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

Date:: 1878

Credit: The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$various papers to the medical journals, among them being, On the Relations between Phy- sician and Druggist; Therapeutics Re- lationshipbelween Scarlatina and Diphtheria; in Medical and Surgical Reporter, res]iec- lively for May, 1872, and May and Nov., 1875; On Hay Fever, Virginia Medical Monthly, for June, 1877, etc., etc. He has for many years held the position of vaccine ])hysician for the city of Baltimore; during the war was surgeon of Baltimore city guards, which formed the nucleus of one of the Mary- land regiments, with the rank of major; was volunteer physician after the second battle of IJuU Run, and one of the fourteen citizens of Baltimore who voted for Lincoln in i860. In Oct., 1861, he mafried Maggie J., daugh- ter of John Myers, Esq., of Frederick City, Maryland. LESTER, THOMAS BRYAN, Kansas City, iVIo., son of Bryan W. Lester, was born in Charlotte co., Va., July 24lh, 1824. Having studied at Shurtliff coll., Al- ton, 111., he read medicine under Dr. M. W. Hall, of Salem, 111.; attended his first course of lectures in 1845-46, and his second course in 1849-50, in the med. dep't of the itniv. of Mo., and in the latter year received from that institution his degree of M. D. From 1850 to 1854 he practised in Salem, 111., and since 1854 has been established in Kansas City, being now the oldest practitioner there resident. He is a member of the Kansas City med. soc, president in i860 and 1876; of the Kansas City dis't med. soc.; of the Mo. Slate med. soc, president in 1870, dele- gate thence to the conventions of the Am. med. asso. in 1872-73, and honorary meml)er of the Kansas State med. soc, and of the dis't ined. soc. of N. W. Mo. Since 1870 he has been prof, of the prin. and prac of med. in tlie Kansas City coll. of pliys. and surg., and in March, 1877, was elected president of the faculty of that institution. Of his profes- sional pulilications may be mentioned — Points of Analogy betv^^een Typhoid Fever and the Exanthematoe: an Argument in P'avor of its Specific Nature, Kansas City Medical and Surgical Review, July No., i860; Malarial Poison and the Variety of its Manifestations, Kansas City Medical Journal, Aug. and Oct. Nos., 1871 ; Re- marks on the Pathology and Treatment of Intestinal Colic, Kansas City Medical Jour- nal, Dec. No., 1872; Chronic Pulmonary Consolidations of Inflammatory Origin, and their Terminations, read jjefore Kansas Ciiy dis't med. soc, Jan., 1875. In 1847 he entered the U. S. volunteer service as a private in the 1st 111. infantry; was appointed at Fort Leavenworth (the medical staff assigned \.ct the regiment failing to re])ort for duty) acting ass't surg., which position he filled until llie end of the war. In Dec, 1S47, 1^^ was de- tailed in charge of the gen. hosp. at Santa Fe, and in the ensuing February was transferred to the hospital at Albutjuerque, where he remained until ordered home to be mustered out of theservice. He married, June 4th, 1850, Julia E., daughter of John Horner, Esq., of Lebanon, 111. McKEAN, JOHN, Crestline, Ohio, was born in Hook Town, Beaver co., Pa., Feb. 4th, 1810, of American parentage. After pursuing a thorough classical and mathemati- cal education, he entered upon the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Samuel Quigley, of West Union, Ohio, and also attended lec- tures at Lexington, Ky. Having passed the necessary examination before the medical ex- amining board of the 17th med. dis't of Ohio, organized under the then existing law, he re- ceived his necessary papers in Oct., 1831, and leaving his preceptor's office, entered into part- nership with Dr. Marshall, of Burgettstown, Pa. About a y-ear after he opened an office, having dissolved partnership, in Calcutta, Ohio. Two years after, in 1834, he removed to Leesville, Crawford co., Ohio, where he continued till 1867, and then went to live in Crestline, where he has since continued to practise. Since 1844 he has held the office of ruling elder in the Presbyterian church, and in 1847 was elected a member of the philosoph. soc. of Wittenburg coll. He was elected mayor of Crestline in 1871. He was united in marriage with Rebecca McClaskey, in Oct., 1835. HELM, JOHN HAMPTON, Peru, Ind., was born at Elizabethton, Carter co., Tenn., April 23d, 1826. His paternal grand- father served eight years in the revolutionary army, and afterwards settled in Charleston, Va., where his father, Dr. John C. Helm, was born. His maternal grandfather was Maj. John Hampton, of South Carolina, who served under Gen. Jackson. His mother was Amy (Hampton) Helm. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Pliny M. Crume, of Eaton, Ohio, in 1844, and com- pleted his studies with Dr. Charles L. Avery, demons, of anat. in the med. coll. of Ohio. He graduated in March, 1847, at that institu- tion, and commenced practice with his precep- tor Dr.Crume,inEaton. He travelled through Mexico, California, Oregon, Central America and the West Indies, in 1848-49-50, and part of 1851, and on returning again entered into practice with Dr. Crume, with whom he$

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