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 BRACHETT

BRADBURY

Up to 1SSS, Bozeman did much original work in the hospitals, specially in renal surgery, then finding the time and labor necessary for his bladder and kidney cases in the Woman's Hospital so exacting he opened a private sani- torium and a year later resigned his eleven years' professorship.

On October 25, 1852, he married Fannie Lamar of Macon, Georgia and had four children, Geraldine, Nathan Gross, Fan- nie Rylance and Mary. His second wife, 1861, was Mrs. Amelia Lamar Ralston of Macon.

He died on December 16, 1905, in New York of cerebral hemorrhage and was buried in Macon.

His writings — all valuable — included papers on:

"Remarkson Vesicovaginal Fistula with an Account of a New Suture;" "The Mechanism of Retroversion and Prolap- sus of the Uterus;" "Removal of a Cyst Weighing Twenty and One-half Pounds;" 1S61; "On Genital Renovation;" "The Value of Graduated Pressure in the Treat- ment of Disease of the Vagina, Uterus and Ovaries;" "History of Clamp Sut- ures;" "Extrauterine Fetation;" also the "Early History of Ovariotomy" which was published by his grand-daughter in the "Biography of Ephriam McDowell."

N. B., Jr.

See Surg. Gen. Cat.. Wash., D. C, for a

tolerably complete list of writings.

Brachett, Joshua (1733-1802).

Joshua Brachett was born in Green- land, New Hampshire, May, 1733.

A good scholar, he entered Harvard in 1748 at the age of fifteen and, after grad- uation in 1752, attended to the publica- tion of various works on the science of theology. In selecting the ministry for a profession he consulted the wishes of his parents more than his own inclina- tions and pursued his studies and was licensed as a preacher, but his health soon became impaired and he was obliged to give up work.

He began to study medicine with Dr. Clement Jackson of Portsmouth and in

three years was practising in Portsmouth where he continued to his death.

His ability was recognized and he was chosen an honorary member of the Mass- achusetts Medical Society, October 30, 17s:i, in 1792 being given a medical doc- torate by his alma mater.

Dr. Brachett was one of the incorpor- ators of the New Hampshire Medical So- ciety in 1791 and its first vice-president, and president in 1793.

He had the largest medical library in the state, consisting of over one hundred and forty volumes, which on his retire- ment from office he presented to the New Hampshire Medical Society as foundation for a medical library.

Dr. Brachett held the office of judge of the Maritime Court during the revolution until the adoption of the federal consti- tution in 1784.

A great reader, especially of natural science, he studied zoology and botany and was interested in founding a pro- fessorship in these branches at Harvard, and therefore he was very much pleased, when only a few weeks before his death, several thousand dollars were subscribed for carrying out his cherished plan. He left a request with his wife that a certain piece of property of the value of $1,500, wdien she should have done with it, should be added to the fund, a wish carried out, with an additional $500, a bequest of her own.

His reading was extensive and his ob- servations accurate. He was a man of warm friendship and great benevolence.

In early life Dr. Brachett married Hannah Whipple of Maine.

He died of valvular heart disease July 17, 1802. I. J. P.

Bradbury, James Crockett (1S06-1865). In the days when capital operations „,.,,. r afely well done, Dr. James Crockett Bradbury did more than one and with ex- cellent results. For that reason his life is worth recording more carefully than has before been done. He was born at Bux- ton, Maine, March 5, 1806, worked on a farm, and studied during every spare mo-