John Wishart (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian surgeon
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Place of Birth: Guelph/Eramosa, Ontario, Canada
About John Wishart (surgeon)
- John Wishart (May 27, 1850 – November 6, 1926) was a Canadian surgeon and pioneer medical educator.
- Wishart was the first professor of surgery at the University of Western Ontario.
- He was a pioneer surgical educator in Canada prior to the Flexner Report.
- Some of his lectures are preserved as student notes by the library at the University of Western Ontario.
- His resignation after 27 years as Professor of Clinical Surgery may have been due to Flexner's negative comments about the school.
- Wishart was a founding fellow of the American College of Surgeons.Wishart was educated at the University of Toronto at the same time as William Osler.
- As a young surgeon in 1874, he assisted Abraham Groves in one of the first operations to use modern aseptic technique.
- In 1886, he performed an appendectomy becoming an early practitioner of that surgery.
- Wishart published early articles regarding several surgical procedures, including nephrectomy and strangulated inguinal herniaAfter leaving the University of Western Ontario, he became the founding surgeon-in-chief at the newly built St Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario.
- Despite being Presbyterian, he had an excellent relationship with the Catholic Sisters of St.
- Joseph who ran the hospital.
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