William Macewan

Sir William Macewen, (; 22 June 1848 – 22 March 1924) was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the father of neurosurgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy (removal of the lungs).
Macewen was born near Port Bannatyne, near Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, in western Scotland in 1848.
He studied Medicine at the University of Glasgow, receiving a medical... meer