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Hospital until 1837, when lie went to Wilmington, and practised till his death.

He belonged to several historical soci- eties in Delaware, Virginia and Pennsyl- vania and was president of the American Medical Society and wrote on the " His- tory of Medicine and Physicians in Dela- ware, " on which subject he wrote the chapter in Scharf's "History of Delaware."

In 1S60 he was president of the State Medical Society and read many papers specially advocating sanitary reforms. He died March 5, 1892.

Hist, of the State of Delaware. Wilmington Board of Health, Biennial Re- port, 1890-2

Butler, Lucius Castle (1S20-1S88).

Lucius Castle Butler was born in Essex, Vermont, March 17, 1S20 and his preliminary education was obtained in public schools and at Bradford Academy. Afterwards he studied medicine with Dr. George Howe of Jericho and Dr. Leonard Marsh of Burlington, attending lectures at Dartmouth and at the Clin- ical School in Woodstock, graduating thence in 1S43 and thirty years later receiving his honorary M. D. from Dartmouth.

After practising at Clintonvil'e, New York, for seven years, Dr. Butler settled in Essex, where he practised nine years. In 1S59 he moved to Bradford where he lived for a year, thence to Philadel- phia to accept a position on the editorial staff of the "Medical and Surgical Re- porter," but after two years in this position he returned to Essex and prac- tised the remainder of his life.

Dr. Butler was for many years a member and three years president of the Vermont State Medical Society and a member of the American Medical Association. He was a rather prolific writer, not only upon medical but also historic subjects, publishing at various times medical papers read before the Vermont State and other medical socie- ties, and an "Early History of the Town of Essex." Dr. Butler was active in

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town and state affairs and was an allround good citizen. He also pre- pared and tabulated for the secretary of state the vital statistics of Vermont for several years. In this connection it should be stated that he was instru- mental in securing the establishment of the State Board of Health.

He is represented as a most sympa- thetic as well as skillful physician and a man who endeared himself to his clientele. He married in 1845 Hannah D. Page of Essex and had a son and daughter.

C. S. C.

Tr. Vermont Med. Soc, 1888, Montpelier, 1889.

Butler, Samuel Worcester (1S23-1874).

This alienist, was born at Brainard, Georgia, May 1, 1S23. His father. Dr. Elizur Butler, was a medical mis- sionary among the Cherokee Indians. Samuel W. Butler graduated from the department of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1S50, and first prac- tised in Burlington, New Jersey, associat- ing himself with Dr. Joseph Parrish, the latter being editor of the " New Jersey Medical Reporter." Dr. Butler soon be- came its sole editor and proprietor, his natural qualifications for the post being early conceded, and immediately trans- formed it into a monthly.

In spite of a growing practice he de- termined to remove to Philadelphia, in order to prosecute his editorial labors more successfully. The move was made in 185S, and the journal commenced as a weekly under the title "The Medical and Surgical Reporter."

Dr. Butler was appointed in 1859 superintendent physician of the depart- ment for the insane of the Philadelphia Almshouse. This position he held until 1866, but from this date to the close of his life he devoted himself to medical literature, continuing the "Medical and Surgical Reporter," commencing in 1867, the "Half Yearly Compendium, of Med- ical Science and in 1866, the "Physi- cian's Daily Pocket Record," and in 1S72 projecting the "United States