Name:Abrahim Antonuos Ashraf Group 19lc3a About:Orvan Hess

noted for his early use of penicillin and the development

of the fetal heart monitor. Hess was born in Baoba, Pennsylvania. At the age of two, after his mother's death, the family moved to Margaretville, New York where he grew up. Hess was inspired by Doctor Gordon Bostwick Maurer—who started Margaretville's first hospital in 1925— to study .medicine. He married Dr. Maurer's sister, Carol Maurer, in 1928

Hess went to Lafayette College and was graduated in 1927, and received his MD from the University at Buffalo. He completed an

an
.obstetrician and gynecologist

Hospital, interrupted by World War II service as a surgeon

in the 48th Armored Medical Battalion attached to the 2nd Armored Division in the
.invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy

He was clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine. He also served as president of the Connecticut State Medical Society, and director of health services for the

of 96

is survived by two daughters, Dr. Katherine Halloran of Lexington,

and Carolyn Westerfield of Hamden; five grandchildren; and five great-
.granddaughters

Early use of penicillin
On March 14, 1942, John Bumstead and Hess became the first doctors .in the world to successfully treat a patient (Anne Miller) with penicillin

Doctors had done everything possible, both surgically and medically," " Dr. Hess said in a 1998 interview with Katie Krauss, the editor of Yale-

Hess delivered.
"."I went to see her and knew she was

dying

Dr. Hess went to talk to her internist, Dr. Bumstead, and found him asleep in the library. "While I was waiting for him to wake up," Dr. Hess said, "I sat and read the latest Reader's Digest, in which there was an article called 'Germ Killers From Earth', about the use of soil bacteria to
".kill streptococcal infection in animals

had something like this gramicidin mentioned in the Reader's Digest?"

This prompted Dr. Bumstead to speak with some colleagues who were studying penicillin and to obtain some for the patient, Anne Miller. The day after her first injection, Mrs. Miller's fever broke. She lived to be 90 years
.old, dying in 1999

New York Times —
Hess received the American Medical Association's Scientific .Achievement Award in 1979 for his work on this case

monitor in the 1930s as a research fellow at Yale

University due to his frustration with the limitations of using a stethoscope on a subject with two heartbeats and undergoing
.contractions

In 1949, after World War II, Hess returned to Yale and resumed his work, along with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Edward Hon. In 1957, using a six-and-a-half-foot-tall machine, they became the first in the world to .continuously monitor electrical cardiac signals from a fetus

the medical school's electronics laboratory, Dr. Hess continued to improve

on the equipment, introducing telemetry and reducing the monitor's size. The device, which allowed monitoring to continue during labor,
.became one of the most-used tests in obstetrics

a building ".just outside the city of Hartford called the

"Hartford Medical Society