Keen
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, an American surgeon; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 19, 1837; was graduated at Brown University in 1859, and at Jefferson Medical College in 1862; assistant surgeon 5th Massachusetts regiment in 1861; acting assistant surgeon United States army, 1862-1864; studied in Europe 1864-1866; was head of the Philadelphia School of Anatomy 1866-1875; lecturer on pathological anatomy at Jef- Medical College 1866-1875; Professor of Artistic Anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1876- 1890; of surgery at the Women's Medical College 1884-1889, and of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College 1889. He paid special attention to the surgery of the nervous system; was a pioneer in cerebral surgery; in 1890 published experiments with the injection of filtered air for the determination of rupture of the bladder; in 1891 proposed relieving spaswryneck by the exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head. He wrote "Keen's Clinical Charts" (1870); "Early History of Practical Anatomy" (1870); etc. He edited " American Health Primers" (1879-1880); "Gray's Anatomy" (1887); "American Text Book of Surgery" ( 1899); etc. He received the degree of LL. D. from Brown University in 1892; .
D. from Brown University in 1892; became honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1900.