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the Iliac Fossa, with a New Method of Treatment." ("New York Journal of Medicine," 1857.)

"Case of Aneurysm of the Femoral Artery, for which ligatures were success- full}' ap[ilieil to the femoral, profunda, external and common iliacs, occurring in the New York Hospital." ("New York Journal of Medicine," 1S5S.)

"Improved Method of Treating Frac- tures of the Thigh." (Illustrated; also table of statistics.) ("Transactions of Academy of Medicine of New York," 1861.)

"The Operation for Strangulated Her- nia, without opening the sac." ("Bul- letin of the New York Academy of Medi- cine," February, 1863.)

" Lithotomy and Lithotrity." ("Trans- actions of State Medical Society of New York," 1869.)

"A Contribution to the Surgical Ther- apeutics of the Air Passages." ("Trans- actions of New York Academy of Medi- cine," 1870.)

"Femoral Aneurysm in the Groin, successfully treated by flexion of the limb, after a relapse following a previous apparent cure by compression." ("Am- erican Journal of Medical Sciences," January. 1S70.)

"A Case of Edema Glottidis ; n which a patient was resuscitated by the opera- tion of tracheotomy after respiration had ceased." ("Medical Record," October, 1870.)

"A Case of Strangulated Hernia of the Tunica Vaginalis of rare variety, operation : gangrene, death." ("American Journal Medical Sciences," 1871.)

"On Abscesses originating in the Right Iliac Fossa, with table of statistics." ("Transactions of the Academy of Medi- cine of New York," 1S76.)

"Migration of Pus. ("Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal," March, 1876.)

Wed. Uec, N. York, 1877.

Mad. and Surg. R< p., Phila., 1865.

Tr. Med. Soc. of New York, 1877.

Distinguished Living Now York Physicians.

Francis, 1866.

Buckingham, Charles Edward (1S21- 1877).

Charles E. Buckingham was born in Cambridge, June 27, 1S21, the son of an influential newspaper editor of the day.

He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1S40 and from the Harvard Medical School in 1S44. In college he developed a taste for chemistry and was employed as a student assistant to Prof. John White Webster. Early after graduation he became physician to the Boston Dispensary and to the Home of Industry, which gave him clinical advan- tages improved by keeping careful notes of cases.

In 1847, together with a number of physicians of about his own age, several of whom became distinguished in later life, he formed the Boylston Medical School. This school, in which he had charge of instruction in obstetrics and diseases of women and children, was an ambitious one; and established a partly graded course as early as 1850. He was unable, however, to get its charter ex- tended to the granting of degrees, and owing to this and to increased difficulty in getting anatomical material, it was abandoned in 1855. Within a few weeks of this abandonment of instruction Dr. Buckingham resigned his clinical appoint- ments which had now become less valu- able to him, and for the next ten years held no appointment of any kind except that he inspected hospitals on the Ohio river for the sanitary commission for a month during the Civil War.

On the establishment of the Boston City Hospital he was made visiting sur- geon and there gave a course of clinical lectures on his own account. In the same year, after consultation with his colleagues of the hospital, he accepted the appointment of adjunct professor of theory and practice of medicine in Harvard University, later becoming professor of obstetrics, which appoint- ment, he held at the time of his death in 1877. He was also consulting physician to the Boston Lying-in Hospital His