Howard Atwood Kelly

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Howard A. Kelly
Born(1858-02-20)February 20, 1858
Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJanuary 12, 1943(1943-01-12) (aged 84)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA,MD)
Occupations
RelativesDora Lewis (sister)[2]
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Howard Atwood Kelly (February 20, 1858 – January 12, 1943) was an American gynecologist. He obtained his B.A. degree and M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He, William Osler, William Halsted, and William Welch together are known as the "Big Four", the founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.[3] He is credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty by developing new surgical approaches to gynecological diseases and pathological research.[4] He also developed several medical innovations, including the improved cystoscope, Kelly's clamp, Kelly's speculum, and Kelly's forceps. Because Kelly was a famous prohibitionist and Fundamentalist Christian, many of his contemporaries expressed skepticism towards his medical professionalism.[3]

  1. ^ Barker L. F. (February 1943). "Obituary: Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly". Science. 97 (2512): 176–7. Bibcode:1943Sci....97..176B. doi:10.1126/science.97.2512.176. PMID 17809628.
  2. ^ Emma St. Clair Nichols Whitney (1891). Michael Hillegas and His Descendants. Press of M. E. Miller.
  3. ^ a b Roberts CS (October 2010). "H. L. Mencken and the four doctors: Osler, Halsted, Welch, and Kelly". Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 23 (4): 377–388. doi:10.1080/08998280.2010.11928657. PMC 2943453. PMID 20944761.
  4. ^ Johns Hopkins Medicine: The Four Founding Professors Archived March 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.