hugh morriston davies first dissection lobectomy in 1912 hugh morriston davies 18791965 long before anybody else performed the first anatomic dissection lobectomy for a tumor of the lung in 1912 by replacing the hilar massligationsuture technique he was decades ahead of his time and had his patient not died 8 days after the operation he would have preceded evarts grahams first lung resection for cancer by 21 years an allaround chest physician and surgeon in one he had introduced chest radiography and positivepressure intratracheal anesthesia the year before thus making the diagnosis and operation of this lung cancer possible he concluded that lung cancer was accessible to surgical removal on condition of an early diagnosis by destiny a surgeon as well as a physician morriston davies was probably the earliest advocate of interdisciplinary teamwork in thoracic medicine