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ing surgeon to the Carney Hospital in 1899 and senior surgeon of the Boston City Hospital in 1S97. Burrell was a sur- geon of high grade and one of the first successfully to ligate the innominate ar- tery and the first successfully to reim- plant an entire trephine button.

His society membership included the American Surgical Association, of which he was secretary for several years; the American Society of Clinical Surgery; American Orthopedic Association; of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and in 190S-9 he was president of the Ameri- can Medical Association. He wrote a good deal for medical journals and also wrote "Case Teaching in Surgery" with Dr. J. B. Blake.

He married Lillie, daughter of Dr. Wil- liam H. Thorndike and, when she died in 1897, Carolina W. Cayford in 1899; who with two sons, survived him.

During the last year Dr. Burrell had been an invalid on account of chronic dis- ease of the kidney with cardiac compli- cations, and had been unable to teach or to practice. He died at his home in Boston, April 27, from valvular heart dis- ease, associated with disease of the kid- ney, aged fifty-four.

Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, Chicago, May 7, 1910, in which there is a portrait. Boston Transcript, April 27, 1910.

Burroughs, Richard Berrien (1833-1901). One of Florida's prominent physicians and surgeons, he was born in the city of Savannah, Georgia, January 19, 1833. His middle name was derived from his maternal grandfather, John MacPherson Berrien, who was attorney-general of An- drew Jackson's cabinet. Dr. Burroughs graduated at the University of Georgia in 1853 and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1856, taking up practice afterwards at Tal- lahassee, Florida, and in Camden County, Georgia, prior to the Civil War. At the beginning of the struggle he entered the Confederate Army as a surgeon, and was assigned to duty with the sixty-third Georgia Regiment at Thunderbolt, near

Savannah. Preferring a more active service he was transferred, in 1862, to the fourth Georgia Cavalry, Col. Duncan L. Clinch, and with that noted command shared in the Atlanta campaign. A large portion of the war period was spent by Dr. Burroughs as surgeon with the gallant J. J. Dickison's command in Florida, and deserved tribute is paid to him in the history of "Dickison and his Men." In other fields he was distinguished. At the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, he rode through a galling fire to where the gallant Captain Wylly had fallen, shot through the neck, placed the wounded man on his horse and on foot succeeded in conveying him to a place of safety. At the battle of Olustee, he gave his horse to Col. Smith, whose own had been killed, and continued during the rest of the fight to discharge the functions of his office un- mounted. He settled in Jacksonville in 1880 and for many years was a leading physician in that city. He was appoint- ed by Gov. Drew, in 1S85, on the staff of Gen. Capers W. Bird as Chief Surgeon with the rank of major, and in 1S92 was appointed surgeon-general by Gen. J. J. Dickison of the Florida Confederate Veterans.

Dr. Burroughs married, first, Ella J. Burroughs, who died on August 13, 1868, then to Florida Lewis, who died April 14, 1895. At his death he left six children. Dr. Burroughs died September 11, 1901, at the home of his son, Joseph Hallett Burroughs, in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Burton, Elijah (1794-1854).

Elijah Burton was a prominent pioneer physician of Collamer, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and the stalwart progenitor of a line of physicians who, for nearly a century, have dominated the practice of the locality in which he settled. Born in Manchester, Bennington County, Ver- mont, he received the ordinary education of the common schools of his day. En- dowed by nature with a taste for military affairs and filled with the traditional patriotism of the "Green Mountain