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Obstetric Practice," 14 pp., 8°. Reprint- ed from the " American Journal of Obstet- rics," New York, 1887, xv.

"Chronic Inversion of the Uterus." In Systemic Gynecology" (Mann), 8°, Philadelphia, 1888.

"The Effusion of Chyle and of Chyle- like, Milky, Fatty and Oily Fluids into the Serous Cavities," 23 pp., S°. Preprint- ed from the "American Journal of Med- ical Sciences," Philadelphia, 1SS9, n. s., xcviii.

"The Wrong of Craniotomy upon the Living Fetus," 21 pp., 8°. "American Journal of Obstetrics," New York, 1889, xxii.

" Vulvar or Vaginal Hemorrhage in the Newly Born," 8 pp., 8°. Reprinted from the "American Journal of Obstet- rics," New York, 1890, xxiii, and many other papers and addresses-

G. M. K.

Bush, James Miles (1808-1875).

James Miles Bush was born in Frank- fort, Kentucky, May, 1808 and died in Lexington, February 14, 1875.

His grandparents, Philip and Mary Bush, came from Germany in 1750 and settled in Winchester, Virginia.

James Bush began the study of medi- cine in the office of the celebrated Dr. Alban Goldsmith, but removed in 1830 to Lexington to attend the medical de- partment of Transylvania University. He became the private pupil of Dr. Ben- jamin W. Dudley, and between the two men sprang up a warm and life-long attachment.

In 1833 he received his M. D. from Transylvania University and was at once appointed demonstrator and instructor in anatomy and surgery there, a place filled successfully till 1837, when he was made, in the same institution, adjunct professor of anatomy and surgery under Dr. Dudley. In 1844 he became full pro- fessor of anatomy.

In 1850 the medical department of Transylvania began to give only summer courses, and Dr. Bush, with others, es- tablished in Louisville a winter school,

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the Kentucky School of Medicine, where he filled, for three sessions, the chair of surgical anatomy and operative surgery.

Dr. Bush married, in 1S35, Miss Char- lotte James of Chillieothe, Ohio. Two sons and one daughter were born to them, the eldest son, Benjamin Dudley Bush, inheriting his father's fondness for the study of medicine, gave great promise as a physician and surgeon. His early death was a shock from which his father never recovered. James Miles Bush, while distinguished as a surgeon, performing a number of times successfully the then un- usual operation of lithotomy, was also a general practitioner.

His principal writings that have been preserved are reports of interesting cases. These can be found in vol. x (1837) of the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine."

Two are:

"An Introductory Lecture to the Dis- secting Class of Transylvania University," Lexington, November 9, 1840.

"Observations on the Operations of Lithotomy," illustrated by cases from the practice of Prof. B. W. Dudley.

Three portraits of this physician are in possession of his family; one of these, by his brother, Joseph Bush, a talented pupil of Sully, shows the wonderfully keen eyes for which he was noted.

In his surgical work, he felt deeply the necessity of hospital advantages, and it was at his suggestion St. Joseph's Hos- pital at Lexington was founded, the first hospital in central Kentucky.

Dr. Bush died of diabetes mellitus, and, conscious of his condition, faced the inevitable without confiding to his fam- ily the serious nature of his disease. Two months before his death he said to a brother practitioner, "I have but two months to live."

R. M. C.

Bush, Lewis P. (1812-1892).

Born in Wilmington October 19, 1812, he graduated M. A. from Jefferson Col- lege and in 1835 received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was resident physician at the Blockley