George Ryerson Fowler

Abstract

The Fowler position, widely used in surgery and obstetrics for patient placement, marks a fraction of 19th-century Brooklyn surgeon George Ryerson Fowler's prodigious accomplishments. Fowler was a pioneer who refined the appendectomy, performed the first lung decortication, advocated for sterile techniques, introduced first aid in the US Army, and helped start a precursor to Annals of Surgery. His publications include the first US textbook on appendicitis--ironically, the disease that killed him.

Man and the Environment in Antiquity. On the Origin of Fly Fishing in Europe

“…In Arseneev's (1951: 333-334) 1927 account of travels in the River Amur basin there is an interesting account of an Oroch catching grayling with a fly made of hair from wild boar (Cios, 1998). In Japan artificial flies were sold in the 1600s (Kelleher & Ishimura, 2011). These cases cannot be considered as cultural imports from Europe.…”