William Mustard
| William Thornton Mustard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 8, 1914 Clinton, Ontario |
| Died | December 11, 1987 (aged 73) |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Occupation | Physician and cardiac surgeon |
| Employer | Hospital for Sick Children |
| Known for | Surgeon in the field of congenital heart defects |
William Thornton Mustard, OC MBE (August 8, 1914 – December 11, 1987) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon. In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute. He developed two operations named for him: the "Mustard operation" in orthopedics used to help hip use in people with polio and the "Mustard cardiovascular procedure" used to help correct heart problems in "blue babies," which has saved thousands of children worldwide.
Born in Clinton, Ontario, the son of Thornton and Pearl (Macdonald) Mustard, Mustard graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1937. He spent the next year on an internship at Toronto General Hospital and the following year on an internship in surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. He then took a fellowship at the New York Orthopedic Hospital. In 1940, he returned to Toronto and spent six months training in general surgery, chest diseases, and neurosurgery.
In 1941, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps where he first served as a First Lieutenant rising to become a Major. During World War II, he pioneered an operation that helped keep a patient's limb with severe artery damage rather than amputating it. In 1944, he performed an operation on a leg of a soldier which would later be recognized with being made a Member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire. In 1941, he married Elise Howe. They had seven children.
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