Sandler Adam L, Biswas Arundhati, Goodrich James Tait
Department of Neurological Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University/Montefiore Medical Center; and.
Neurosurg Focus. 2014 Apr;36(4):E21. doi: 10.3171/2014.2.FOCUS13573.
In 1915, faced with 2 patients with large skull defects, W. Wayne Babcock, an obstetrician-gynecologist-turned-general surgeon, operating in a modest North Philadelphia hospital, did something extraordinary: he went to the hospital kitchen to look for a cranial graft. Based heavily on archival and other primary sources, the authors tell the remarkable tale of the "soup bone" cranioplasties of the Samaritan Hospital and place these operations within the context of the early modern American hospital.
