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Rev. Elisha Wheelock, an early missionary to the Indians. His family is an ancient one in England, of Norman antecedents. Sir Walter Bartelatt is its present representative in England.
ELY, ALBERT HEMAN, gynecologist, attended the Phillips (An- dover) Academy, in 1885 was graduated from Yale University, and subsequently was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons ( the Medical Department of Columbia University). He was an interne at St. Luke's Hospital, and was graduated from that institution as House Surgeon in 1889. He studied for a year and a half at Vienna and at the old Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin. For five years he was connected as Surgeon and Gynecologist with the Out-Patient Department of Roosevelt Hospital. He is Lecturer on Gynecology at the New York Polyclinic, and is AAttending Gyne- cologist at Charity Hospital. He is a member of the University and Manhattan clubs. He was born in Elyria, Ohio, November 22, 1860, and is the son of Heman Ely and Mary Francis Day. Ex-President Day, of Yale College, was his great-uncle. He lineally descends from Nathaniel Ely, who settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1634, while in 1636 he was associated with Rev. Thomas Hooker in the first settlement of Hartford, Conn. Dr. Ely's grandfather, Heman Ely, founded Elyria, the first settlement in Lorain County, Ohio, and named both the town and the county.
DRAPER, WILLIAM HENRY, engaged in the general practice of medicine in New York City, was graduated from Columbia Univer- sity in 1851, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1855 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was Interne at Bellevue Hospital in 1856. He was Visiting Physician to St. Luke's Hospital from 1859 to 1868, and since the latter date has been Consulting Physician to the same. From 1862 to 1889 he was Visiting Physician to the New York Hospital, while since 1889 he has been one of its consulting physicians. He has been Visiting Physician to Roosevelt Hospital since 1872, and Con- sulting Physician to the Presbyterian Hospital since 1880. He is a member of the leading medical societies, and has published many articles in the medical journals.
BULL, WILLIAM TILLINGHAST, eminent physician and sur- geon of New York, was born in Newport, R. L., May 18, 1849. He descends from Henry Bull, one of the original founders of Rhode Island, who was associated with Roger Williams in the settlement of Providence, was one of the seven purchasers of the island of Adquidneck, or Rhode Island, and served two terms as Governor of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations. He received a large tract of land upon a portion of which the city of Newport now stands.
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The property at the corner of Bull and Broad streets, Newport, owned by the father of Dr. Bull, is a part of this original tract, and has passed from father to son for more than two centuries and a half. Dr. Bull was graduated from Harvard College in 1869, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1872 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. His gradu- ating thesis, on " Perityphlitis," captured the first prize. After serv- ing for eighteen months as the Resident Surgeon of Bellevue Hospital. he studied medicine for two years in Europe, engaging in the active practice of his profession upon his return to New York City in 1875. Hle was for two years Physician-in-Charge of the New York Dispen- sary, of which he has since been a trustee. As Attending Surgeon, with a staff of as- sistants, during the eleven years dating from 1877, he was in charge of the Cham- bers Street Hospital, a branch of the New York Hospital. He resigned this position to connect himself with the parent institution. He was also Attending Sur- geon to St. Luke's Hospital for four years, and since 1883 has been one of its consulting surgeons. He is Consulting Surgeon to the Orthopedic Hospital and Dispensary, is Consulting Surgeon to the Manhattan Hospital, and is Surgeon-in-Charge of the Her- nia Department of the Hos- pital for Ruptured and Crip- pled. He has been one of the WILLIAM TILLINGHAST BULL, M.D. Visiting Surgeons of the New York Hospital since 1883. He is associated with Dr. R. F. Wier in the Professorship of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He had held several minor positions as a teacher of anat- omy and surgery prior to his call to this chair, having become As- sistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1879, and Demonstrator of the same in 1879, while he was Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Surgery from 1887 to 1889. He has been Professor of Surgery since 1889. He was Consulting Surgeon to the New York State Emi- grants' Hospital from 1SS4 to 1890, and in 1885 was Manager of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. In 1893, he married Mrs. Mary
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Nevins Blaine, and has a son, born in 1894. He resides during the summer at Newport, R. I. He is a member of the principal medical societies and of the New York Club.
