Hugh Cabot (surgeon)
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August 11, 1872
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| Born | Hugh Cabot August 11, 1872 Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | August 15, 1945 (aged 73) Ellsworth, Maine, U.S. |
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Hugh Cabot (August 11, 1872 – August 15, 1945) was an American surgeon and educator who was dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and a member of the staff at the Mayo Clinic. He was a specialist in genitourinary surgery and an advocate of group health care cooperatives.
Cabot was born in Beverly Farms on August 11, 1872. He was the youngest of seven sons born to James Elliot Cabot and Elizabeth Dwight Cabot. His grandfathers were Samuel Cabot Jr. and Edmund Dwight.[1] His brother, Richard Clarke Cabot, was also a noted physician.[2] He prepared for college at Roxbury Latin School and graduated from Harvard College in 1894.[1]
Early career
Cabot graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1898 and interned at Massachusetts General Hospital. From 1899 to 1904, he was an assistant to his cousin, Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot. From 1900 to 1919, he was a visiting surgeon at New England Baptist Hospital. He was also a visiting surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1902 to 1919, spending a decade in the outpatient department before moving to the genitourinary department in 1912.[1]
World War I
In May 1916, Cabot was the chief surgeon of the third Harvard Surgical Unit, a volunteer contingent of medical personnel from Harvard who provided medical assistance to the British Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I.[3] He served for six months and was succeeded by Dr. D. F. Jones in September 1916. In December 1916, the Harvard Corporation voted to have Cabot lead the unit for the remainder of the war.[4] In 1919, he was made a companion of the Order of the Bath and the Order of St Michael and St George by George V for his service in France.[5] The Harvard Surgical Unit was demobilized the British War Department on January 8, 1919 and returned to the United States on January 30.[6]
University of Michigan
In 1919, Victor C. Vaughan hired Cabot to lead the surgery department at the University of Michigan Medical School. When Vaughan resigned in 1921, Cabot succeeded him as dean.[7] In 1925, he was elected president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.[8] In 1930, a faculty revolt led president Alexander Grant Ruthven to request that Cabot step down. Cabot refused and on February 8, 1930, the Regents of the University of Michigan voted to remove him as dean.[9] He was succeeded by Frederick Amasa Coller.[10]