MacEwen, William

James Tait Goodrich

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-385157-4.00950-7

MacEwen, William

James Tait Goodrich

Neurological Surgery

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William MacEwen (1848-1924) pioneered a number of innovative techniques in brain surgery at the turn of the twentieth century. An early advocate of Joseph Lister's principles of antisepsis, he rapidly adopted these techniques to his surgical practice leading to a marked reduction in patient morbidity and infection. MacEwen successfully used the cerebral localization principles to determine where to operate, leading him to publish a landmark work in 1893 on pyogenic infections of the brain. That book was based on antiseptic principles, cerebral localization, and neurological diagnosis, a work that had an enormous influence on the practice of brain surgery.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	952-953
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9780123851574
ISBN (Print)	9780123851581
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385157-4.00950-7
State	Published - Jan 1 2014

Keywords

Antisepsis
Brain surgery
Broca, Pierre Paul
Charcot, Jean-Martin
Cushing, Harvey
Dandy, Walter
Ferrier, David
Horsley, Victor
Intracerebral abscess
Intubation
Krause, Fedor V.
Lister, Joseph
MacEwen, William
MacLeod, George
Neurosurgery
Oppenheim, Hermann

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Medicine(all)

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