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To all who practise the art and science of plastic surgery, the name of Robert Abbe will need no introduction. There are many who may have imagined, quite understandably, that Abbe was a Frenchman (a disciple perhaps of the great Victor Veau) and that the family name had once been spelt with an e-acute at the end of his name. However, he was a seventh-generation American, and the e-acute had been dropped long before Robert Abbe was born in New York, the fifth of seven children.
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Tolhurst, D. (2015). Robert Abbe (1851–1928). In: Pioneers in Plastic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19539-1_6
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