Robert F. Weir

1838 – 1927

He was said to be among the most brilliant surgeons of his time. He was one of the first in the United States to adopt Lister's technique of antisepsis; he was among the early workers in brain surgery and one of the first to recognize duodenal ulcer as a pathologic entity. He was the earliest to advocate appendicostomy. His operation for carcinoma of the rectum, a more practical modification of the procedure described by Maunsell (which was recently presented in this section*) is described in the classic article here reproduced. Weir went on to become president of the American Surgical Asso

• Gritti's supra-condyloid amputation of the thigh
• On litholapaxy
• Personal reminiscences of the New York Hospital from 1856 to 1900
• Remarks on a fatal result from the use of the elastic bandage in the treatment of a popliteal aneurism
• Remarks on extirpation of the kidney
• Black-board headings used in the lectures on surgery
• Contribution to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of tumors of the cerebrum
• Ichthyosis of the tongue and vulva
• On the antiseptic treatment of wounds and its results
• On the normal urethra and its constrictions in relation to strictures of large calibre
• Personal reminiscences of the New York Hospital from 1856 to 1900 ; Some Civil War recollections, 1861-1865
• Personal Reminiscences of the New York Hospital from 1856 to 1900; C. 1