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 BUCKLER

BUDD

City Hospital appointment was resigned because of the pressure of other work.

He was an original member of the Boston Society for Medical Observation, then an active clinical society, and was also a member of the Obstetrical Society of Boston, and of the American Gyneco- logical Society. He was a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society and an honorary fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London.

Dr. Buckingham died in Boston Feb- ruary 19, 1S77. Dr. D. W. Cheever says of him as a surgeon at the Boston City Hospital: "He always had new ideas; usually practical, sometimes eccentric, frequently brilliant. He was a tireless worker, he never gave up a case; was full of expedients; and his advice was usually wise and judicial." W. L. B.

Biog. by son, Edward M. Buckingham, M. D.

History of Boston City Hospital, 1906, D. W.

Cheever, M. D.

Trans. Amer. Gyn. Soc, 1877, vol. ii, G. H.

Lyman, M. D.

Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, March 11,

1877.

Buckler, Thomas, Hepburn (1812-1901).

One of two brothers, Baltimore doctors, he was born at Evergreen, Maryland on January 4, 1812 and educated at St. Marys' College, Baltimore, taking his M. D. in 1835 with a thesis on "Animal Heat." He afterwards practised in this city as physician to the City Almshouse, and from 1866 to 1890 he became a Paris doctor under a license from the French government, then returned to Baltimore.

He was best known as a teacher and writer. His views were independent and original — some said original even to eccen- tricity. Quinan, in his "Medical Annals of Baltimore" gives a list of thirty-two of his writings, a great many of them on sanitary and social subjects among other things, the filling up the " Basin" or inner harbor of Baltimore, with "Federal Hill," and the introduction of the waters of the Gunpowder River for the supply of Balti- more. The latter of these recommenda- tions was carried out many years later. He introduced phosphate of ammonia for

the treatment of gout and rheumatism, and as a solvent of uric acid calculi, and the lithic acid diathesis generally; also the hydrated succinate of the peroxide of iron for the prevention of gallstones. He laid great stress in the pathology of uter- ine affections on the strangulation of the vessels in the cervix and the resulting engorgement and malnutrition of the organ. More elaborate works are his history of the "Cholera Epidemic of 1849" and a treatise on "Fibro-bronchitis and Rheumatic Pneumonia," 1853.

Dr. Buckler was a man of striking personal appearance and was much sought after on account of his brilliant conversa- tional powers and wit. He never had a large practice; in fact never sought one, and lacked the steadiness and plodding perseverance of his brother. He was twice married and left a son, William H. There are two portraits of Dr. Buckler at the "Medical and Chirurgical Faculty," Baltimore. E. F. C.

Budd, Abram Van Wyck (1S30-1891).

Abram Van Wyck Budd, surgeon, was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, October 17, 1830 and graduated at Mercersburg College in 1847, and from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1S53. While there he was a private pupil of George B. Wood and afterwards spent two years in the Philadelphia ("Blockley") Hospital.

In 1855 a coal company at Egypt, North Carolina, offered young Budd a position as surgeon to their works and six years later, when Civil War came on, he was made surgeon in the confederate army and served throughout the war.

By natural instinct Dr. Budd was gifted as a surgeon, and for many years did all of it in his community. It was crude, but was always thorough and for the most part successful. He removed many ovarian tumors and opened all his intestinal obstruction cases. He was unusually adept in lithotomy and his ' 'high operation " was the subject of much comment in the 'SO's, but he never could be prevailed upon to report any of his