Alfred Bennison Atherton

Alfred Bennison Atherton (January 22, 1843  – March 7, 1921) [1] was a Canadian surgeon, gynaecologist, obstetrician and educator who made historical contributions to the pathology and surgery of hernia.

from the University of New Brunswick in 1862,[6] and subsequently studied in the United States, where he earned his MD from Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1866.

[9] Atherton was a medical practitioner in Canada and the United States, initially at Victoria Cottage Hospital [10] in Fredericton, New Brunswick, followed by Ontario from 1884.

[13] At the time of his brother George’s death in April 1895, The Gleaner, a Fredericton newspaper described him as formerly of the city and now practicing in Toronto.

[14][15] Atherton participated in the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The British Medical Association, which took place in Toronto in August 1906.

[18] In 1903, whilst surgeon at Victoria Public Hospital, Fredericton, he published a report on Retroperitoneal Hernia and acute strangulation of a knuckle of ileum in a pericael pouch.

[19] Atherton was a contributor to American Medical Biographies edited by Howard Atwood Kelly and Walter Lincoln Burrage.

He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1911 Canadian Federal Election, running against Oswald Smith Crockett in the York electoral district.

He continued working into his senior years and is mentioned in the New York Medical Journal having attended a function one month before he died.