Lewis Sayre

Lewis Albert Sayre was a leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century. He performed the first operation to cure the hipjoint ankylosis and introduced the method of suspending the patient followed by wrapping the body to correct spine distortions. He was also noted for improving the sanitary conditions in New York and stopping the spread of cholera from the incoming ships. Sayre was a principal founder of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and of the American Medical Association, to which he was elected vicepresident in 1866 and president in 1880.

Sayre was born in Bottle Hill , in Morris County, New Jersey in a prosperous farmer family. His father died when Lewis was only 10, and the boy was raised by his uncle, a banker in Lexington, Kentucky. Sayre graduated from the Transylvania University in Lexington in 1839 and then studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons . He graduated in 18423 and was at once hired as a surgeon by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1853 he was appointed surgeon to the Bellevue Hospital, and in 1859 surgeon to the Charity Hospital on Blackwells Island. Of the latter institution he became consulting surgeon in 1873.

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