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twenty minutes, although he was op- posed to the principle of operating against time, and never allowed himself to be thrown off his guard.

According to Gross, he was the first in Kentucky to ligate the subclavian artery. This he performed in 1S25 for the cure of an axillary aneurysm which was described as "larger than a quart pitcher." The patient left for his home on the twenty- first day completely cured. In 1S41 he successfully ligated the common carotid artery for an intracranial aneurysm attended with protrusion of the eye, pulsation noise in the head, and wide separation of the cranial bone on the right side together with the loss of sight and hearing on the same side. This was prior to the era of anesthetics. The stress he laid upon the use of boiled or boiling water in surgery at that time is worthy of comment.

He was not inclined to write, and very likely his contributions to literature were secured largely through his kinsman, Dr. Charles Wilkins Short who, with Dr. John Esten Cooke, established the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine and the Associate Sciences."

His most notable and perhaps all his contributions are: "Observations on In- juries of the Head;" "Observations on Hydrocele;" "On the Use of the Band- age in Gun-shot Wounds and Fractures." These were in the first volume of the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine." 1828.

In a later number of the same journal appeared his article upon "Calculous Diseases," reports of his operation for stone, and a paper on "Fractures." His article on the treatment of "Aneu- rysm" was published in July, 1849; "On the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds," December, 1S49; "On the Treatment of Fractures by the Roller Bandage," in 1850, all of which appeared in the "Transylvania Journal of Medicine." Also an article on "Treatment of Asiatic Cholera."

He married at Lexington June 10, 1821, Anna Maria Short, daughter of

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Major Peyton Short, and had three children, William Ambrose, Anna Maria, and Charles Wilkins. The latter studied medicine but did not practice.

During the last years of his life, his health was greatly impaired owing to an infection he received during an operation. He died at his suburban house, "Fair- lawn," near Lexington, in the eighty- fifth year of his age, from apoplexy, after an illness of two hours.

There are a number of portraits of Dr. Dudley by different artists in the possession of his family, but the best is the one by Jouett, owned by Mrs. Robert Peter. A. S.

A Memoir of the Life and Writings of Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, by L P. Yandell. American Practitioner, 1870. Filaon Club Pub., No. 20. History of Kentucky. Collins, vol. ii. Recollections of Dr. Benjamin W Dudley, by Bedford Brown. Southern Surgical and Gynecological Transactions, vol. 1893 v. Sketch of Benjamin Winslow Dudley, by Benjamin William Dudley.

Dudley, Ethelbert Ludlow (1818-1862).

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley, anatomist and surgeon, was born February 25, 1818. He was the son of Col. Ambrose and Martha Catherine Ludlow Dudley, the former distinguished in the War of 1812.

Dudley first selected law as his pro- fession at Harvard, but soon discovered his preference for a medical career; his father, however, required him to com- plete his law course, which he did, ob- taining his degree. He then began to study medicine at Transylvania Universi- ty, graduating in 1842. He continued, however, his studies in the school during the two following sessions under the tutelage of his uncle, Benjamin \V. Dudley, who was for so many years the professor of anatomy and surgery, and for whom he acted as prosector during this period.

Before the next session he was made demonstrator of anatomy at this University, and in 1847 was promoted