BANGS. LEMUEL BOLTON, is engaged in the practice of general surgery in New York City. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1861, in 1872 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1873 was Interne at Belle- vue Hospital. Since 1884 he has been Visiting Surgeon to the City Hospital, formerly the Charity Hospital. Since 1885 he has been Vis- iting Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs on surgical subjects, and is a member of the leading medical societies.
KINNICUTT, FRANCIS P., was graduated from Harvard Univer- sity in 1868, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1871 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was House Physician to Bellevue Hospital, resigning the position. He studied medicine at Vienna in 1872 and 1873, and at the University of Heidelberg, and in London in 1873. He was Clin- ical Assistant in diseases of the mind and nervous system at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1873 to 1880, and was Instructor in Diseases of Children at the same institution from 1880 to 1887. From 1875 to 1880 he was Attending Physician to the Bellevue Hospital Dispensary in diseases of the heart and lungs. From 1877 to 1887 he was Attending Physician to the New York Hos- pital Dispensary in diseases of children. Since 1880 he has been Visit- ing Physician to St. Luke's Hospital, and, since 1887, has been Visiting Physician to the New York Cancer Hospital. Of the latter institution he has also been a trustee since 1887. He has been Consulting Physi- cian to the Babies' Hospital since 1889. In 1890 be was President of the Practitioners' Society, while from 1890 to 1892 he was President of the Alumni Association of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons (the Medical Department of Columbia University). In 1891 he was also elected a trustee of the last-mentioned institution. Ile is engaged in general practice in New York City.
CLEVELAND, CLEMENT, prominent as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, was born in Baltimore, Md., September 29, 1843, the son of the late Dr. Anthony Benezetto Cleveland, of that city. He was prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, and in 1867 was graduated from Harvard University. He taught for one year in a private classical school at Newport, R. I., and in 1871 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served the full term as Interne at Charity Hospital, and subsequently at the Woman's Hospital. He then served seven years as Attending Surgeon
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to Charity Hospital, resigning in 1881 on account of his private prac- tice. For a time he was also Assistant Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital, and since 1888 has been Attending Surgeon. One of the founders of the New York Cancer Hospital, at the outset he became Attending Gynecologist on its staff, and is now its Consulting Gyne- cologist and a member of its Board of Managers. He is likewise Consulting Gynecologist to St. Vincent's Hospital. He has published "Some Observations upon the Feeding of Infants," " A Case of Inter- stitial Pregnancy," " On Trachelorrhaphy," " On Laparo-Vaginal Hysterectomy," " The Palliative Treatment of Incurable Carcinoma
Uteri, Based upon Observations at the New York Cancer Hospital," " Description of a New Self-retain- ing Speculum," " Laparotomy in Treuddenberg's Posture with Exhi- bition of a New Operating Table," " The Treatment of Pelvic Abscess by Vaginal Puncture and Drain- age," and " The Alexander Opera- tion." He is a member and trustee of the New York Academy of Medi- cine, and a member of the County Medical Society, the Obstetrical So- ciety, the Practitioners' Society, and the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, as well as of the Cen- tury Association and the Harvard and University clubs. He was married, June 17, 1874, to Annie CLEMENT CLEVELAND, M.D. Ward Davenport, of Boston, and has a daughter, Elizabeth Manning, and two sons-Henry Davenport and Clement Cleveland, Jr. The family reside at Newport, R. L., in the summer.
WALKER, HENRY FREEMAN, New York physician, engaged in general practice, was graduated from Middlebury College in 1860, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1866 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was Interne of Bellevue Hospital in 1867. He was Assistant At- tending Physician in Diseases of Digestion at the Demilt Dispensary in 1869 and 1870, was Attending Physician in Diseases of the Heart and Lungs at the Bellevue Hospital Dispensary from 1870 to 1872. and was Attending Physician in the Diseases of Women to the same insti- tution from 1872 to 1875. He was Visiting Physician to the Nursery and Child's Hospital from 1871 to 1875, and Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital from 1875 to 1884. From 1876 to 1881 he was ('lini-
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cal Assistant in the Diseases of Women of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University). He is a member of the leading medical societies.
