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Keen: The First US Surgeon
Keen is most known for his title as the first U.S. surgeon to successfully remove a brain tumor in 1888. Keen gained a lot of attention for advanced neurosurgical procedures including drainage of cerebral ventricles in 1889 (Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences). In 1893, Keen partnered with another U.S. surgeon named Joseph Bryant in removing the left upper jaw of U.S. president Grover Cleveland. Keen Also saw President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when his paralytic illness started severely impacting him (Snac). Keen is one of the first physician/doctor in the world to learn and practice the antiseptic surgical technique. Keen notice while he worked as a surgeon in the military that the majority of the amputees that he saw turned to be
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