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

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1878
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    been in the shape of the reports which he has issued under orders from the army med. dcp't, viz.: The Surgical Report of Circular 6, S. G. O., on the Nature and Extent of the Materials Available for a History of the War; on Amputation at the Hip-Joint; on Ex- cisions of the Head of the Femur; on Surgical Cases in the United vStates Army; on A Plan for Transporting Wounded Sol- diers by Railway; on The Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack Animals; also A Check-List of the Anatomical Section of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, and two vols., constituting vol. 2 of Part I., and vol. 2 of Part H. of The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. The compilation of this last-named work has ]ilaced Surgeon Otis among the most promi- nent of contributors to surgical history. He was married, Sept. 14th, 1S50, to Pauline Clark Baury, daughter of Rev. Dr. Alfred L. liaury, of Boston. Upon her death, July 14th, 1S63, Dr. Otis decided to devote himself peimanently to army surgery. FACET, JEAN CHARLES, Sr., New Orleans, La., was born in New Orleans, La., June 26lh, 1818. His family, of French extraction, went from St. Domingo to Cuba, after the negro revolution in the former island, and from Cuba came to New Orleans in 1809. He was educated at the College Rolin, Paris, France, in which he was a student from 1S30 to 1837, and pursued his medical studies, as externe and interne, at the hospitals of Paris, from 1837 to 1845, studying under BJandin at the Hotel Dieu, Lisfranc and Gendrin at the Hopital de la Pitie, and Devergie at the Hopital St. Louis, and receiving the degree of doctor of medicine from the faculty of Paris, in Decem- ber, 1844. He first settled in New Orleans, remaining there from March, 1845, to March, 1S65, when he went to Paris, where he re- mained from 1865 to 1867, leturning thence in that year to New Orleans, in which he has since resided. After the New Orleans epi- demic of 1S58 he engaged in an earnest con- troversy for the establishment of the haema- temesic-paludal fever, notable as being easily mistaken for the genuine yellow fever, and v\hich he claims the priority in establishirig clinically as the liai'malemesic variety of the hemorrhagic malarial fever, so important to differentiate from the yellow fever proper; the controversy above mentioned having been waged, indeed, after the hcematuric fever had been described by the physicians of the Fiench colonies, but before the hemorrhagic malarial fever was known in our Southern Slates. He also claims, it should be staled here, the prior- ity in establishing clinically, as the specific character of yellow fever, the law of the reg- ular decrease of the figures of the pulse, there having been in Blair's work (on the last yel- low fever epidemic in Guiana), it is true, a table of the figures of tlie pulse in yellow fever which bears witness in favor of that law, but no recognition of the law itself Dr. Faget is a member of the societe medicale d'observa- tion de Louis; of the societe anatomic|ue de Paris; and laureat corres. member of the so- ciete medicale de Caen. His medical writings have been voluminous, embracing Eludes sur les Bases de la Science Medicale, 1856, for which he received a gold medal from the acad. of Caen ; Memoires et Letlres sur la F'ievre Idune et la Fievre Paludeenne, 1864, on the publication of which he was made chevalier of the legion of honor; The Type and Specific ofYellow Fever Established with Watch and Thermometer, 1875, afler vvhich publication, being a candidate before the med. acad. of Paris, he leceived twenty-four votes out of fifty-three, Schwan, of Leipsic, receiving twenty-seven, and West, of London, two; a brochure on the Catarrhal or Mucous Form of, the Paludal Fever, published in 1859; and publications, at different times, in the medical journals of Paris and New Or- leans, of which the most noteworthy, per- haps, are papers on Croup and Trache- otomy; on Dengue; on Hxmatem- esic-Paludal Fever, and on Pulse in Yel- low Fever, contributed to the Ncru Orleatts Medical yoiirnal. In 1864 he was one of the three members of a sanitary commission named by Gen. Banks, then commanding the department of the Gulf, and drew up the report of the commission, which was forwarded to Washington. He was married in 1S44 to a daughter of Dr. Ligeret de Chazey, of the faculty of Paris, one of his sons, Charles Faget, Jr., being now chief of clinic under Prof. Bemiss, of the univ. of New Orleans, and demonstrator of anatomy in the same university. PRAY, THOMAS JEFFERSON WOR- CESTER, of Dover, N. H., was born in Lebanon, Me., Sept. 2d, 1S19. His father was Major Moses Pray, and his mother Lydia (Worcester) Pray, a relative of Noah Worcester, LL. D. He was educated at Bowdoin coll., graduating in the class of 1S44; studied medicine at Harvard univ., and, taking the degree of A. M. in 1847 and that of M. D. in 1848, settled in Dover. He is a memlier of Dover med. asso., of the Strafford district med. soc, and of Ihc N. H. med. soc. and has held the position of presi- dent of the two first named. He has written
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