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Chambers Street Hospital, New York, that he did a laparotomy which brought him fame all over the world. The subject was a man who had been shot through the abdomen. Dr. Bull made an incision, removed the intestines, repaired and replaced them. The operation is now a common one, but Dr. Bull's work was of a pioneer character.

He was highly esteemed by the medical profession of the United States, not only because of his skill as a surgeon, but for his sound judgment and the zealous application which he gave to his cases. Dr. Bull was a frequent contributor to the medical literature and his articles included:

"Remarkable Cases of Fracture," 1878. " Xotes on Cases of Hernia which have relapsed after Operation," 1S91.

" On Three Cases of Pylorectomy with Gastroenterostomy," 1891.

He married Mrs. Marie James G. Blaine, Jr., daughter of Col. Richard Kevins. She had suffered from acute rheumatism, and, in spite of a crippled life predicted by her doctors, was entirely cured by Dr. Bull.

Shortly before he was stricken with his fatal illness a young East Side physician called at his office and said that he was attending a poor girl over in his neigh- borhood who would surely die unless operated on. The family was too poor to pay, and the doctor did not feel that he was equal to the operation. Would Dr. Bull give him a little advice?

"Well, I guess we had better go and take a look at the patient," said Dr. Bull. They found the patient in an East Side tenement, and in less time than it takes to tell it Dr. Bull had the room cleared and began the operation.

When he was leaving, the father of the girl met him in the hall and forced a quarter into his hand. Dr. Bull thanked him and went off feeling as happy — happier than if he had received a $1,000 fee.

For several months he had been ill with cancer of the neck and made a brave fight for fife, using all the methods

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of treatment known to science, but without avail. On January 29 he started for Georgia in the hope of being benefited by the milder climate, but improvement was only temporary and he gradually failed and died at Wymberly, Isle of Hope, near Savannah, Georgia, from cancer of the neck, February 22, 1909. D. W.

Jour, of Am. Med. Aas., Feb., 1909. New York daily journals, Feb. 23, 1909.

Buller, Francis (1844-1905).

FrancisBuller, ophthalmologist, wasone of the most eminent specialists Canada has produced in virtue of his work in ophthalmology, his extensive writings, his large practice, his strong personality, and the attractiveness of his character. He was the son of Charles G. Buller, and Frances Elizabeth Boucher. Born at Campbellford, Ontario, on May 4, 1844, he was educated at Peterborough High School and Victoria College, where he graduated in medicine, 1869. Subse- quently, in Europe, he specially studied diseases of the eye, ear, and throat, under Helmholz and von Graefe. During the Franco-Prussian War he served as surgeon in the German military hospitals and afterwards occupied a position on the staff of the Graefe-Ewers Hospital in Berlin. In 1S72 he went to London, and was for four years connected with the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital — for the last two years as chief house surgeon. He was the first to introduce in London the procedure instituted in Germany, of ophthalmic examination by the " direct method." He became a mem- ber of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and in 1876 returned to Canada where he lived till his death from perni- cious anemia October 11, 1905.

Dr. Buller was the first to give oph- thalmology an independent status in Canada when he was appointed to the Montreal General Hospital in 1877. After seventeen years' service there he accepted the same post in the Royal Victoria Hospital and upon the founda- tion of the chair of ophthalmology and