Agnew, Daniel

HAYES, M. D., a distinguished surgeon, born in Lancaster co., Pa., Νον. 24, 1818. He gained a world-wide reputation for his skill in surgery, and when President Garfield was shot he was called as the chief consulting surgeon. He founded the Philadelphia School of Operative Surgery and the Pathological Museum of the Philadelphia Hospital, and after filling several profe orships, was in 1870 appointed Prof. of Operative Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania and in 1871 Prof. of the Principles and Practice of Surgery in that institution, and of Clinical Surgery in the University Hospital. He wrote voluminously on medical subjects, his best work being an exhaustive treatise on operative surgery. Died at Philadelphia, Mar. 22, 1892.