| benjamin winslow dudley and early american trephination for posttraumatic epilepsy. | benjamin winslow dudley (1785-1870) was a kentucky frontier surgeon who received basic medical education in the united states and extensive surgical training in europe. he returned to lexington to become a dominant figure and the most prominent surgical teacher in the mississippi valley. written evidence of dudley's operative accomplishments are sparse, but he seems to have combined the finest french (dominique jean larrey, guillaume dupuytren) and british (henry cline, john abernethy, astley co ... | 1997 | 9218316 |