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 DUDLEY

DUNGLISON

to the chair of general and pathological anatomy.

In 1849 he originated and continued to edit for three years the "Transylvania Medical Journal," a new series of the old "Transylvania Journal of Medicine," and in 1859 accepted a call to the chair of descriptive anatomy and histology in the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, which was just then being or- ganized and to which many of the Tran- sylvania professors were going for the winter session. By his talents and indefatigable energy he contributed very greatly to the success of this school.

In the second year of the Kentucky School of Medicine he was promoted to the chair of surgical anatomy and operative surgery and conducted the surgical clinic at the Marine Hospital for the classes in both of the Louisville schools. In 1853 Dudley, with the other Transylvania professors, resigned and re- turned to Lexington where he continued his duties in the renewed winter ses- sions of the latter school.

Among the most striking character- istics of Dudley was his wonderful energy, his enthusiasm, and these qualities, combined with his unusual mental gifts and his entire devotion to his pro- fession, made his short career a most notable one.

At the outbreak of Civil War, led by his loyalty to the Union he was actively instrumental in the organization of a battalion of "home guards" of which he was commandant. He later obtain- ed authority to organize a regiment, the Twenty-first Kentucky; of this regiment he was made colonel and took with him as adjutant his only son, a boy less than eighteen years of age. He had taken his regiment to the southern part of the state and while physician and surgeon to his men as well as com- manding officer, he fell a victim to typhoid fever in February, 1862, at Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky.

Dr. Dudley married Mary Dewees Scott, a daughter of Matthew T. Scott, president of the Northern Bank of Ken-

tucky, by whom he had two children, a son, Scott, and a daughter, Louise. J. W. S.

The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University (Dr. Robert Peter).

Dugas, Louis Alexander (1S06-1S84).

Louis Alexander Dugas was born in Washington, Georgia, in 1806, of French West Indian parentage. After receiving his early education from a private tutor he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. John Dent, of Augusta, then studied at the Univer- sity of Maryland, from which he gradu- ated in 1827. He passed four years in Europe, then settled down to practice in Augusta. In 1832 he was one of the founders of the Medical College of Georgia, and filled the chair of surgery, and retained this position until the close of his life. He several times served as president of the Medical Association of Georgia, also became editor of the " Southern Medical and Surgical Journal " in 1851, and edited it for seven years. During the war he was a volunteer sur- geon in many of the military hospitals. He died at his home in Augusta when seventy-eight years old. His first wife (1833) was Mary C. Barnes and his second (1840) Louisa V. Harriss.

He gave much attention to diseases of the eye, and in 1S40 did an operation in certain conditions of corneal staphy- loma which met with general favor. This operation was the abscission of the cornea. In the "Southern Medical and Surgical Journal" for 1837 he pub- lished a paper on "Purulent Oph- thalmia."

Med. News, Phila., 1884.

Dunglison, Robley (1798-1869).

It happened that when old Thomas Jef- ferson was organizing the University of Virginia in 1S24 he, failing to find a man for the chair of anatomy, physiology, materia medica and pharmacy, wrote to London to a learned young man only twenty-six but one who had already written a "Treatise on Children's Dis-