The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.

Date:: 1878

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$pcdin; or, .1 rmctical Treatise on the ALer- rationsoflhe Human Form, 1S74. WIIITMIRE, JAMES S., of Metamora, HI., was boin in Sidney, Shelljy co., O., Dec. 13th, 1821. He is tiie son of John \Vhitmiie and Elizabeth Robinson, his wife. His father was a tanner and currier. He received his preliminary education in a com- mon school, and completed it while working at the shoe-bench. He studied medicine with James L. Kyle, of JSIacomb, 111., and grad- uated first in the med. dep't of the 111. univ., at Jacksonville, in the spring of 1847 ; received ad titndcm in the spring of 1850 from the Rush med. coll., Chicago, and also a degree of M. D. from the Jefferson med. coll., in Philadelphia, in 1856. He settled in Meta- mora in 1S46, where he began practice, having worked his way up without capital, by man- ual labor and by teaching school, from the lime he was twenty-one yeais of age. He lias been a member of the 111. State med. soc. since 1851, and has held the position of its vice-i)resident; is now a member of the North Central med. asso.; was its first president, and is also a member of the Woodford co. med. soc; of this, loo, he has been twice president. His thesis, which he prepaied when he received adeundeni from Rush med. school, was on the use of iodine as an anti- dote to the venom of rattlesnake. This was subsequently published in the January number of the Northiijesiern A'ledical and Surgical yoiirnal. Experiments to establish the cor- rectness of the facts staled therein were after- wards made by Dr. Brainard. Besides the above he has contributed papers to the medical literature of the country. In Oct., 1861, he was commissioned assistant-surgeon to the 6th Illinois volunteer cavalry, and in May, 1862, was promoted to the position of surgeon of the 56ih regiment Illinois volunteer in- fantry, lie resigned his position after the fall of Vicksburg. On July 4th, 1846, he married Sidnah Robinson, of Morgan co., 111. His ancestors, and also those of his wife, were of German origin on the male side and of Sclavonic origin on the mother's. BIRD, JOHN F., rhiladelphia, was born, March 7th, 1816, at West River, Md. He graduated at Dickinson coll., Carlisle, Pa., in 1840, and in the med. dep't of the imiv. of Pa. in 1843, when he began the ])ractice of medicine at his native place, l)ul in 1848 removed to Philadelphia, where he has since remained. He gradually ac- ([uired a remunerative practice, making mid- wifery a specialty. He is a member of the Philadelphia co.-med. soc. To the Medical Record, of New Ycrk, and tlic Medical Brief, of St. Louis, he has contributed papers on the probable causes of the resemblance cf twins, maintaining that twins contained in the same sac of wateis are exactly alike, while those containetl in separate sacs are no more alike than children of the same parents at intervals of years; aiul on the causes and prevention of miscarriages in the fourth month, ascribing these in great degree to prolapsus and retroversion, and recom- mending pessaries as a remedy. He has been one cf the medical examineis for the Ameri- can life insurance company, of Philadelphia, since its organization, and a member of the board of tiustees of Dickinson coll. for more than twenty years, and also of the educational society of the Philadelphia annual conference since its organization. He was married in 1840 to Jane Wright, daughter of the late Thomas Wright, of Philadelphia, and again in 1875 to JNlrs. Helen Barron Bostwick, of Cleveland, O., widely known for her contri- butions in poetry and prose to the leading journals and periodicals of the country. BROWN, WILLIAM SYMINGTON, Stoneham, Mass., born in Cilasgow, Scotland, Pel). 9th, 1S21. Th.rough his mc- iher's side, the Symingtons, he comes from the stock of the old Covenanters. He was educated in George Gartley's school and at the Andersonian univ., Glasgow, and grad- uated from the univ. of Pa. in Feb., 1855. He first commenced jjiactice in Boston, but in August, 1865, permanently settled in Stone- ham, and, while treating cases in generaj practice, specially devoted himself to diseases of v\omen. He is a member of the Mass. med. soc; admitted fellow in 1S62; is presi- dent of the Middlesex east district soc, elected 1876; was elected in 1876 and re- elected 1877 medical director dep't of Mass., G. A. R., correspondent of the State board of health, Mass.; was prof, of anatomy in the New F3ngland female med. coll. from 1855 to i860, and was late chairman of the board of health at Stoneham. His published papers and books have been : Round Fi- broid Tumor of Uterus [^Philadelphia Medi- cal and Sitrgical J\cpoiler, 1873); Fatal Case of Vomiting during Pregnancy {Jour- nal Gyuiecological Sociely, 1870); Atresia Vagi no? Successfully Operated On {Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1876); also, Chemistry for Beginners, 2d edition. He was assistant-surgeon 33d regiment Massa- chusetts volunteers, and surgeon of 55th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, during a portion of the late civil war. For two years he also held the position of chairman of$

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