205:. Harrington came on the staff at Mayo's in 1917 and retired in 1954. He started the department of Thoracic Surgery after a trip to Germany to study thoracotomy methods. He worked with anesthesiologist John Lundy to develop early methods of intubation and anesthesia for open chest cases. Harrington originated the trans-abdominal approach for the repair of hiatal and diaphragmatic hernias. He performed more than 25,000 mastectomies for breast cancer in his long career.
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for work on chronic postpneumonic empyema, and pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis. In 1937, Harrington was elected the 20th president of The
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152:. He then matriculated to the
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