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PROF. WILLIAM WILLIAMS KEEN, who died on June 7 at the age of ninety-five years, gained his reputation as a surgeon during the American Civil War, and for a period of more than fifty years thereafter was recognised as the most outstanding figure in American surgery. He was a contemporary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and like him had uncommon gifts of personality and scholarship. His textbook on surgery enjoyed a world-wide reputation for many years, and made his name known far beyond the University of Pennsylvania, in which he taught, and the city of Philadelphia, in which he practised.
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Prof. W. W. Keen. Nature 130, 195 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130195a0
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