John Hooker Packard,
M.D.
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Name: John Hooker
Packard
Death date: May 20, 1907
Place of death: Philadelphia, PA
Type of practice: Allopath
Journal of the American Medical Association |
John H. Packard,
M.D., one of the most prominent American
surgeons of the last part of the 19th Century and a pioneer
of modern American surgery, was born in Philadelphia in
1832. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School in 1853, he spent 1.5 yr visiting the great
Paris hospitals and another 18 months as a resident
physician at the Philadelphia's University Hospital. Until
his retirement in 1896, he practiced surgery in various
Philadelphia hospitals and taught surgery, pathology, and
anatomy at the medical school. He served as
acting assistant surgeon
in two Union Army hospitals during the Civil War. He founded
or was an active member of many prestigious medical,
surgical, and pathological societies, several of which still
exist today.
Among Dr.
Packard's numerous publications, two popular
surgical textbooks stand out: A
Manual of Minor Surgery (1863),
adopted by the US Army, and a Handbook of Operative Surgery (1870). Dr. Packard was the
chief editor of the first American edition of Holmes
System of Surgery
published in 1882.
