COHEN, HARRY

COHEN, HARRY
COHEN, HARRY (1885–1969), U.S. surgeon, inventor, and author. Cohen was born in Austria and taken to the U.S. as a baby. In the course of a 60-year medical career in New York, Cohen was a medical inspector for the New York Department of Health (1912–13), and a surgeon at several institutions. He invented the clamp tourniquet (1934), the ligature guide (1936), and a surgical forceps for intravesical use (1930). Cohen, who was extremely active in Jewish affairs, was coeditor of Jews in the World of Science (1956), and chief editor of American Jews: Their Lives and Achievements (1958). His other publications include: Simon Bolivar and the Conquest and Liberation of South America (1955); The Religion of Benjamin Franklin (1957); and numerous medical monographs. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: New York Times (Jan. 31, 1969); S.R. Kagan, Jewish Medicine (1952), 462–3.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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