Biographical sketch: Nathaniel Allison, 1876-1932

Abstract

This biographical sketch of Nathaniel Allison corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Symposium on Arthroplasty: Arthroplasty: Experimental and Clinical Methods, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1120-3 .

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Nathaniel Allison, MD is shown ca 1911. Reprinted with permission of the Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine.

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Nathaniel Allison is shown in the operating room, ca 1911. Reprinted with permission of the Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine.

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Dr. Allison is shown with the Washington University surgical staff of 1920. Front row (seated) left to right: Vilray Papin Blair (plastic surgery), R. Walter Mills, Evarts A. Graham (chief of surgery), Nathaniel Allison, Ernest Sachs (first professor of neurosurgery). Second row left to right: James A. Brown, Sherwood Moore (first head of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology), John R. Caulk, Barney Brooks, Harry William Bond, B.Y. Alvis, Meyer Wiener, Archer O’Reilly. Back row left to right: Francis H. Straus, Glover H. Copher, George W. Belcher, Earl Padgett, Bransford Adelsberger, Edwin P. Lehman. Reprinted with permission of the Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine.