born december wisconsin august michigan american physician abdominal surgeon noted advocating early surgical intervention murphy button murphy murphy punch murphy test bone best remembered eponymous clinical sign evaluating patients acute career spanned general surgery surgery helped gain international prominence surgical profession founder called surgical genius generation course career renowned surgeon teacher author addition general surgical operations performed described innovative procedures plastic surgery surgery surgery ventured techniques bone life death murphy born log cabin wisconsin parents irish immigrants escaped potato famine later raised farm striking figure tall strong red beard murphy died heart disease michigan having ill months staying grand hotel attended wife suffered years death attributed days prior death correctly predicted findings autopsy think plaques education training murphy attended public school graduated obtained doctorate entered eighteen month practiced briefly performed practical work universities hospitals vienna munich berlin time spent working vienna introduced techniques use today academic career europe returned chicago start general practice quickly recognized leader abdominal surgery appointed lecturer surgery end elected professor surgery named professor clinical surgery currently acclaimed bone surgery held position worked returned taught death surgeon chief held commission mercy developed following wet operated audience physicians world attended sessions method wider lectures demonstrations print publication secretary words printed surgical chicago surgical chicago subsequently surgical north america continue publication notable experiences early career doctors summoned scene community area chicago dressed approximately men working bomb thrown chicago police officers leading deaths high profile trial murphy called testify labor unrest leading surrounding events led tradition day labor rallies october assassination attempt united_states president milwaukee wisconsin roosevelt brought chicago asked roosevelt fears bullet wound said roosevelt responded hunted long doctor know kill bull short gun legacy surgical prowess questioned approach practice considered segment professional colleagues work highly regarded contemporaries europe chicago early advocate intervention removal appendix cases thoughts controversial time conservative management having met skepticism presentation gathered evidence cases presented opinions authority subject known following murphy button mechanical device murphy punch punch angle cases murphy sign sign murphy test test deep seated muscular cases murphy administration patients bone common commercial steel instrument head procedures murphy developed eponymous button preferred treatment acute equally suitable developed experimental animal laboratory barn house week developing dog murphy button credited forerunner modern end end instrument having method choice operations united_states years murphy person successfully unite severed gunshot wound murphy united_states induce artificial collapse lung treatment tuberculosis pioneered bone techniques management especially reconstruction considered surgical intervention cancer performance end end hollow performed arguably tract founding member honors great direction pope june awarded doctor science england murphy flamboyant consequent colleagues kept early membership professional associations eventually elected president realized mistake granted murphy membership public elementary school named honor john murphy public school located community area northwest chicago opened
John Benjamin Murphy