STEARNS, HENRY S., attended the School of Mines, Columbia University from 1879 to 1881; in 1884 was graduated from the Medi- cal Department of the University of the City of New York; in 1885 was Interne of Bellevue Hospital, and in 1887 studied at the Univer- sity of Vienna. He was Attending Physician in the Diseases of Chil- dren at the Bellevue Hospital Dispensary from 1887 to 1889, and was Attending Physician in General Medicine to the Demilt Dispensary from 1889 to 1892. In 1892 he was also Assistant Visiting Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. Since 1888 he has been Assistant in Pathology in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. He is a member of many leading medical societies, and is engaged in the practice of general medicine in New York City. .
CLARK, ALONZO, one of the best known New York physicians of his day, was graduated from Williams College in 1828, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts from that institution and from Dartmouth College. In 1835 he was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, while in 1813 he received the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine from the Berkshire Medical College. Ten years later he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the Univer- sity of Vermont. He was Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1848 to 1856, while from 1856 to 1887 he was Professor of Pathology and Practical Medicine in the same. From 1875 to 1883 he was President of the faculty of this institution. He died in New York City in 1887 at the age of eighty. From 1884 to 1887 he was Consulting Physician to Bellevue Hospital. He held many similar positions, and was a promi- nent member of the leading medical societies.
ABBE, ROBERT, born in New York City, April 13, 1851, attended the public schools, and in 1870 was graduated from the College of the City of New York; for two years was a teacher in this institution, and in 1874 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of this city. In 1873 he had become a member of the House Staff of St. Luke's Hospital and so remained for three years. In 1876 he engaged in private practice, at the same time being connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons as Quiz Master, Surgical and Clinical Assistant, and Curator of the Museum. He was Surgeon to the Out-patient Department of the New York Hospital for seven years, beginning with 1877, and between that year and 1SSt filled a number of subordinate surgical positions in connection with several
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other large hospitals. Since 1884 he has been Attending Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital. For two years he was Professor of Surgery in the Woman's Medical College, and for six years was Professor of Surgery in the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. For four years he was Attending Surgeon to the Babies' Hospital. In addition to the relation to St. Luke's Hospital mentioned above, at the present time he is Attending Surgeon to the Cancer Hospital, Assisting At- tending Surgeon to Roosevelt Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the Ruptured and Crippled Hospital. From the beginning of his career he has devoted himself strictly to surgical practice. Besides important contributions to the surgery of the spinal cord, the brain, the kidneys and the liver, and gall bladder, his more important treat- ises are " On Dupuytren's Finger Contraction," " The Surgical Treatment of Chronic Tie Dou- loureux," " An Original Method of Treating Strictures of the Esophagus," " Intestinal Anas- tomosis," "A New Method to Elucidate the Internal Pathol- ogy of Appendicitis," and " Tu- bercular Peritonitis and Acute General Peritonitis." Besides the Century and Riding clubs and the College of the City of New York Alumni Association, he is a member of the American Surgical Association, the Society of American Physicians and Surgeons, the New York Surgi- cal Society, the Practitioners' Society, the Clinical Society, the Pathological Society, and the Medical and Surgical Society. ROBERT ABBE, M.D. He married, in 1891. Catherine Amory ( Bennett ) Palmer, widow of the late Courtlandi Palmer. He is himself one of five sons of George Waldo Abbe, who was a drygoods merchant in this city, and Charlotte Colgate. ITis paternal ancestor, of French descent, emigrated from England in early colonial days, and settled in Salem, Mass., where two members of the family became prominent in opposing the witchcraft delusion. Dr. Abbe's eldest brother, Professor Cleveland Abbe, formerly Director of the Cincinnati Observatory, established in that city the first weather bureau in the United States, and in 1871 organized the Government Weather Bu- reau, and has since been its meteorologist.
