Joe Vincent Meigs [SEP] place of birth
Joe Vincent Meigs
Joe Vincent Meigs (24 October 1892, Lowell, Massachusetts – 1963), was an American obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Meigs was a grandson of Captain Joe Vincent Meigs, who invented an experimental steam monorail known as the Meigs single-track elevated railroad.
Meigs syndrome is named after him.
See also.
- Mary Ann Vincent
his Wertheim hysterectomies. The procedure was later improved by Joe Vincent Meigs, after he visited Bonney in 1933 and who also commended Bonney for his work.
In 1949, Bonney reported a 40% cure rate from his Wertheim's hysterectomies.
Surgical career Organ-preservation.
Bonney was a strong proponent for organ-conservation, including preserving the ovaries using techniques in ovarian cystectomy in the case of ovarian cysts and played a pioneer role in the reintroduction of myomectomy-procedures to mainstream surgery in place of radical hysterectomy. At