KELLY Howard(1858-1943)

Howard Atwood KELLY
(1858-1943)


Although J. Marion Sims (1813-1883) is often called the "father of American Gynecology", Kelly was its pre-eminent practitioner and teacher from 1890-1920.

As the first professor of OBGYN at Johns Hopkins, he created a model for post-graduate training that persists to this day. The list of his residents reads like a Who's Who of American OBGYN, and includes such luminaries as J.Whitridge Williams (1866-1931). He authored numerous books on surgery, and almost 500 articles.

A complex man: bold and inventive surgeon; inspirational mentor; great scholar, linguist and writer; entrepreneur and philanthropist; crusading Christian moralist. He collected antiquarian books, fungi, and kept live snakes in his study. He founded 2 private hospitals, and was a controversial promoter of radium therapy.


1898-KELLY-Operative-Gyn-V-1-title

Operative Gynecology
1898


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1905-KELLY-HURDON-Vermiform-Appendix-title

The Vermiform Appendix
and its Diseases
1905


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1907-KELLY-NOBLE-Gyn-Abd-Surg-V-1-title

Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery
1907


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1908-KELLY-Medical-Gynecology-title

Medical Gynecology
1908


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1909-KELLY-CULLEN-Myomata-Uterus-title

Myomata of the Uterus
1909


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1912-KELLY-Cyclopedia-Am-Med-Bio-V-2-title

A Cyclopedia of American
Medical Biography
1912

1914-KELLY-BURNAM-Dis-Kidneys-Ureters-Bladder-V-1-title

Diseases of the Kidneys,
Ureters and Bladder
1914


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1920-KELLY-BURRAGE-Am-Med-Bio-title

American Medical Biographies
1920


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