Lyman A. Brewer Papers 1928-1988

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Lyman A. Brewer Papers 1928-1988

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Correspondence, notes and drafts, subject files, reprints, and records of surgical activity documenting the practice, teaching, and authorship of Lyman Brewer.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Brewer, Lyman A.

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Lyman August Brewer III was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1907. He was educated at Amherst and received his medical training at the University of Michigan. Upon his graduation in 1932 Brewer spent several years learning thoracic surgery under the guidance of Evarts A. Graham and John Alexander, among others. In the late 1930s he established a practice in Los Angeles with Frank S. Dolley. From 1942 to 1945 Brewer served as a surgeon in the Army Medical Corps in North Africa, It...

Lyman A. Brewer III International Surgical Society

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American association for thoracic surgery

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In 1913 Dr. Willy Meyer, director of surgery at the German Hospital in New York, presented a paper on "Extrathoracic and Intrathoracic Esophagoplasty . . ." at the American Medical Association Annual Meeting. Disappointed by the lack of interest in his topic, Meyer decided to create a venue devoted to exchanging ideas regarding the growing field of thoracic surgery. He began by inviting nineteen local colleagues to his home on February 20, 1917, and founding the New York Society for...