William Belfield
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William Belfield
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William T. Belfield was an American urologist who is credited with having performed the first intentional prostatectomy in 1885, 1886 or 1887 at Cook County Hospital. It is possible he only performed a partial prostatectomy. The British surgeon Arthur Fergusson McGill (1850–1890) performed a similar procedure very close to this time, but McGill ultimately recognized Belfield as having been first. Belfield was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1856 but spent much of his childhood in Chicago. He earn
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American urologist
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2023-07-27T07:01:31Z
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