The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbe, Truman

ABBE, Truman, American surgeon, son of Cleveland Abbe and brother of Cleveland Abbe, Jr.: b. Washington, D. C., 1. Nov. 1873. After his graduation from Harvard University, in 1895, he studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Columbia University, New York, gaining his degree of M. D. in 1899. After a year's post-graduate course at the University of Berlin he served for two years in several hospitals in New York city. In 1902 he was appointed instructor of physics and physiology at Georgetown University and in the following year surgery was added to his subjects. In 1905 he became instructor in physiology at George Washington University and in 1909 he became also instructor in surgery at the same institution. From 1906 to 1910 he was chief surgeon of the Garfield Surgical Dispensary. In 1907 he was awarded a silver medal at the Jamestown Exposition for his researches into the use of radium as applied to medicine. Besides many articles on radium in medical journals he contributed to Vol. III of Wharton and Stiller's ‘Medical Jurisprudence’ (1905), and (with F. H. Bowlby) wrote ‘Physical Conditions and Treatment.’