POST, Philip Wright (1766 – 1828)
1766 – 1828
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1814 CE
#2934
A case of carotid aneurism successfully treated.
Post, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at Columbia College, New York, was the first in America to ligate the common carotid artery for aneurysmal disease.
1817 CE
#2939
Case of brachial aneurism, cured by tying the subclavian artery above the clavicle.
Post was the first successfully to ligate the subclavian artery outside the scaleni (Sept. 8, 1817).