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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![two cases of rupture of uterus during labor, one from excessive labor pains and the other from disease of the walls of the uterus. He is a member of the Chemung med. soc, and was its president during 1S73. He is the translator of Huebner's article on Syphilis of the Spinal Cord for vol. XH of Ziems- sen's Cyclo])£edia of the Practice of Medicine. He was president of the board of health of the city of Elmira during 1872, 1874, 1875, ^^ 1876, and was ass't health officer in 1S77; also phys. to the N. Y. State reformatory at Elmira, and sanitary sup't of the public schools of the city of Elmira. In 1851 he was married at Danville, N. Y. KUHN, LOUIS DeBARTH, Reading, Pa., son of Col. Kuhn, now associate judge at Gettysburg, Pa., and of Miss Mc- Cabe, of St. Louis, Mo., born at East Berlin, Adams co.. Pa., Oct. 22d, 1829, received his collegiate education at Mt. St. Mary's coll., Emmittsburg, Md., during 1845, 1846, and 1S47; h's pharmaceutical education at the Philadelphia coll. of pharmacy during 1851 ; and iiis medical education at the univ. of Pa. in 1854, and at the Jefferson med. coll., at which he graduated in 1S55. He settled in Philadelphia in 1854. During 1855 and 1856 served as surg. on board the U. S. cutter Lane, between Norfolk, Va., and San Francisco, Cal. In 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, i860, and 1S61, he was in the U. S. army, a part of which time, 1859, attached to the boundary commission, surveying the 49th parallel, department of the Pacific; in 1861, 1862, 1863 wassurg. to theU. S. marine hosp., Pugetsound; in 1864, 1865, 1866, and 1867 pursued a private practice in Port Townsend, Washington Territory. He settled in Read- ing in 186S. He is a member of the Berks CO. med. soc, was its censor and recording secretary in 1S68, 1869, and 1870, vice-presi- dent in 1874, and president in 1876 and 1877; also of the Reading med. asso., presi- dent in 1870 and 1S77 ; he has also been dele- gate to the Slate med. asso., and to the Am. med. asso.; was med. attendant to Berks co. almshouse in 1874, and is at present phys. to Berks co. jail. In Jan., 1874, he married Amelia, daughter of F. W. Pettygrove, Esq., of Port Richmond, Puget Sound, W. T. POPE, JOHN HUNTER, Marshall, Texas, son of Alexander Pope and Sarah (Willie) Pope, was born in Washing- ton, Wilkes CO., Ga., Feb. 12th, 1845. His literary education was received at academies in Washington, Ga., and Marshall, Texas, and at the univ. of Va., and his medical education at the univ. of La., the clinics at the charity hosp.. New Orleans, and at the univ. of Va., graduating from the latter in July, 1868. He first began practice at Milford, Ellis co., Texas, in 1869, but in 1S70 removed to Mar- shall, where he has since resided. He is a member of the Harrison co. med. asso., and of the Texas State med. a.sso.; was secretary of the former in 1874 and 1875, and first vice- president of the latter in 1S76-77. He is the author of History of Epidemic of Yellow Fever at Marshall, Texas, 1873, Report on Climatology and Epidemics of Texas, 1874, Report on Science and Progress of Medicine, 1875, etc. He was a private sol- dier in the Confederate army from 1862 to 1865, and in 1877 he was appointed member of the State board of medical examiners for the 2d judicial district of Texas. In Dec, 1872, he married Mar- Eloise Tarleton ; she died in Sept., 1873. TAYLOR, J. HOWARD, Philadelphia, Pa., born in Kennett Square, Chester CO., Pa., received his academic education at Kennett Square and in West Chester, Pa., and his medical education in the med. dep'tof the univ. of Pa., graduating from the latter in March, 1852, establishing himself first at Ken- nett Square, and afterwards in Philadelphia. He has held the positions of port phys. and lazaretto phys., and has had charge of the municipal hosp. of Philadelphia. He en- tered the Union army at the outbreak of the war of the rebellion ; he entered a regiment of three months' men as regimental surg. ; was subsequently made brigade surg., and placed in charge of the Irish brigade; then surg.- in-chief 1st division 2d army corps; med. director 2d army corps ; med. inspector army of the Potomac; and surg. in charge of the Summit House U. S. army gen. hosp. He was subsequently brevetted lieut.-col. of U. S. volunteers. McKEE, JAMES, Raleigh, N. C, was born in that city, Jan. 5th, 1844, son of Dr. W. H. McKee. Received his early education in Raleigh; entered the univ. of N. C. in i860. After eighteen months left the univ. to join the army as a private. After the war, in which he rose to be lieutenant, he studied medicine in his father's office, and graduated from Bellevue hosp. med. coll.. New York, in 1869. Began practice in Rr- leigh. Is a member of the Raleigh acad. of med., and of the med. soc. of the State of N. C, of which, in Ajiril, 1871, he was elected secretary, an office he still holds ; has been al- derman of the city. Was married, Sept. 30th, 1873, to Mildred Sasser, of Raleigh, N. C. ■](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0809.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
