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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1941.

Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#6357.57
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/8232
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLabdominal-surgery-of-infancy-and-childhood

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia

Mentioned in annotation: Boston