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 CULLEN

CUNNINGHAM

In 1899 he published "Luke, the Beloved Physician," a work which showed much research into the life and character of the Apostle. During his active life he wrote and published more than 4,000 pages of editorials.

On May 3, 1865, Dr. Culbertson mar- ried Virginia B. Clark, of Cincinnati, but on July 11, 1SG6, she died suddenly. April 10, 1873, he married Sarah Pogue, of Cincinnati and had three children: Henry Coe, James Clark and Margaret Elizabeth. Mrs. Culbertson died Sep- tember 2, 1884, but June 18, 188S, Dr. Culbertson married Sophia W. Brown, who survived him. He died June 4, 1908 of arteriosclerosis. A. G. D.

There is a portrait in the Surg. -gen's. Lib.

Wash., D. C.

Daniel Drake and his Followers. Jeuttner,

Cinn.

Cullen, John Syng Dorsey (1832-1893).

John Syng Dorsey Cullen, surgeon, was the son of Dr. John Cullen, a Dublin man and one of the founders of the Medical College of Virginia.

He was born in Richmond, and edu- cated in the best schools in Virginia and New York and at the University of Vir- ginia, graduating in medicine, 1853. After this he spent some time in a hospital in Philadelphia, and then continued his studies abroad. Upon his return home he settled in Richmond and prac- tised with Dr. Charles Bell Gibson.

When the war began in 1861 he be- came surgeon to the first Virginia infan- try, and soon afterwards was appointed medical director of the first or Longstreet's corps. During the time of the battles around Richmond (June, 1862), he was assigned by Gen. Robert E. Lee the po- sition of acting director of the army of northern Virginia.

Soon after the close of the war he was elected professor of diseases of women and children in the Medical College of Virginia, and when Dr. Hunter McGuire retired in 1885, was chosen his successor in the chair of surgery, and was also made dean of the faculty, both of which positions he filled until death.

He was a member of the Southern Sur- gical and Gynecological Association; char- ter member of the Medical Society of Vir- ginia, and at one time president of the Richmond Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Cullen was a man of handsome and attractive personage, a skillful physician and surgeon and an excellent teacher, and had the full confidence and esteem of his patrons.

He married Jenny, daughter of John Maben, Esq., of Richmond.

After a protracted illness from chronic nephritis, he died in Richmond on March 22, 1893.

His contributions to medical literature were numerous and valuable. The follow- ing are the titles of some of them:

"Three Cases of Chopart's Operation Modified." (" Virginia Clinical Record," vol. i.)

"Traumatic Tetanus." (Ibid., vol. i.)

"Resection of the Os Calcis and Ex- perimental Treatment of Necrosed Bone with Sulphuric Acid." (Ibid., vol. i.)

"Hepatic Abscess." (Ibid., vol. ii.)

" An Excision of the Os Calcis," (Ibid ., vol. ii.)

"Disease of Bone." (" Virginia Med- ical Monthly," vol. i.)

There is a photograph in the family. R. M. S.

Trans. Med. Soc. of Va., 1893. Dr. J. N. Upshur's Medical Rem of Richmond.

Cunningham, Francis Deane (1 836-1 S85). Francis Deane Cunningham, surgeon and ophthalmologist, the son of Dr. John Cunningham, of Goochland County, Vir- ginia, was born in that county in 1836, and received his collegiate education at the University of Virginia and graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1857 and from the University of New York in 1859. For a time he was house surgeon in the Brooklyn City II.,. |nl:il, and. i" nt sonic I into in IS.V.I-til) studying in London and Paris, giving special attention to ophthalmic surgery. Upon his return home he settled in Rich- mond, Virginia.