Andrews, Edmund
surgeon, was born April 22, 1824, in Putney, Vt. He has filled the place of demonstrator of anatomy at the Rush Medical college of Chicago, and subsequently the chairs of the principles and practice of surgery and of clinical and military surgery in the Chicago Medical college, of which institution he is one of the founders. In 1859 he became surgeon to the Mercy hospital, and during the civil war he served in a similar capacity with the first Illinois light artillery. He is president of the Illinois state medical society and of the Chicago academy of sciences. Dr. Andrews was one of the founders of the Michigan state medical society, and is a trustee of Northwestern university. He is the author of a great number of articles in different branches of surgery which have been published in medical journals and proceedings of the societies to which he belongs. Numerous improvements in surgical apparatus and operations have been made by him; among them is the practical demonstration of the value of free incision, digital exploration, and disinfection of lumbar abscesses, a treatment previously forbidden.