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David Hayes Agnew
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon, anatomist, and educator. During the American Civil War he worked as a surgeon at Satterlee General Hospital, Hestonville Military Hospital, and as consulting surgeon to a staff of 47 resident physicians at Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia. He purchased and taught at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy and founded the Philadelphia School of Operative Anatomy. He worked as a surgeon at the Philadelphia General Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, Wills Eye Hospital, and Orthopedic Hospital.
He held multiple academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania including professor of clinical surgery, professor of principles and practices of surgery, professor emeritus of surgery, and honorary professor of clinical surgery. He served as president of several medical societies including the American Surgical Association and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He was the chief surgeon in attendance after the shooting of President James A. Garfield.
The Agnew Clinic painting by Thomas Eakins was commissioned in 1889 to commemorate Agnew's retirement from the University of Pennsylvania.
Agnew was born on November 24, 1818, in Nobleville, Pennsylvania, (present-day Christiana, Pennsylvania), to Robert Agnew and Agnes Noble.
In 1833, he entered Jefferson College, but left in 1834 and enrolled in Newark College in Newark, Delaware, where his cousin John Holmes Agnew was a professor of languages. Agnew left Newark College after just one year when his cousin left and Agnew returned home to study medicine under his father. He entered the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1836 and graduated with an M.D. degree on April 6, 1838.
He received an A.M. and LL.D. degree from Princeton University and a LL.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He returned to Nobleville to help his father in his clinic and worked there for two years. In 1843, he partnered with his brothers-in-law to form an iron foundry business named Irwin & Agnew. The business failed in 1846 leaving him in debt and he returned to the practice of medicine in Cochranville, Pennsylvania. He wanted to focus on surgery and acquired cadavers from Philadelphia to practice his dissection technique.
He caused a scandal in town when he left the used cadavers in a nearby pond to allow eels to consume the soft tissue and leave the skeletons for medical use. He was asked to leave Cochranville and moved to Philadelphia after it was revealed that eels sold in town for human consumption were sourced from that pond.
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David Hayes Agnew
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon, anatomist, and educator. During the American Civil War he worked as a surgeon at Satterlee General Hospital, Hestonville Military Hospital, and as consulting surgeon to a staff of 47 resident physicians at Mower General Hospital in Philadelphia. He purchased and taught at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy and founded the Philadelphia School of Operative Anatomy. He worked as a surgeon at the Philadelphia General Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, Wills Eye Hospital, and Orthopedic Hospital.
He held multiple academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania including professor of clinical surgery, professor of principles and practices of surgery, professor emeritus of surgery, and honorary professor of clinical surgery. He served as president of several medical societies including the American Surgical Association and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He was the chief surgeon in attendance after the shooting of President James A. Garfield.
The Agnew Clinic painting by Thomas Eakins was commissioned in 1889 to commemorate Agnew's retirement from the University of Pennsylvania.
Agnew was born on November 24, 1818, in Nobleville, Pennsylvania, (present-day Christiana, Pennsylvania), to Robert Agnew and Agnes Noble.
In 1833, he entered Jefferson College, but left in 1834 and enrolled in Newark College in Newark, Delaware, where his cousin John Holmes Agnew was a professor of languages. Agnew left Newark College after just one year when his cousin left and Agnew returned home to study medicine under his father. He entered the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1836 and graduated with an M.D. degree on April 6, 1838.
He received an A.M. and LL.D. degree from Princeton University and a LL.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He returned to Nobleville to help his father in his clinic and worked there for two years. In 1843, he partnered with his brothers-in-law to form an iron foundry business named Irwin & Agnew. The business failed in 1846 leaving him in debt and he returned to the practice of medicine in Cochranville, Pennsylvania. He wanted to focus on surgery and acquired cadavers from Philadelphia to practice his dissection technique.
He caused a scandal in town when he left the used cadavers in a nearby pond to allow eels to consume the soft tissue and leave the skeletons for medical use. He was asked to leave Cochranville and moved to Philadelphia after it was revealed that eels sold in town for human consumption were sourced from that pond.