Dr. William Worrall Mayo (* 31. May 1819, "† 6. March 1911) was an English physician and Chemiker.1888 bases it on urge of the sisters of pc. Francis in smelling ester the "Mayo" - hospital.

Mayo was born 1819 as a son of a sailing boat captain in England. Although it studied medicine, it did not put a diploma ab.1845 goes to Mayo to America and works there as a pharmacist assistant. Only short time it leaves the medical range later and opens in Lafayette Schneideratelier.Als the Cholera breaks out, all medical forces is needed and Mayo short hand the physician appointed. At stolen corpses Majo renews its medicine knowledge and does not make its Doktortitel.Dennoch works it thereafter not as a physician, but returns to the occupation of the pharmacist. Besides he works also as newspaper editor and American civil war strikes Mayo after smelling ester, Minnesota, where he works as physician and a mayor. Public admittingness and acknowledgment attain Mayo, when it succeeded to it to remove an ovary tumor.

1883 rage an gale in smelling esters and a small hospital are their line Dr. Mayo take over. Within shorten first time the small hospital becomes by its courage new working methods and modern diagnostic procedures the probably most well-known hospital of the USA.

Starting from 1888 Dr. Mayo removes the hospital as well as its sons William and Charles gradually. Today the Clinic center is one of the largest and bedeutentsten hospitals of the world. Beside the main buildings in the city center (outpatient clinics and conservative stationary treatment) also still the Saint Marys (59 operating rooms) belongs and to smelling ester Methodist hospital to the complex (40 operating rooms). Altogether here 4000 physicians treat annually more than 315,000 patients stationarily and 1.21 million ambulatory.

Literature

• Clapesattle, Helen. The Doctors Mayo, University OF Minnesota press (1975). ISBN 0816604657

Related links

• http://www.mayohouse.org/ (English)

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