Murphy, J. B.

1857 – 1916

American surgeon notable for advances in abdominal surgery, president of American Medical Association

• Appendicitis
• Operative surgery of the gall tracts
• Operative surgery of the gall tracts with original report of twenty successful cholecystenterostomies by means of the anastomosis button
• Tuberculosis of the female genitalia and peritoneum
• Tuberculosis of the testicle
• Arthroplasty
• Neurological surgery
• Original research in abdominal surgery
• Report on thirty-two cases of perineal prostatectomy
• Some further advances in renal surgery
• Surgery of the lung
• The surgical clinics of John B. Murphy, M.D., at Mercy hospital Chicago ..