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FLINT, AUSTIN, who died in New York City in 1886, at the age of seventy-four, was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1833, and subsequently received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale University and the Louisville University. He founded the Buf- falo Medical Journal, and was its editor from 1846 to 1856. He was also one of the founders of the Buffalo Medical College in 1816, and was its Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine and Pathology from 1846 to 1852, and from 1856 to 1858. Hle was Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Univer- sity of Louisville from 1852 to 1856, was Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Louisiana from 1858 to 1861, and was Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1886. He was Professor of Pathology and the Practice of Medicine in the Long Island College Hospital in 1861. He was Visiting Physician to Charity Hospital, New Orleans, from 1858 to 1861. From 1873 to 1875 he was President of the New York Academy of Medicine, while in 1883 and 1884 he was Presi- dent of the American Medical Association. He published the fol- lowing books: "Continued Fever " (1852), " Report on Dysentery " (1853), "Discases of the Respiratory Organs" (1856), " Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine" (first edition, 1866; sixth edition, 1886), " Diseases of the Heart" (1870), "Heart Sounds " (1870), "Conservative Medicine" (1874), "Phthisic" (1875), " Clinical Medicine " (1879), "Physical Exploration of the Lungs " (1882), " Medical Ethics and Etiquette " (1883), and " Manual for Auscultation and Percussion " (1885). He also published " The Va- riation of Pitch in Percussion and Respiratory Sounds," a prize essay (1852), and " The Clinical Study of the Heart Sounds in Health and Disease " (1859).
FLINT, AUSTIN, son of the late Dr. Austin Flint, was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in 1857, from which, in 1885, he received the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was Surgeon to the Buffalo General Hospital in 1858, and from 1862 to 1866 was Surgeon to the United States General Hospital at New York City. From 1874 to 1878 he was Surgeon-General of the State of New York. He was editor of the Buffalo Medical Journal from 1857 to 1860; was Professor of Physiology in the University of Buffalo in 1858 and 1859; was Pro- fessor of the same in the New York Medical College in 1859 and 1860; was Professor of the same in the New Orleans School of Medicine in 1860 and 1861, and, since 1861, has been Professor of Physiology in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He is the author of " Physiol- ogy of Man " (five volumes, 1866-74; second edition, 1875). " Chemi- cal Examination of Urine in Disease " (1870; sixth edition, 1884), " Physiological Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercise " (New York, 1871; London, 1876), " Textbook of Human Physiology "
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(1875; fourth edition, 1888), "Source of Muscular Power" (1878), with a large number of important articles and addresses. He deliv- ered the address in behalf of the United States at the Ninth Inter- national Medical Congress at Washington in 1887.
FLINT, AUSTIN, son of the present Dr. Austin Flint, and grand- son of the late Dr. Austin Flint, was graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1889. He was an Interne of Bellevue Hospital in 1890. Since 1891 he has been Visiting Physician to the Midwifery Dispensary, New York City, and since 1891 has also been Assistant Visiting Physician to the Bellevue and the Emergency hos- pitals. Since 1892 he has been Assistant to the Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children of Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
HARTLEY. FRANK, attended the public schools of Washington, D. C., and Emerson Institute; in 1877 was graduated from Princeton College, and in 1880 was gradu- ated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served two years as Interne of Bellevue Hospital, and spent an- other period of two years in study in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. Upon his return to New York, in 1884, he engaged in private prac- tice, confining himself to surgical work. He has been Assistant Sur- geon to Roosevelt Hospital since 1885, Attending Surgeon to the New York Hospital since 1892, and Consulting Surgeon to the New York Cancer Hospital since 1892. From 1889 to 1892 he was Attend- ing Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. For some time he has also been In- FRANK HARTLEY, M.D. structor in Operative Surgery up- on the Cadaver in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is President of the New York Surgical Society, and a member of the New York Clinical Society. the Medico-Chirurgical Society, the Dermatological Society. the Genito-Urinary Society, and the New York Pathological Society. He is a member of the University Club. He is the author of valuable papers, especially upon the subjects of the extirpation of the spleen and the thyroid gland. He originated the new method of incision upon the neck. involving operating in the natural cleavage of the skin, exposing the anterior and the pos-
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terior triangles of the neck so that diseased processes may be re- moved in an anatomical manner and leave the slightest observable scar. He also originated the method of removing the Gasserian ganglion for inveterate trigeminal neuralgia, an operation which be- comes necessary in critical cases where operations upon the terminal nerves, as well as all medications, have failed to relieve persistent pain. Dr. Hartley was born in the city of Washington, June 10. 1856. the son of John Fairfield Hartley and Mary D. King. His ancestors on both sides are of colonial New England stock, the immediate pa- ternal ancestors being natives of Maine. His father was connected with the Treasury Department at Washington during the thirty-five years from 1838 to 1875. in the capacities of Clerk, Chief Clerk, and Assistant Secretary. After holding the position of Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury for ten years he resigned in May, 1875, and re- moved to the old Hartley homestead. near Saco, Me .. which has been in the possession of the family for more than a century.
