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murderer of our own creating, " and due partly to a filthy harbor. He noticed it was worse when the West India ships came in the summer and did not rest until he had obtained moderately good quaran- tine laws.

Like many another of our fraternity his life was forfeited to duty. In 1S01 he found fever on an Irish emigrant ship and ordered the passengers to go on shore to the tents and rooms provided but to leave their baggage on board. In the morning he found the well and the sick with all baggage huddled together in one big room. The atmosphere into which Bayley walked can be imagined. He stayed a while directing matters but was soon after seized with intense pain in the stomach and head. He had to go home to bed in the afternoon and died seven days after, a most serious loss in every way to his city. Thacher says he was a perfect gentleman; inflexible in attach- ments, invincible in his dislikes, in temper fiery, but a busy surgeon fighting opposi- tion in his own branch and dull ignorance in health officers may perhaps have had some of that "fiery temper" put to his credit as righteous anger. D. W.

Allibone, vol. i. Thacher, Med. Biog.

Baylies, William (1743-1S26).

William Baylies, physician, was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, December 5, 1743, the son of Nicholas Baylies, a native of Shropshire, England, who emigrated to Uxbridge and later moved to Taunton, a town which he represented several years in the General Court. William grad- uated from Harvard College in 1760 and studied medicine with Dr. Elisha Tobey, of New Bedford, at the completion of his course marrying a daughter of the Hon. Samuel White, of Taunton, speaker of the House of Representatives, and settling as a physician in the town of Dighton.

Dr. Baylies' activities in life were many. He represented Dighton in the Legisla- ture, and in three Provincial Congresses, was a member of the State Convention that adopted the Federal Constitution;

a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and for a long time register of probate, but chiefly he was a doctor, and he was much in demand as a consultant, being particularly noted for his acumen in prognosis. He read much and was prudent and cautious but not timid.

He was one of the original members of the Massachusetts Historical and Massa- chusetts Medical Societies and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1807 Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of M. D.

He died June 17, 1S26. He was the author of "Ulcerated Sore Throat in Dighton, 1785-6," Communications, Massachusetts Medical Society, vol. i, series 1. W. L. B.

Hist. Har. Med. School, T. F. Harrington. Ulcerated Sore Throat in Dighton, Med. Com. Mass. Med. Soc, vol. i, series 1.' Williams, S. W. Amer. Med. Biog., 1S45.

Bayly, Alexander Hamilton (1S14-1S92).

Alexander Hamilton Bayly was born in Cambridge, Maryland, on March 3, 1814, the son of the Hon. Josiah Bayly, at one time attorney-general of Maryland, and of Anne Hack Waters of Somerset County, Maryland. He received his early education at the High School, Cambridge, and at fourteen entered St. Mary's College, Baltimore, completing his education at Washington College (now Trinity), Hartford, Connecticut, in 1S32. He then began to study medicine under Dr. Vans Murray Sulivane of Cam- bridge, Maryland, and in 1833 worked under Prof. Samuel Baker of Baltimore, graduating from the University of Mary- land in 1835. He became a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty and president of the State Board of Lunacy. During the Civil War, Dr. Bayly was the surgeon-in-charge of the Military Hos- pital in Cambridge.

Dr. Bayly was specially efficient as a surgeon, and as early as 1S39 did an exci- sion of the tibia, and in 1S46 was the first to employ the horse-shoe magnet to remove a piece of metal from the cornea.