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 BOISLINIERE

BOND

tribute was paid the memory of the gallant Bohune.

Purchas used the incident in "Purchas his Pilgrimage," and Captain John Smith recited an account of it in his His- tory of Virginia. George Deseler wrote of it in Amsterdam, and "Thomas Hothersell, late zitysone and groser of London being an I witness an interpreter in this exployte," left a description in manuscript which is still in existence. C. C. M.

From an account by Caleb Clarke Magruder in the Interstate Med. Jour., St. Louis, June, 1910.

Boisliniere, Louis Charles (1S16-1896). Louis Charles Boisliniere was born September 2, 1816 on the island of Gaudeloupe, West Indies, of one of the oldest families of the island. His father was a wealthy sugar planter and took his son to France in 1825 in order that he might have every advantage attain- able. Here thirteen years were spent in scientific, classical and legal studies at the most celebrated institutions of the day. Young Boisliniere took a diploma as licentiate in law at the University of France and returned to Gaudeloupe in 1839 after the death of both parents. Some months there and an extensive journey through South America made him determine to leave the West Indies entirely and settle in the United States. In 1X12 he landed in New Orleans but went almost immediately to Lexington, Kentucky, where he received polite at- tention from Henry Clay's family to whom he had brought letters of introduc- tion. In 1817 his attention was attracted by the advantages that seemed to be afforded to young men in St. Louis, so he went there, continued his medical studies commenced in France, and in 184S gradu- ated in medicine in the medical depart- ment of the St. Louis University. lie im- mediately entered into practice. In 1853 Dr Boisliniere took part in establish- ing under the auspices of the Sisters of Charity what is thought to be the first lying-in hospital and foundling asylum

founded in America. In 1858 he was elected coroner of St. Louis County, the first physician who held this office. In 1865 he was elected a member of the Anthropological Society of Paris. He held the professorship of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the St. Louis Medical College and had for a number of years a clinic for the diseases of women at the St. Louis (Sisters) Hospital. For two successive years he was president of the St. Louis Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. In 1S79 he re- ceived the degree of LL. D. from the St. Louis University. He died in St. Louis January 13, 1896. W. B. O.

Med. Mirror, St. Louis, 1S90. vol. i.

Tr. Am. Ass. Obstet. and Gyn., 1S95, Phila.,

1S96, vol. viii.

Bolton, James (1812-1869).

James Bolton was born in Savannah, Georgia, June 5, 1812, his early life being spent in Savannah and later in New York, where he was educated, graduating as A. B. from Columbia in 1831. He then studied medicine at the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of New York, grad- uating in 1836 when he took up the study of eye and ear diseases and under Dr. Kearney Rogers he assisted the great operator Dr. Mott. Subsequently he settled in Richmond, where he enjoyed a large practice until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he joined the confed- erate forces as surgeon and served with devotion during the entire war. At its close he returned to Richmond and re- sumed practice; but his life was cut short by Bright's disease on May 15, 1869. His interest in ophthalmology was shown in his Treatise on "Strabismus" published in 1842.

Dr. Bolton stood at the very head of the profession in Virginia for many years. H. F.

Trans. Am. Med. Assoc, vol. xxxi.

Bond, Thomas (1712-1784).

Thomas Bond may with justice be con- sidered one of the foremost eighteenth century medical men in America becavj e