Local Chemotherapy with Primary Closure of Septic Wounds by Means of Drainage and Irrigation Cannulae: M. N. Smith-Petersen MD (1886–1953), Carroll B. Larson MD, Williams Cochran MD The 12th President of the AAOS 1943 (MNS-P)

摘要

Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen was born in Grimstad, Norway, of a prominent merchant marine family in 1886 [2]. He came to the States with his mother in 1903 and, initially unable to speak English, completed high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1906. He then attended the University of Chicago (1906–07) and graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1910) and the Harvard Medical School (1914) [4]. He completed his surgical internship under Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, then his postgraduate orthopaedic training under Dr. Elliott Gray Brackett, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and became his assistant in practice 1917. In 1922 Dr. Smith-Petersen entered private practice in Boston, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He continued working there with a heavy clinic and operating schedule until shortly before his death from a brief illness in 1953 at the age of 67.