Ephraim Cutter
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Ephraim Cutter | |
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| Born | September 1, 1832 Woburn, Massachusetts |
| Died | April 25, 1917 (aged 84) West Falmouth, Massachusetts |
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| Occupations | Physician, inventor |
| Spouses | Rebecca Smith
(m. 1856; died 1899)Anna L. Davidson (m. 1901) |
| Children | 9 |
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Ephraim Cutter (September 1, 1832 – April 25, 1917) was a United States physician and inventor. He was a pioneer of laryngology in the United States and discovered the tuberculosis cattle test in 1894.
Ephraim Cutter was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on September 1, 1832.[1] After preparing for college at Warren Academy[2] in Woburn,[3] he graduated from Yale University in 1852 (A.B.).
After teaching for a year at Warren Academy, he began his medical studies, eventually getting M.D. degrees from Harvard (1856), and the University of Pennsylvania (1857).[3]
Career
He practiced medicine in Woburn until 1875, in Cambridge and Boston until 1881, when he moved to New York and practiced there (1881–1901).[2]
He invented a large number of surgical instruments; contributed over 400 articles to literature on scientific subjects, including microscopic medicine, laryngology, chronic diseases, and general medicine; and became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1856, and of the American Medical Association in 1871.
He was a pioneer of laryngology in the United States. He studied the morphology of raw beef from 1854 and discovered the tuberculosis cattle test in 1894. He made investigations into electrotherapeutics, in 1871 demonstrating that galvanic currents could reach deep into the body.[3] In his later career, he took an interest in nutrition as well as cancer.[2]
In 1901, he retired and moved to West Falmouth, Massachusetts.
