Evan O'Neill Kane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American surgeon
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1861
Place of Birth: Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 01-Apr-1932
Profession: surgeon
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Evan O'Neill Kane
- Evan O'Neill Kane (April 6, 1861 – April 1, 1932) was an American physician and surgeon from the 1880s to the early 1930s who served as chief of surgery at Kane Summit Hospital in Kane, Pennsylvania.
- He was a significant contributor in his day to railway surgery; that is, the medical and managerial practices directed toward occupational health and accident-related trauma surgery for railroad workers.
- Kane was also a well published contributor of innovations in surgical procedures and equipment.
- including asbestos bandages, mica windows for brain surgery, and multiple site hypodermoclysis. Kane was convinced that particular surgeries need not involve general anesthesia.
- He is most well known, both in his own time and today, for demonstrating this by performing self-surgery in 1921 to remove his own appendix under local anesthetic.
- In 1932 at age 70, he very publicly again performed self-surgery to repair a hernia.
- Some of Kane’s practices were idiosyncratic.
- For instance, he left a small inked, coded signature beside the incisions of some of his surgical patients.
- He also proposed tattooing mothers and newborn babies with matching marks to avoid accidental mix ups. Kane was a member of a notable Pennsylvania family that included several physicians (including his mother) that had earlier given its name to both their community and his primary hospital of practice; their family home, Anoatok, is now on the National Registry of Historic places.
- Kane was also in the public eye in 1931 when he testified at the sensational trial of his son, Elisha Kent Kane III, a college professor, who was acquitted of murder in Elizabeth City County, Virginia after the drowning death of his wife during their trip to a Back River Light beach.
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