Alfred Washington Adson

Alfred Washington Adson (March 13, 1887 – November 12, 1951) was an American physician and surgeon.[1] He was in medical practice with the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, Minnesota. He was associated with the development of the Section of Neurological Surgery which was first established at Mayo in 1919. He functioned as its chair until 1946. He undertook pioneering neurosurgery and gave his name to a medical condition, a medical sign, a medical diagnostic manoeuvre, and medical instruments.[2][3]

Biography

Alfred Adson was born at Terril, Iowa. His parents Anna B. Adson (1869-1955) and Martin Adson (1864-1955) were both Norwegian immigrant. Adson attained his BSc in 1912 at the University of Nebraska, his M.D. in 1914 from the University of Pennsylvania and MA. in 1918 from the University of Nebraska. As a fellow in surgery he entered the Mayo clinic in July 1914 where he was invited to develop a section of neurological surgery. He became a substantive member of staff on January 1, 1917. He was a First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the US Army in the First World War. After the war he continued to be head of the Section of Neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic until 1946 when he was appointed to senior consultant in the same section.[4][5]

Adson undertook innovative neurosurgery for the treatment of glossopharyngeal neuralgia, Raynaud’s Disease, Hirschsprung's disease and for essential hypertension.[6] He was a colonel in the US Army Medical Reserve Corps and a fellow of The American College of Surgeons and a member of the International Neurological Association, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases Inc., the Society of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Western Surgical Association, the Central Neuropsychiatric Association and the Minnesota Society of Neurology and Psychiatry.[4][7]

He received in 1948 an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Nebraska and one from St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.[4][8]

He was president of the Society of Neurological Surgeons in 1932 and 1933, of the Minnesota State Medical Association in 1937, the Minnesota State Board of Medical Examiners in 1938 and 1943, the Minnesota Neurological Society in 1941, and of the North Central Medical Conference in 1948.[4]

Personal life

He married Lora G. Smith on 3, August 1911. They had three children: William W. Adson, Mary L. Adson and Martin Adson, head of a section of surgery in the Mayo Clinic.[4]

Selected works

Eponymous attributes

References

  1. ↑ Ennersen, Ole Daniel. "Alfred Washington Adson". Whonamedit. Retrieved 19 Mar 2013.
  2. ↑ Winchell McK. Craig, M.D. (March 1952). "Alfred Washington Adson—Pioneer Neurosurgeon". Journal of Neurosurgery. Vol. 9. No. 2. Pages 117-123. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Christoph J Griessenauer; et al. (October 2013). "Alfred W. Adson: His contributions to surgery for tumors of the spine and spinal cord in the context of spinal tumor surgery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (PDF). Journal of neurosurgery. Spine 19(6). DOI: 10.3171/2013.9.SPINE13220. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Alfred W. Adson". Deceased Members Directory. Society of Neurological surgeons. Retrieved 19 Mar 2013.
  5. ↑ Clark W. Nelson (July 1994). "75th Anniversary of Neurosurgery at Mayo". Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Volume 69, Issue 7, Page 612. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  6. ↑ Mostoff, Sayeed Behrooz (Jan 2005). Who's Who in Orthopaedics. Springer Verlag. pp. 1–2. ISBN 1852337869.
  7. ↑ "History – About ABNS". American Board of Neurological Surgery. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Alfred Washington Adson, Doctor of Science, 1948" (PDF). University of Nebraska. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Enersen, Ole Daniel. "Whonamedit". Retrieved 19 Mar 2013.

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