Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary/Alberta Public Laboratories-Alberta Children's Hospital Site, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Clin Anat. 2019 Jul;32(5):661-671. doi: 10.1002/ca.23365. Epub 2019 Mar 20.
David Hayes Agnew began his career as a country doctor in rural Pennsylvania in 1838. After a 3-year diversion as a partner in a large ironworks business that went bankrupt in 1846, Agnew, seriously in debt, returned to the medical profession in Cochranville, PA, hoping to focus on surgery. Recognizing that he needed to improve his knowledge of anatomy, he purchased cadavers from Philadelphia and dissected at home in his spare time. When he was finished dissecting, he covertly moved bodies to a nearby pond so he could later collect skeletons after eels had removed the remaining soft tissues. This worked well until Agnew and the townspeople found out that a local fisherman, known for selling the most delicious eels, fished exclusively from this pond. Agnew was asked to leave Cochranville and he moved to Philadelphia, where he purchased the Philadelphia School of Anatomy and worked as a surgeon at Blockley Hospital. During the Civil War, he became renowned for his ability to manage gunshot wounds. Agnew was upwardly mobile in Philadelphia, becoming one of America's most prominent 19th-century academic surgeons. When President James Garfield was shot by an assassin, Agnew was called to care for him. When he retired from his position as the John Rhea Barton Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, the medical students hired the famous American realist painter, Thomas Eakins, to produce The Agnew Clinic, which became one of the artist's two most important paintings. Clin. Anat. 32:661-671, 2019. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
大卫·海耶斯·阿格纽（David Hayes Agnew）于 1838 年在宾夕法尼亚州的农村开始了他的乡村医生生涯。1846 年，他与一家大型炼铁厂的合伙人合作了 3 年，但这家炼铁厂破产了，阿格纽负债累累，回到宾夕法尼亚州科克伦维尔（Cochranville）从事医疗行业，希望专注于外科手术。他意识到自己需要提高解剖学知识，于是从费城购买了尸体，并在业余时间在家里进行解剖。当他解剖完后，他偷偷地将尸体移到附近的池塘里，以便后来在鳗鱼去除剩余的软组织后收集骨骼。这种方法效果很好，直到阿格纽和镇民发现当地一位以出售最美味鳗鱼而闻名的渔夫专门从这个池塘里捕鱼。阿格纽被要求离开科克伦维尔，他搬到了费城，在那里他购买了费城解剖学校，并在布洛克利医院（Blockley Hospital）担任外科医生。在内战期间，他因能够处理枪伤而声名鹊起。阿格纽在费城地位上升，成为美国 19 世纪最杰出的学术外科医生之一。当总统詹姆斯·加菲尔德（James Garfield）被刺客枪击时，阿格纽被召唤来照顾他。当他从宾夕法尼亚大学约翰·雷亚·巴顿（John Rhea Barton）外科学教授的职位上退休时，医学生们聘请了著名的美国现实主义画家托马斯·伊肯斯（Thomas Eakins）创作《阿格纽诊所》（The Agnew Clinic），这成为该艺术家最重要的两幅画作之一。临床解剖学 32:661-671,2019. Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
