George E. Goodfellow
American physician · United States · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1855 to 1910 · aged 54
George Emory Goodfellow was a physician and naturalist in the 19th- and early 20th-century American Old West who developed a reputation as the United States' foremost expert in treating gunshot wounds.
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Goodfellow's mother returned to San Francisco aboard the Pacific Mail Steamship Company ship S.S. Golden Gate
A cabinet photograph of Dr. Goodfellow by C.S. Fly, a noted Tombstone, Arizona Territory photographer
Goodfellow arrived in Tombstone in 1880 as the town was booming during its silver mining peak and practiced there for 11 years
Dr. Goodfellow's office was on the second floor of the Crystal Palace Saloon, seen here in 1885
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Tombstone citizens lynched John Heath (also spelled Heith) on February 22, 1884. As County Coroner, Goodfellow ruled he died of "strangulation, self-inflicted or otherwise."About this person
As a medical practitioner in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Goodfellow treated numerous bullet wounds to both lawmen and outlaws. He recorded several significant medical firsts throughout his career, including performing the first documented laparotomy for treating an abdominal gunshot wound and the first perineal prostatectomy to remove an enlarged prostate. He also pioneered the use of spinal anesthesia and sterile techniques in treating gunshot wounds and is regarded as the first civilian trauma surgeon.
