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having accepted the Chair of Anatomy in the medical College of Ohio; in 1852 he was transferred to the Chair of Surgery in the same institution; in 1865 he was Government Inspector of Hospitals, and the following year went to Europe where he remained until 1S75 when he removed to Baltimore, and on March 13, of the following year he died there.

Dr. Baxley, was a thorough anatomist, and an able teacher and surgeon. Among his operations was entire removal of the lower jaw for osteosarcoma (reported 1839). Among his more important writ- ings were two works written while he was abroad, "What I saw on the West Coast of North and South America and at the Hawaiian Islands," New York, 1865, 632 pages, illustrated; "Spain, Art Remains, Art Realities, Painters, Priests and Princes, being Notes of Things seen and Opinions formed during nearly Three Years Residence and Travel in that Country," two volumes, London, 1875.

Dr. Baxley incurred the enmity of the Medical Faculty of the University of Maryland, who thought that he sided with the Trustees in the differences that arose between the two bodies, and it was his election to the chair of anatomy in that institution by the latter in 1S37 that led to the disruption of the school, to the two medical faculties, to the famous suit of Regents vs. Trustees, and to the restoration of the institution to the Regents by the Court of Appeals of Maryland in 1839. Baxley left one son, Claude, who followed his father's pro- fession. (Cordell's History, 1907, for portrait.) E. F. C.

Baxter, Jedediah Hyde (1S37-1S90). Born in Stafford County, Orange, Ver- mont, Jedediah Hyde Baxter, surgeon- general of the United States Army, re- ceived his education at the University of Vermont and graduated in medicine at the same institution in 1860. When the Civil War broke out he at once offered his service to his country and was com- missioned surgeon in the twelfth Massa-

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chusetts Volunteers June 26, 1861. Ap- pointed brigade surgeon of volunteers in 1862, he was shortly afterwards put in charge of Campbell General Hospital at Washington and in 1863 was made chief medical officer of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau. In this position he compiled the " Medical Statistics of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau." This work, which includes a valuable anthropometric treatise, contains the results of the examinations of more than a million of men enrolled in the Union Army during the great war and was published in two large volumes in 1875. In 1S67 Baxter was appointed medical purveyor with the rank of lieutenant colonel and promoted to chief medical purveyor with the rank of colonel in 1874. August 16, 1890, he was appointed surgeon-general of the army but his career was suddenly cut short four months later. He died of an attack of uremia December 7, of the same year. A. A.

Pilcher, Surgeon-Generals of the Army, Car- lisle, Pa., 1S95.

Bayard, William (1S14-1907).

William Bayard was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia August 24, 1S14, the son of Dr. Robert Bayard, a professor in med- cine in New York at the time of the war of 1812, and who at that date returned to his former home in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

When twelve years of age, William was sent to Fordham, New York. Subse- quently he attended medical lectures in New York City and had private instruc- tions from Dr. Valentine Mott. From New York he went to Edinburgh Univer- sity, where he received his M. D. in 1837. After this he spent some time in the hos- pitals of the Continent, then became asso- ciated with his father in practice in St. John, New Brunswick.

It is seldom that any man has com- manded the esteem of both his medical brethren and the general public to such a degree as did Dr. Bayard.

He was instrumental in establishing