George Hayward

George Hayward was an American surgeon who achieved groundbreaking techniques in surgery and anesthesia. Hayward practiced at Massachusetts General Hospital and served as Harvard University's first professor of clinical surgery. In 1839, he published the first American case report of a successful surgical closure of a vesicovaginal fistula. In 1846, he performed the second operation in history, and later that year the first major surgery, using ether anesthesia.