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Sayre, Lewis Albert 1820-

Surgeon; born in Battle Hill (now Madison), N. J., Feb. 29, 1820; graduated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1839, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1842, when he became prosecutor to the Professor of Surgery in that college, which he held till 1852; was surgeon in Bellevue Hospital in 1853-73; the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island in 1859-73; and consulting surgeon in both hospitals from 1873 till his death. He was the first American surgeon to successfully operate for the hip disease; invented numerous surgical instruments and [79] appliances; introduced new methods of treatment in various diseases, and was author of Practical manual of the treatment of Clubfoot; Spinal disease and Spinal Curvature, etc. He died in New York City, Sept. 21, 1900.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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