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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![soc. Is prof, of physiology, comparative anatomy and hygiene in the med. dep't of the iiniv. of Ala. He was ass't surg. in the U. S. n^vy, and aflerwaids surgeon in the Confed- erate States navy. HULL, WILLIAM R., Williamsport, Pa., was born at Milton, Northumber- land CO., Pa., and prepared for college at Tus- c irora acad. He graduated- from the med. dep't univ. of Pa. in 1858, and began practice in Hepb'.irnville, Lycoming co., moving to Williamsport, April, 1869. He is a member of the Lycoming co. med, soc.; of the med. .10c. of the State of Pa.; has been several times elected president of the co. soc; and has served as censor of the State soc. Dur- ing thi wir he was ass't surg. in the 171st Pa. reg. He is a charter member of Williams- pirt hosp. asso., and secretary of the hosp. b)-ird. 02t. io:h, iSSo, he married J. M. WiJlard, of Williamsport. RICHARDSON, EDWARD, Louisville, Ky., of Irish extraction, originally, on hn lather's side, from ancestry wiio .served under Cromwell, bora in Virginia, June 26th, 1S32; educated at Bethany coll.. West Va. ; graduated in medicine from the Transylvania univ., Lexington, Ky., in 18150, and settled first in Fayette co., then in Mercer co., then in Wayne co., and after the war, in which he ]>irticipated, in Louisville. He is a menb.'r of the Am. med. asso., of the Ky, State med, soc, and of the coll. of phys. and surg., Louis- ville, and was one of the board of censors of the latter in 1872 and 1873. He is the author of the Use of Sulphur in Angina Pectoris, Conservative Surgery in Injury of Joints, on Transfusion of Blood in Diabetes, on Medical Education, read before the Ky. State med. soc, etc. He served in the Union army in the late war as surg. of the 12th Ky. vol. infantry. PILLOCK, A. M., Pittsburgh, Pa., is a permanent memi>er of the med. soc. of the State of Pa., to which he was admitted a member in i87l,and of which he was elected president in 1872. He is a member, also, of the Am. med. asso., and was sent by it as a delegate to the International med. congress, Philadelphia, 1876. FORBES, WILLIAM S., Philadelphia, Pa., graduated from the med, dep't of the univ. of Pa. in 1866. He was formerly surg. to the Episcopal hosp. During the war he served in the army, and his graduating thesis was on the treatment of the wounded men of the 13th army corps during the siege of Vicksburg. For years he was prominent as a lecturer on anatomy, attracting very large private classes. He is a member of the pa- thol. soc, of Philadelphia. STARLEY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Mexia, Texas, was born in Nacogdoches CO., Texas, Sept, 4th, 1S43, Having received a common school education, he took his first course of medical lectures at the med. dep't of the univ. of La., and his seccnd at Long Island coll. hosp., Brooklyn, N. Y., frcm which he graduated in June, 1871. He set- tled first in Fairfield, Freestone co., Texas, whence Le moved, April, l?73, to Mexia, Limestone co., going thence, May, 1S76, toCcr- sicana, Navarro co., returning, May, 1877, to Mexia. He makes a specialty of gynsecology. He is a memljcr of the Limestone co. med. soc. In the civil war he served as a private in the Confederate army. He married Dec. 13th, 1871. STILLMAN, J. D. BAECOCK, San Fran- cisco, Cal., son of Joseph Stillman, of Westerly, R. I., and of Eliza W. (Maxson) Siillman, of Newport, R. I., both descended from early English settlers of that colony, was born in Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. 2lst, 1819, He graduated from the Union coll,, Schenec- tady, in 1843, ^<^ after holding the position of principal in the DeRuyter institute, N. Y., for one year, commenced the study of medi- cine. He first entered the office of Professor Chandler R. Gilman, then that of Professors Parker and Watis, and also studied in the coll. of phys. and surg., whence he graduated in 1847. Commencing practice in New York he shortly after, in 1849, embarked as surgeon with a company of young men for the gold legions, via Cr.pe Horn. He re- mained at Sacramento a year in charge of a hospital (in company with Dr. J. F. Morse), and then returning resumed practice again in New York. The years 1852 and 1853 were spent in foreign travel and visits to European hospitals. In 1856 he became surg. of the Pacific mail steamship company, and located at Sacramento in 1858. In 1861 he removed to San Francisco. His practice is general, and botany in .science has been his favorile study. He was a member of the New Yoik pathol. soc, and cones, member of the New York lyceum of natural history. He is now member of the Cal. acad. of sciences, and was corres. member of the med. soc. of Cal., organ- ized in 1850. In Nov., 1851, he published in the New York Jotirnal of Mediciiie a paper on the Climate and Diseases of the Sacra- mento Valley, besides other papers in the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0814.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
