Joseph H. FobesJoseph H. Fobes

Birth: October 29, 1878, Brooklyn, NY Death: May 1964, New Jersey NYMC History: Professor of Sugery (1928 - 1963) Head of Graduate Surgery (1940 - 1959) President, Board of Governors of the Alumni Association (1941 - 1944) Professor of Neurological Surgery (1931 - 1933) Professor of Gynecology and Head of the Department (1922 - 1928) Graduated from New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital (1901) Assistant demonstrator of anatomy at the Homeopathic College and later lecturer on pathology and demonstrator of surgery at the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women (n.d.) Editor, Chironian (n.d.)

A Resume of Appendicitis

A Resume of Appendicitis. THIS is a report of 421 cases operated on by a highly specialized technic. These were all personal operations by the author. They included all types of cases as they came. They included all agents. They were operated upon in four different hospitals in the metropolitan area. This shows that they were not selected cases. They were consecutive. The pathologic diagnosis was verified in every cases and ranged all the way from simple catarrhal appendicitis to the acute gangrenous type.