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 BULLITT

BULLOCK

Bullitt passed the year 184 J in Europe, where he availed himself of every oppor tunity to advance in medical knowledge and returned home liberally equipped with the fruits of his sojourn abroad. In 1846 he was elected a professor in the St. Louis Medical College, and lectured there during the sessions 1846-47 and 1847-48. In 1849 he was called to the chair of ma- teria medica in Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, at that time the oldest and most renowned school in the Ohio valley.

In 1S50 Dr. Bullitt organized the Ken- tucky School of Medicine, which entered upon its career in the winter of 1850-51, and in 1866 was elected to the chair of principles and practice of medicine in the University of Louisville, in 1867 occupy- ing the chair of physiology in the same school.

In 1S6S he established the Louisville Medical College, with which he remained and co-operated several years.

Dr. Bullitt was an able writer on pro- fessional subjects. Prof. Charles Cald- well having published that: "None but professors practically trained in the West and South could competently lecture on western and southern diseases, hence a medical education acquired in the north- ern and eastern cities could not qualify for practice in the West and South," Dr. Bullitt entered an eloquent and po- tent protest against this heresy. This paper was published in the "Medical Ex- aminer," Philadelphia, in 1844 or 1845. Other papers were on the " Art of Observ- ing in Medicine; "(published in the "St. Louis Medical Journal.") "Medical Or- ganization and Reform;" "On the Path- ology of Inflammation," published in the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine."

Dr. Bullitt held chairs in live medical schools and in all showed great aptitude for teaching.

Dr. Bullitt was co-editor of the "St. Louis Medical Record," the "Transyl- vania Journal of Medicine" and " Louis- ville Medical Record." His great afflic- tion, deafness, was all that prevented him from taking the formost position

among medical practitioners, teachers and writers. This misfortune he bore with singular equanimity and fortitude.

On May 26, 1841, Dr. Bullitt was mar- ried to Miss Julia Anderson (who died January 16, 1S53) and had seven children; only two lived to their majority.

On September 14, 1854, he was married to Mrs. Sarah Crow Paradise (who died December 3, 1901) and had six children, one son and five daughters.

The cause of Dr. Bullitt's death was Bright's disease. During his long and severe illness he was always cheerful and escaped some of the most dreadful sufferings which attend this disease. He had led a long and useful life, and often recalled many beautiful reminis- cences of his boyhood. A short time before his death, on February 5, 1880, he read, with great joy and pleasing anticipation Lord Lytton's beautiful poem, "There is no Death" greatly enjoying its fine gracefulness.

J. M. B.

Bullock, William Gaston (1S15-18S5).

William Gaston Bullock was born at Savannah on August 3, 1815 and died there on June 23, 1885. He was the great grandson of Archibald Bullock, first governor of Georgia and son of John Irvine and Charlotte Glen Bullock.

He was equally well known in his state as a surgeon, physician and oculist. He graduated at Vale and M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1838, afterwards studying in Paris and event u- ally settling in Savannah. He was one of the first in South Georgia to do a successful ovariotomy and other major operations, and for a long time stood alone as an ophthalmologist. Ash- hurst in his "Surgery" mentions Bullock's splint for fracture of the lower maxilla. He had the reputation of being a fine diagnostician and after the yellow-fever epidemic of 1854 in Beaufort was pre- sented by the citizens there with two large silver pitchers.

Uways active in advancing his own science, Bullock helped to found the