Rutkow I M
Freehold Area Hospital, N.J.
Surgery. 1988 Jan;103(1):45-55.
John Syng Dorsey is one of the unsung heroes of American surgery. In 1811 he performed this country's first successful ligation of the external iliac artery, for a massive aneurysm in the right groin. Two years later he wrote America's first systematic textbook of surgery. In addition, he held the professorial chairs of Materia Medica and Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania. All this was accomplished in a life that ended at 35 years. The memory of Dorsey is dimmed by the passage of time, but his bold and innovative approach to surgical problems is a stirring chapter in the history of American surgery. Through research with the use of primary archival and secondary source material in the form of previously unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, and background information, a biographical sketch is presented.
约翰·辛格·多尔西是美国外科学领域一位默默无名的英雄。1811年，他为一名右侧腹股沟部巨大动脉瘤患者成功实施了美国首例髂外动脉结扎术。两年后，他撰写了美国第一本系统的外科学教科书。此外，他还担任过宾夕法尼亚大学的药物学和解剖学教授职位。这一切都是在他年仅35岁的一生中完成的。随着时间的流逝，多尔西已渐渐被人遗忘，但他对外科问题大胆创新的解决方法却是美国外科史上激动人心的一章。通过研究未发表的手稿、书信及背景资料等一手档案和二手资料，本文呈现了他的生平事迹。
