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BELT

with the Progress of Mankind under Divine Guidance," Louisville, 1869.

"A Pseudo-critic Unmasked," in a re- view of the writings of E. S. Gaillard, Louisville, 1S69. Reprinted from "Nash- ville Journal of Medicine and Surgery," 1869.

Memorial address upon "The Life and Service of Lunsford Pitts Yandell, M. D.," Louisville, Kentucky, 187S.

D. T. S.

Am. Fract., Louisville, 1SS5, vol. xxxi. Louisville Med. News, 18S5, vol. xix. Gaillard's Med. Jour., N. Y., 18S5, vol. xxxix.

Bellinger, John (1S04-1S60).

John Bellinger was born in St. Bar- tholomew's Parish, South Carolina, in 1804. His father, Dr. John Bellinger, a worthy and esteemed physician, was the descendant of an old English family, which settled at an early date, under the proprietary government, in Charleston. He began the study of medicine in this city, under the elder North. His first two courses of lectures on medicine were followed at the then recently established medical college of the state of South Car- olina; but his preparatory training was completed in Philadelphia, where he en- joyed the private tuition of the late Dr. Physiek, and attended at the University of Pennsylvania, from whose medical department he received his diploma in 1826.

In 1S48, when Dr. S. H. Dickson ac- cepted a call to the University of New York, Dr. Bellinger's high reputation at once singled him out as the fittest suc- cessor as professor of surgery. InlS46he did a deliberate hysteromyomectomy on a colored woman, using "animal liga- tures. "

The patient died of peritonitis on the fifth day.

As a teacher of medicine, he was ready, full and erudite. As a writer, his style was terse, direct and chaste; his expres- sion forcible and idiomatic, and his thought always characterized by indepen- dence, originality and vigor.

He died in Charleston, South Carolina.

on the thirteenth day of August, 1860, in the fifty-sixth year of his age.

Charleston Med. Jour, and Review, 1S60, vol.

Bellisle, Henry (1675-1717).

(The first physician at Detroit Post under the French flag.) Nothing is known of his ancestry or exact date of birth except that he was born in France and received such general and professional education as would induce the French government to place him in Cadillac's expedition to found Detroit. In the records of St. Anne's Church in Detroit he first appears as god-father at the baptism of a daughter of Margaret Roy, a Huron Indian, April 27, 1704. From that date till April 4, 1711, he is occas- ionally recorded as god-father at baptisms or witness at marriages and then he dis- appears from the records. It is quite likely that in 1715 he was transferred to another French military post, for his suc- cessor appears first in the church records of that year. While we have no definite information of his equipment for practice he must have ranked above the average of the profession in France.

Dr. Bellisle was married three times, once before coming to Detroit, once in Detroit, and once at Poine Aux Trembles. His second wife died in Detroit. Three children were born after leaving Detroit. L. C.

Belt, Edward Oliver (1S61-1906).

Edward Oliver Belt was born May 19, 1S61 at Rock Hall, near Dickerson, Fred- erick County, Maryland, the son of John Lloyd and Sarah Elenora (McGill) Belt. His father was a farmer. The Hon. Wil- liam Burgess, an ancester, had brought a colony to Maryland and founded the town of South River. He attended public schools and Frederick College, Maryland, and studied medicine with his brother, Dr. Alfred M. Belt, of Baltimore, attend- ing three sessions at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, taking his M. D. there in 1SS6. He prac- tised medicine a few months in Frederick