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Howard Atwood Kelly
American academic and gynecologist
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1858
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1943
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
occupation: surgeon, writer, gynaecologist, university teacher

Howard Atwood Kelly (February 20, 1858 – January 12, 1943), M.D., was an American gynecologist. He obtained his B.A. degree and M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He, William Osler, William Halsted, and William Welch together are known as the "Big Four", the founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is credited with establishing gynecology as a specialty by developing new surgical approaches to gynecological diseases and pathological research. He also developed several medical innovations, including the improved cystoscope, Kelly's clamp, Kelly's speculum, and Kelly's forceps. Because Kelly was a famous prohibitionist and Fundamentalist Christian, many of his contemporaries expressed skepticism towards his medical professionalism.
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1A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography
first edition of an encyclopedia by Howard A. Kelly
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author: Howard Atwood Kelly
1912