Hiram Winnett Orr, MD, c. 1918
Item
Title
Hiram Winnett Orr, MD, c. 1918
Date
1918
Description
Born in 1877, Hiram Winnett Orr, MD, came to Nebraska in 1892. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in 1899. During WWI, Dr. Orr served as a surgeon in the Medical Corps, developing the “Orr method” of using surgery and plaster casts to reduce infection in open and compound fractures. Returning to the states in 1919, he oversaw the medical regiment of the Nebraska National Guard for three years, discharging from the military in 1922 at the rank of Colonel. He was the founder and chief surgeon at the State Orthopedics Hospital, as well as Bryan Memorial Hospital and Lincoln General in Lincoln, Nebraska, until his retirement in 1956.
Identifier
4.10b.01
Rights
From the McGoogan Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives