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Arthur Wilbum Allen
American surgeon, 1887-1958.
Associated eponyms:
Buerger-Allen exercises
Exercises used to stimulate circulation in patients with arterial insufficiency of the lower limbs.
Biography:
Allen was one of the master abdominal surgeons of the twentiecht century. In 1947 he was the President of the American College of Surgeons.
"there was no other period in my life in which I learned more and none that molded my life more firmly."
The surgeon Claude Emerson Welch (1906-1996) who worked with Allen for five years.
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