{"id":2287,"date":"2013-05-22T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2015-07-08T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:17:33","slug":"wyeth-john-allen-1845-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"WYETH, JOHN ALLEN, 1845-1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician; pioneer\u00a0medical educator; author. Born&#8211; May 26, 1845, in Missionary Station, Marshall, Ala. Parents&#8211; Louis Weiss and Euphemia (Allen) Wyeth. Married&#8211; Florence Nightingale Sims, April 10, 1886. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211; Marguerite Chalifoux, November 15, 1918. Education&#8211; LaGrange Military Academy, Ala., 1861; University of Louisville, M.D., 1869; further studies with James M. Jackson, Guntersville; at Belleview Medical College, New York City; London; Paris; Berlin; Vienna. Joined the Confederate Army as a Private in 1862 at the age of seventeen; in sixteen engagements; prisoner of war \u00a0for fifteen months. Visiting and consulting surgeon, New York, 1878-1897; founded New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital (first postgraduate medical school in United States), 1881; senior professor of surgery and president, 1893-1922. The Mayo Brothers trained at Polyclinic and modeled their clinic\u00a0after it. \u00a0Member and President, American Medical Association; New York Academy of Medicine; Southern Society of New York. Pioneered several surgical and medical treatment techniques; developed &#8220;Wyeth&#8217;s Method&#8221;&#8211;bloodless amputation and shoulder and hip joints. Awarded honorary degrees by the University of Alabama and the University of Maryland. Died March 8, 1922.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 41.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American Party and the Great Republic. S.l.; s.n., 1915.<\/p>\n<p>Essays in Surgical Anatomy and Surgery. New York; W. Wood, 1879.<\/p>\n<p>General Robert E. Lee; Commemorative Address Before the New York Southern Society on the Anniversary of the Great Commander&#8217;s Birth, January 19, 1906. New York; Press of Unz and Co., 1906.<\/p>\n<p>A Handbook of Medical and Surgical Reference. New York; W. Wood &amp; Co., 1873.<\/p>\n<p>History of LaGrange Military Academy and the Cadet Corps, 1857-62, LaGrange College, 1830-57. New York; Brewer Press, 1907.<\/p>\n<p>That Devil Forrest:\u00a0 The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York; Harper &amp; Brothers, 1899. (Several later editions).<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel J. Wyeth and the Struggle for Oregon. S.l.; s.n., 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Surgery. New York; Marion Sims Wyeth, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>A Textbook on Surgery; General, Operative, and Mechanical. New York; D. Appleton, 1887.<\/p>\n<p>With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon, John Allen Wyeth. New York; Harper &amp; Brothers, 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician; pioneer\u00a0medical educator; author. Born&#8211; May 26, 1845, in Missionary Station, Marshall, Ala. Parents&#8211; Louis Weiss and Euphemia (Allen) Wyeth. Married&#8211; Florence Nightingale Sims, April 10, 1886. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211; Marguerite Chalifoux, November 15, 1918. Education&#8211; LaGrange Military Academy, Ala., 1861; University of Louisville, M.D., 1869; further studies with James M. 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