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Dr. John Ashurst, Jr. was born ca. 1840 in Pennsylvania, USA.
He was an American surgeon. He was elected Vice-President of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1895. He was a Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and served as Chair of Surgery at Penn State University from 1889 to 1900. In 1867, he published a monograph, "Injuries of the spine."