page_title: Rudolph Matas
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Rudolph Matas / References
caption_attribution_description: Professor Rudolph Matas and Professor G.Grey Turner after the presentation of a silver plaque in the Matas Library, Tulane University, New Orleans
context_page_description: Rudolph Matas was an American surgeon. Born outside of New Orleans in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, he spent much of his childhood in his parents' native land of Spain, returning to the New Orleans in 1877 to begin his medical training at the Medical School of the University of Louisiana, now known as Tulane University School of Medicine, receiving his medical degree in 1880 at 19 years old.
  Matas was the first to use spinal anesthesia as part of surgery in the United States, with work he conducted in 1889. He was the developer of the intravenous drip technique, of suction, of siphonage in abdominal operations, and the first to surgically repair aneurysms. Furthermore, he was the first to perform a Kondoleon operation for elephantiasis in the U.S. In 1896, he published an influential pamphlet, The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro.
  Many of his publications continue to be cited through the 2000s. William Osler called him the "Father of Vascular Surgery." He was a founding member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and a member of its first council in 1917, serving as its third President in 1919.
context_section_description: Kenny, Stephen C. (2019-11-14). "Capturing Racial Pathology: American Medical Photography in the Era of Jim Crow". American Journal of Public Health: e1–e9. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305357. ISSN 0090-0036. PMID 31725325.
  AATS: Council Meetings.  Accessed June 13, 2007.
  The Rudolph Matas Award Recipients. Southern Association for Vascular Surgery
  "An Aerial Photographic Survey". Science. 79 (2038): 51. 1934. doi:10.1126/science.79.2038.51.
  Cohn, Isidore. Rudolph Matas: a Biography of One of the Great Pioneers in Surgery.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.
  Nunn, DB (1992). "Dr. Halsted's secret operation on Dr. Matas". Annals of Surgery. 216 (1): 87–93. doi:10.1097/00000658-199207000-00013. PMC 1242551. PMID 1632707.
  "Obituaries". Military Medicine. 121 (5): 353–354. 1957-11-01. doi:10.1093/milmed/121.5.353. ISSN 0026-4075.
caption: Rudolph Matas and George Grey Turner after the presentation of a silver plaque in the Matas Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, October 15, 1949
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