SIMS, JAMES MARION, has been styled the " Father of American Gynecology." There is a sense in which this claim may be allowed, without conceding the extravagant claims made by Dr. Sims himself, and by others for him. He was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina, January 25, 1813, and died at Washington, D. C., November 13, 1883. Through his father, John Sims, he descended from an old Virginia family, while his mother was of Scotch-Irish descent, a daugh- ter of Charles Mackey. He was graduated from the South Carolina College in 1832, attended lectures at the Charleston Medical College, and in 1835 was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Phila- delphia. He was a country physician from this time until December. 1840, when he settled in Montgomery, Ala. Here he gained a local reputation as a surgeon, performing a successful operation for club- foot. Between December, 1845, and June, 1849, he conducted his fa- mous experiments to cure vesico-vaginal fistula, having from six to eight patients who were afflicted with this dreadful disorder. From 1849 to 1853 chronic diarrhea incapacitated him for practice for the most part, while he visited various parts of the country. Believing himself about to die, he gave his first account of his method for vesico- vaginal fistula in the article, "On the Treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula," in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, for January, 1852. In March, 1853, he sold his house and lot in Montgomery, Ala .. to Dr. Nathan Bozeman. of that city, for $10,000, while on May 27. 1853, Dr. Sims removed to New York City. To some of the leading physicians of New York Dr. Sims advanced the project of a hospital devoted entirely to the diseases of women, but none of these cared to go out of their way to inaugurate such an institution for him. With the aid of a newspaper man he announced a meeting through the press. at which he would address the medical profession on this subject.
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Many attended the meeting, the project was indorsed, and a commit- tee of eminent physicians appointed to take the matter in hand. A number of prominent society women were also interested, and the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York was incorporated, opening its doors in a small way, in May, 1855. Dr. Sims was its surgeon, Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet becoming his assistant, and subsequently his successor. With the exception of a few months, Dr. Sims resided and practiced in Europe throughout the period of the Civil War. He was Surgeon-in-Chief of the Anglo-American Ambulance Corps with the French Army in 1870. Returning to New York he became a member of the Board of Surgeons of the Woman's Hospital, from January, 1872, to December, 1874, when he resigned, because the Board of Managers objected to the presence of more than fifteen medical ob- servers of operations at a time. In 1876 he was elected President of the American Medical Association, while in 1880 he was President of the American Gynecological Society. Ile was at Paris during the greater part of the years 1882 and 1883. His wife, four daughters, and a son, Dr. Harry Marion Sims, survived him. Between Dr. Sims and Dr. Nathan Bozeman there is a historic question of priority in perfecting the treatment for vesico-vaginal and recto-vaginal fistula. While the popular opinion favors Sims, the documentary evidence establishes the claim of Dr. Bozeman. It is now admitted that " in every particular feature of the operation on which his success depended Dr. Sims had been anticipated " ( Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet : " Principles and Prac- tice of Gynecology," 3d ed., p. 817). In Holland, Great Britain, Ger- many, and France the speculum had been employed to display the fistula, while sutures of various kinds had been applied. The opera- tion had been successful in some cases, where the fistula was small, but was generally unsuccessful. The speculum, the clamp sutures, the knee-and-chest position, and the paring of the edges of the fistula, which were the features of Dr. Sims's original paper, published in 1852, had been published by Metzler in 1846. Moreover, in his paper, Sims recognized that Hayward, of Boston, had been successful be- tween 1836 and 1840 with the silk suture; and that Dr. Mettauer, of Virginia, had been successful in 1847 with interrupted sutures of lead wire,-the latter expressing the belief that every case of vesico-vaginal fistula could be cured in this way. Dr. Sims originally advocated the quill suture, securing the edges of the fistula with clamps. He claimed that he had effected cures in six or eight cases, but did not publish his cases. Those who attempted to follow him, however, al- most uniformly reported failure in all cases except the very simplest, through the sloughing out of the clamps, enlarging the fistula. Dr. Bozeman, who had assisted Dr. Sims in some of the latter's opera- tions, at Montgomery, Ala., becoming his follower, and, for a time, his partner, found that this was a cause of failure in all his cases except the simplest. To meet this, he modified the practice. He abandoned
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