Howard Atwood Kelly (1858–1943) was a distinguished American gynecologist and one of four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, along with William Osler, William Halsted, and William Welch.
A true story about Dr. Kelly repaying a little girl’s kindness, recorded in his biography “Dr. Kelly of Hopkins: Surgeon, Scientist, Christian” by his friend Audrey Davis, gives proof to the popular saying “No good deed goes unrewarded.”
