John Blair Deaver

John Blair Deaver (July 25, 1855 - September 25, 1931) was an American surgeon, the chief of surgery at the German Hospital in Philadelphia.

[4][5] In his early days as a doctor, Deaver worked alongside his physician brothers making house calls and performing surgeries in patients' homes.

As a proponent of immediate surgery to address appendicitis, Deaver's approach was often considered aggressive at a time when surgical interventions were not the norm.

In 1924 he stated, "If when I am taken to my reward, I am known as nothing else, I shall be satisfied to have as my epitaph: 'He fought a good fight- his life was a continuous war on the vermiform appendix.

He was among the founders of the American College of Surgeons, President of the Interstate Post-Graduate Medical Association of North America, and member of many other surgical societies.