George Emerson Brewer

George Emerson Brewer was an American surgeon and urologist, born in Westfield, New York, in 1861 and died in New York in 1939. The son of a physician, he took his medical degree at Harvard in 1885, worked at the Columbia Hospital for Women and Johns Hopkins Hospital, and from 1887 practised in New York City while teaching at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served as attending surgeon at the Roosevelt and Presbyterian Hospitals, founded and first led the Society of Clinical Surgery, and later presided over the American Surgical Association. His name survives in the eponymous Brewer infarcts of the kidney. In the First World War he directed Base Hospital 2 at Etretat in France and later advised the American Expeditionary Force as a consulting surgeon. After retiring he studied somatic anthropology.