MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
6-25-2012
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2551. First day of issue cover for stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first successful ovariotomy, performed by Ephraim McDowell. Includes a brief printed history of the surgery, as well as a printed letter from the Danville, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce announcing the commemorative stamp.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Surgery | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "McDowell, Ephraim, 1771-1830 - Relating to (SC 2551)" (2012). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 2142.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2142
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu