The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Cutter, Ephraim

CUTTER, Ephraim, American physician: b. Woburn, Mass., 1 Sept. 1832; d. West Falmouth, Mass., 25 April 1917. He was graduated at Yale University in 1852; practised medicine in his native city till 1875, in Cambridge and Boston till 1881, when he removed to New York and began practice there. He has invented a large number of surgical instruments; contributed over 400 articles to literature on scientific subjects, including microscopic medicine, laryngology, chronic diseases and general medicine; and became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1856, and of the American Medical Association in 1871. He was a pioneer of American laryngology; he studied the morphology of raw beef from 1854 and discovered the tuberculosis cattle test in 1894.