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 BOERSTLER

BOHUNE

The following list of memberships and dignities speak eloquently of her attainments.

1864. Corresponding member, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

1S71. Member, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

1871. Degree of Artium Magister con- ferred by her Cincinnati Alma Mater.

1876. Corresponding Member, New York Academy of Sciences.

1876. Member, American Chemical Society of New York City.

A. B. W.

Woman's Journal, Boston, vol. six. Papers read at the Memorial Hour Commem- oration of the late Prof. Rachel L. Bodley, M. D., Oct. 13, 1888, Phila.

Boerstler, George W. (1792-1S71).

George W. Boerstler was born in 1792 and died October 10, 1871. He was born in Funkstown, Maryland. He was of German descent, his father a Lutheran clergyman. Very little is known of his mother; nor is it known whether there were other children. After three years of preliminary instruc- tion, he received in 1820 his B. M. from the University of Maryland, and, with his diploma, a flattering certificate from Professor Potter of the University.

He began to practise at Hagerstown, Maryland, in is:;:;, but in that year changed his residence to Lancaster, Ohio, where he remained in practice until his death.

He had no specialty, but practised both medicine and surgery, according to the custom of the time, and attained a fine reputation in both departments.

He became a skilful diagnostician, and made few mistakes. His opinion was valued by the laity and equally by the profession, with \vi i he was very popu- lar; his practice was consequently very large.

He married, in L833, Elizabeth Sinks at Eageretown, Maryland. She died in 1838, and in 1843 lie married Elizabeth Schur, of Lancaster, Ohio. He hail children; a daughter by the first wife, and by the second marriage there were two

or more children. George W. Boerstler, one of them, engaged in medical practice in the office occupied by his father.

Dr. George W. Boerstler, Sr., died at Lancaster, Ohio, October 10, 1871, his death being attributed to senility.

He wrote a number of general and pro- fessional addresses of which latter several were published in the medical journals of Columbus and Cincinnati.

So far as is known, no previous sketch or biography has been published; and portraits, if any, are in the possession of Dr. George Boerstler of Lancaster.

Among his published writings are the following :

"Cases Illustrating Thoracic Patho- logy. " (" Western Lancet, " ii, 1843.)

" On the Use of Letheon and Chloro- form in Obstetrics." ("Transactions of the Ohio Medical Convention," 1849.)

"Cholera, its Contagiousness." ("Transactions of the Ohio State Medical Society," 1851.)

"Report on Practical Medicine."

"Uterine Polypus." ("Western Lan- cet," xviii, 1857.)

" Veratrum Viride." (Ibid.)

"Eruptive Disease." ("Transactions of the Ohio State Medical Society," 1861.) S. L.

Cincinnati Med. Observer, xiv, 1871. Trans. Ohio State Med. Soc'y., 1S72. Trans. Am. Med. Assoc, 1S80.

Bohune, Lawrence ( — 1622).

The exact date of the arrival of Dr. Lawrence Bohune, first physician-general to the colony of Virginia, is not known, but it was within the first half of the year 1610, and he was the first physician- general of the London Company ap- pointed for service in the colony.

Of the one hundred and five sot this who reached Jamestown Island on the thirteenth of May, 1607, after one hun- dred and forty-six days out from London, Thomas Wotton, William Wilkinson and Post Ginnet were listed as " Chirurgeons," and Thomas Field and John Harford as apothecai ie

Wotton was the fleet's physician, and