The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.
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- 1878
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Credit: The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![her of Lycoming co. med. soc, and has filled the office of president; also of the med. soc. of the State of Pa., of which he was elected vice-president in 1873. Organized the Wil- liamsport dispens. in 1869, and acted as phys. to the dep't of throat and chest diseases. Is a member of the board of trustees of the Wil- liamsport hosp., chartered in 1874. NOEGGERATH, EMIL, New York city, is a native of Germany, and graduated in medicine from the univ. of Bonn in 1852. He is a member of the N. Y. acad. of med., of the Medical Journal asso. of the city of New York, of the N. Y. obstet. soc, of which he is corres. sec.; of the N. Y. phys. mutual aid asso., and of the med. soc. of the CO. of N. Y. He is one of the attend. ]ihys. and surg. at the German hosp., New York, division for diseases of women. CAPRON, GEORGE, Providence, R. L, was born in Cumberland, R. I., May l6th, 1802. By reason of reverses suffered by his father, he was sent, at seven years of age, to reside with Judge Peleg Arnold, a distant relative and wealthy farmer, who also for many years held important offices in the gift of his town and State. He remained with his relative three years, receiving about three months' schooling every year. At the age of ten he returned home and went to work in a factory, where he remained for several years, receiving but two months' schooling during this period and until he was thirteen, although his family on both sides were highly educated. He then applied himself closely to study, obtained a clerkship which occupied him twelve or fourteen hours a day, gained a knowledge, nevertheless, of English grammar, natural philosophy, chem- istry, and Latin, and taught school at nights after his work was over. At eighteen years he began the study of medicine with Dr. Levi Wheaton, of Providence, still continuing his school, and improving himself the while in rhetoric, mental philosophy, history, etc. He attended a course of medical lectures in Bos- t )n, and aiso at the medical school iust then connected with the Brown univ., the lecturers of which were also professors at liarvard. He commenced practice in 1823 in North Providence, graduated M. D. from Brown univ. in 1S24, advocating in his thesis the use of opium in dysentery. He removed to Providence in 1835. His practice is general, hut is principally obstetric, in which branch he has gained a wide reputation, as he has attended nearly 8,000 labor cases. He was elected a member of the R. I. State med. soc. in 1824, was for many years its censor previous to 1850, and has been its second and first vice-president and president. He has contributed a large number of papers on medical subjects to the Boston Medical and Stirgical Jourjial, to the Transactions of the State med. soc, etc., etc. The following are among the more important: On the Various Forms of Aphthte, or Diseases of the Mucous Membrane, etc., with Method of Treatment; another, in 1850, On that variety of De- formity in the Pelvis, in which there is a Narrowness of the Antero-posterior Diameter, caused by Undue Development of the Prom- ontory of the Sacrum, frequently met with among the women of the laboring class, who while growing have had to bear heavy burdens, with advice as to the time to de- liver, etc., etc. ; a paper On the Physiologi- cal Action of Ergot in Obstetrical Practice, etc.; one on Belladonna ; one on those Obstetrical Cases where the Head is the Last Part Expelled, etc.; one On the Necessity of Always Being Provided with Forceps, read before the Providence med. asso.; Cases of Placenta Prjevia, etc.; On Hemorrhage from the Umbilicus in Infants, read before the Providence med. asso. ; Art of Applying Forceps, etc., ibid. ; Venesection in Puerperal Convulsions, Boston Lledical and Surgical Journal; On the Abuse of Cathartics, read before the above-named society. He is also author of a semi-medical work of between six and seven hundred pages, which passed into other hands, and is now out of print. He was for several years phys. to the marine hosp. at Providence, and during the war served for a short season at Hampton Roads. He mar- ried in 1823, and lost his wife in April, 1875. He married again in June, 1876. Telly, GEORGE S., McLean Asylum, J Somerville, Mass., received his prelimin- ary education at Brown univ., graduating K. B. in 1S64, and having studied in the med. dep't of Harvard, received his diploma from that institution in 1868. He is the phys. and sup't of the McLean asylum. Is a member of the State med. soc, to which he was admitted in 184S. WALLACE, ELLERSLIE, Philadel- phia, Pa., was born there June I5lh, 1819. Tie comes of English and Scottish ancestry, and claims to be a direct descendant of Robert Bruce. His literary education was obtained at Bristol coll., and in early life he followed the business of surveying. He studied medicine under his brother. Dr. Joshua Wallace, then demons, of anat. at Jefferson med. coll., from which institution he](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0779.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
