Lewis Atterbury Stimson (August 24, 1844 – September 17, 1917 ) was an American surgeon who was the first to perform a public operation in the United States using Joseph Lister's antiseptic technique.

[4] He was the uncle of Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975), the inventor of the LORAN Long Range Navigation System.

[2] In 1866, after marrying, he entered the banking office of his father and in 1867, became a member of the New York Stock Exchange.

[2][10] He made advances in techniques for abdominal surgery[11] and is attributed with developing the Stimson maneuver for reducing a dislocated shoulder or hip, which he described in the article, "An Easy Method of Reducing Dislocations of the Shoulder and Hip", published in New York Medical Record in 1900.

[15][16] In June 1905, Stimson was a dinner guest aboard the yacht, Hohenzollern, of Emperor Wilhelm II along with Robert Goelet.

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