# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-jacob-bigelow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:45:20.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-jacob-bigelow"
name: "Henry Jacob Bigelow"
slug: "henry-jacob-bigelow"
description: "Henry Jacob Bigelow was an American surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard University. A dominating figure in Boston medicine for many decades, he is remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, a technique for treatment of kidney stones, and other innovations. He was instrumental in bringing the anesthetic possibilities of ether to the attention of medical men, and rescuing the case of Phineas Gage from relative obscurity. He was a vocal opponent of vivisection, and played a minor role in the apprehension of the culprit in the Parkman–Webster murder case."
tagline: "American surgeon (1818–1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Jacob_Bigelow_c1854.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1818-03-11"
deathDate: "1890-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.877070666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "هنري جاكوب بيجيلو"
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    title: "Henry Jacob Bigelow"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jacob_Bigelow"
    title: "Henry Jacob Bigelow"
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    title: "Henry Jacob Bigelow"
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    title: "Бигелоу, Генри Яков"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump