Ephraim Cutter
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Born | Woburn, Massachusetts | September 1, 1832
Died | April 25, 1917 West Falmouth, Massachusetts | (aged 84)
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Occupation(s) | Physician, inventor |
Spouses | Rebecca Smith
(m. 1856; died 1899)Anna L. Davidson (m. 1901) |
Children | 9 |
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Ephraim Cutter (September 1, 1832 โ April 25, 1917) was a United States physician and inventor. He was a pioneer of laryngology in the United States and discovered the tuberculosis cattle test in 1894.
Early life
Ephraim Cutter was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on September 1, 1832.[1] After preparing for college at Warren Academy[2] in Woburn,[3] he graduated from Yale University in 1852 (A.B.).
After teaching for a year at Warren Academy, he began his medical studies, eventually getting M.D. degrees from Harvard (1856), and the University of Pennsylvania (1857).[3]
Career
He practiced medicine in Woburn until 1875, in Cambridge and Boston until 1881, when he moved to New York and practiced there (1881โ1901).[2]
He invented a large number of surgical instruments; contributed over 400 articles to literature on scientific subjects, including microscopic medicine, laryngology, chronic diseases, and general medicine; and became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1856, and of the American Medical Association in 1871.
He was a pioneer of laryngology in the United States. He studied the morphology of raw beef from 1854 and discovered the tuberculosis cattle test in 1894. He made investigations into electrotherapeutics, in 1871 demonstrating that galvanic currents could reach deep into the body.[3] In his later career, he took an interest in nutrition as well as cancer.[2]
In 1901, he retired and moved to West Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Personal life
He married twice: in 1856, he married Rebecca Smith, with whom he had nine children; she died in 1899, and in 1901 he married Anna L. Davidson, who survived him.[3]
He was deacon and clerk of the First Congregational Church in Woburn from 1864 to 1874. With his first wife, he was instrumental in organizing the Church of the Comforter in the Bronx, and was a lay member of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States in 1898. He wrote much on church music.[3]
Ephraim Cutter died at his home in West Falmouth on April 25, 1917.[4]
References
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. III. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 188. Retrieved August 25, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Frederick W. Ashley (1930). "Cutter, Ephraim". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ a b c d e "Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1916-1917" (PDF). Bulletin of Yale University: 263โ266. July 1917.
- ^ "Dr. Ephraim Cutter Dies". Fall River Evening News. Falmouth, Massachusetts. April 26, 1917. p. 7. Retrieved August 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
External links
- Ephraim Cutter (1887). Baked beans: a serio-humorous medical paper. Albany, New York: Burdick & Taylor. p. 1.
- Ephraim Cutter; John Ashburton Cutter (1907). Food: its relations to health and disease. Gazette Publishing. Written in collaboration with his son.
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