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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![the latter. lie is the author of articles on Mycosis Cerebri, in lVag}ier''s Archives d. Heilkun, and on Carbolic Acid in Con- sumption, in Wiener Presse. In Nov., 1877, he was appointed prof, of materia medica and lecturer on pathology in the Pacific med. coll. WILSON, ELLWOOD, Philadelphia, Pa., is a native of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Jefferson med. coll. in 1845. He has always practised in Philadel- phia, and for many years has been prominent as an obstetrician. Is one of the trustees of the Jefferson med. coll., and was formerly lecturer at the Nurses' home on obstetrics and diseases of women, being now one cf the consulting physicians and managers of the institution. He is married. His son, Dr. James C. Wilson, is one of the 2:>hysicians to the Jefferson coll. hosp. PETERSON, FRANCIS \l., Greensboro', Ala., graduated from the med. dep't of the univ. of N. Y. in 1S65. Is a member of the med. soc. of Greensboro'; of the med. asso. of Ala., and councillor of the same. Has contributed papers to the Transactions of the. med. asso. of Ala. Professor of materia medica and obstetrics in the Southern univ., Greensboro'. ARNOLD, S. AUGUSTUS, Providence, R. I., became a member of the R. I. med. soc. i;i 1822, and served as its president in 1849-50. He is also a member of the Providence med. asso.; and secretary to the trustees of the Fiske fund, established by Dr. Caleb Fiske, formerly president of the R. I. med. soc. for the payment of premiums for prize dissertations. He is one of the con- sulting physicians and surgeons of Rhode Island hosp., at Providence. MURRAY, ROBERT DRAY, Key \Vest, Fla., son of Joseph A. ]\Iur- ray and Nancy (Drew) Murray, of Scotch, Dutch and Irish lineage, was born at Ohl- ton, Trumbull co., O., April 21st, 1845. He was educated at a common school in Bluff- ton, O., and pursued his medical studies at the Cleveland med. coll., O., the Jefferson med. coll., Philadelphia, and in the med. dep't of the univ. of Pa. He graduated from the Cleveland med. coll. in 1868 (and from Ihe Jefferson in 1S71), and settled in Cleve- 1-ind ill 1869, and in Key West as surgeon in the U. S. Marine hosp. service in April, 1872. He was elected a member of the acad. of med. of Cleveland in 1S69; of the Am. med. asso. and of the Philadelphia hosp. med. soc. in 1870, of the latter he was secretary the same year, and president in 1871; of the Am. public health asso.; and of the Key West med. soc. in 1872, of the latter he was trustee in 1874, president in 1877, and is now presi- dent; and of the Florida med. asso. in i875> of which he was vice-president in 1S77. He was also a member of the State ]iharmaceuli- cal convention in 1870, and of the Inter- national med. congress held in Philadelphia in 1876. His contributions to medical literature consist of Observations on Electrolysis ; on Yellow Fever at Key West in 1S75; on Medical Topography of Key West; on Ships' Medicine Chests, etc., etc. He was demonstrator of anatomy at Cleveland med. coil, in 1868, 1869 and 1S70; demon- strator at the Philadelphia school of anatomy in 1870 and 1871, and for a period of fifteen months during the latter years was resident physician at the Philadelphia hosp. In 1877 he served for five weeks as volunteer surgeon during the prevalence of yellow fever in Fer- nandina. He was a jirivate in the ^\\\ Ohio vol. infantry from April, 1S61, to Nov., 1862; he then became a private in the 12th Ohio vol. cavalry from Sept., 1863, to J'.ily, 1865. While in the 7th Ohio his arm was broken at Cross Lane, Va., Aug., 1861, and he was wounded in the knee at Cedar Mountain in Aug., 1862; his arm was again broken at Mt. Sterling, Ky., in June, 1864; h^ was severely wounded in the head at Saltville, Va., in Oct., 1864. He also passed four and a half months in Southern prison hospitals. In 1S65 and 1866 he was postmaster of Bluff- ton, O., and during 1871 and 1S72 was surgeon on board the U. S. coast steamer Bache. Since 1873 he has continually urged the establishment of a board of health in Florida. In April, 1875, he married Lillie Belle, daughter of Rev. Charles A. Fulwood, of Florida. MUSSEY, WTLLIAM IIEBERDEN, Cincinnati, O., son of Reuben D. Mussey, of French extraction, and ILtty (Osgood) Mussey, of English descent, whose ancestry settled in Chebago, now Ipswich, Mass., in 1632, born in Hanover, N. H., Sept. 30th, 1818, was educated at Moore's Indian charity acad., Hanovef, at the Meri- den, N. IL, acad., and at Phillips' acad., An- dover, Mass., and after studying medicine in the Ohio med. coll., graduated doctor of medicine in the spring of 1S48. The honor- ary degree of A. M. has also been conferred on him by Dartmouth coll. He also passed eighteen months in study in Paris. He settled in Cincinnati, where he made a specialty of general surgery. He is a member of the Am.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0790.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
