Edward Lawrence Keyes Explained

Edward Lawrence Keyes
Birth Date:	28 August 1843
Birth Place:	Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
Death Place:	New York City, New York
Resting Place:	Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Occupation:	Urologist
Children:	Edward Loughborough Keyes
Signature:	Signature of Edward Lawrence Keyes.png

Edward Lawrence Keyes (August 28, 1843 – January 24, 1924) was a leading American urologist of the late 19th century^[1] and the first president of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons at its founding in 1888.^[2]

Life

Keyes, a son of General Erasmus D. Keyes, was born August 28, 1843, at Fort Moultrie Army Base in Charleston, South Carolina.^[3] He studied at Yale College, 1859–1863, graduating with a master's degree, and briefly served as his father's aide-de-camp as a captain in the United States Army.^[4] After graduating from Medical College of the New York University, he entered into practice with one of his teachers, William Holme Van Buren. In 1870 he himself began lecturing on dermatology and genitourinary surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College.^[3]

Family

Keyes married Sarah Loughborough on April 26, 1870.^[3] From 1881 to 1907 they lived at 930 Fifth Avenue, which they had decorated by John F. Douthitt and where Sarah hosted a salon.

Their son, Edward Loughborough Keyes, was like his father a noted urologist.

Edward Lawrence Keyes died from pneumonia at his home in New York on January 24, 1924.^[5] He was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.^[4]

Publications

• with William H. Van Buren, Surgical Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs Including Syphilis (1874)^[6]
• The Venereal Diseases Including Stricture of the Male Urethra (1880)
• with Charles H. Chetwood,^[7] Venereal Diseases: Their Complications and Sequelae (1900)

Notes and References

1. Smith . Emily B . Vaughan . E. D. . Belt . Edward S. . Bloom . David A. . Edward Lawrence Keyes: A pivotal early specialist in modern genitourinary surgery . Urology . November 2003 . 62 . 5 . 968–972 . 10.1016/s0090-4295(03)00129-8 . 14624936.
2. Book: Moran, Michael E. . Urolithiasis: A Comprehensive History . Springer . New York . 2014 . 9781461481966 . 300.
3. Encyclopedia: Keyes, Edward Lawrence . The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . IX . James T. White & Company . 343–344 . 1899.
4. Book: 1923–1924 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University . . 1001–1003 . 1924-08-01 . 2020-11-17.
5. News: Dr. Edward L. Keyes, Noted Medical Authority, Dead . . New York . 10 . 1924-01-25 . 2020-11-17 . Newspapers.com.
6. Prof. Van Buren on the Genito-Urinary Organs and Syphilis. Atlanta Med Surg J. 12. 4. July 1874. 245–246. 8868768.
7. Charles Howard Chetwood (1866–1952) was a professor of genito-urinary surgery at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. He practiced surgery in Manhattan. November 7, 1952. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Memorial. Charles Howard Chetwood '86. 53. 27. (The New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital was established in 1882 and merged in 1969 with the French Hospital, which was established in 1881 in New York City's Chelsea section. Both hospitals closed in 1977 because of insufficient funding.) American Journal of Roentgenology. September 28, 2016. New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. Schatzki, Stefan C.. 208. 1. 228–229 . 10.2214/AJR.16.16980.