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DUNSTER

Dunn, Thomas D. (1854-1898).

Of Scotch ancestry, his great grand- father, Philip Dunn, having come over from Scotland and settled in New Jersey, Thomas Dunn was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, on January 30, 1854, the oldest son of the Rev. Thomas H. and Diantha Dunn. He began to study medicine with Dr. Jacob Price, West Chester, and graduated from the medical side of the University of Pennsyl- vania, 18S1, with a gold medal for anatom- ical work, and began practice the fol- lowing year in West Chester.

It was largely owing to his exertions that the Chester County Hospital was built, and the work entailed in gaining interest and funds any doctor will appreciate, and the long-titled Thomas D. Dunn Bacteriological Laboratory but inadequately expresses the equally long hours of affectionate thought given towards its establishment by the founder.

In his capacity of head physician to the Chester County Hospital and fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia he rendered good public service, and when he died from the re- sults of a carriage accident May 6, 1898, he left a record of fifteen years' good work. His wife, Kate C. Dunn, whom he married in 1883, with one daughter, Rachel, survived him.

Among some fourteen articles, a list of which is given in the "Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, ' ' vol. xx, 189S, is one on "Two Cases of Glossy Skin," 1888, and "A Case of Leukemia with Rare Lymphoid Growths of Orbit and Parotid Gland," 1894.

Abstracted from Memorial notice by Dr. G' E. de Schweinitz. Trans, of the Coll. of Phys., vol. xx, 1898.

Dunster, Edward Swift (1834-1888).

Edward Swift Dunster, obstetrician and gynecologist, was horn in Springvale, Maine September 2, 1834, a direct descendant of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. Soon after his birth his family removed to Providence, Rhode Island, where he

fitted for college in the public schools and in 1856 received the A. B. from Harvard and in 1859 his A. M. While teaching in Newburg, New York, in 1856, he began medical studies and in 1856-57 attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical School and received his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Xew York City, in 1859. During 1859 he served as interne at St. Luke's Hospital, Xew York, and began medical practice in the same city in 1860. In June, 1861, he entered the army as assistant surgeon and served in West Virginia and in the Penisular Cam- paign under Gen. McCIellan, in charge of various hospitals. In February, 1866, Dr. Dunster began to practise again in Xew York City, making a specialty of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. He was editor of the "Xew York Medical Journal," 1866-72; resident physician-in-charge of Randall's Island Hospitals, 1869-73; professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, University of Vermont, 186S- 71; and the same chair at Long Island Hospital Medical College, Brooklyn, Xew York, 1869-75; Dartmouth Medical Col- lege, 1871-1888; University of Michigan, 1S73-88. Dr. Dunster was a member of the Xew York County Medical Society and the Michigan State Medical Society.

On Xovember 4, 1863, Dunster mar- ried Rebecca Morgan Sprole, daughter of Dr. Sprole, of Xewburg, Xew York, a celebrated Presbyterian preacher of his day, and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 3, 1888, from septicemia.

His papers included:

"Irregular Contraction of the Uterus." ("Transactions American Medical As- sociation," vol. xxix.).

"Ovariotomy." (Vol. xxix, "Trans- actions American Medical Association.")

"Prophylaxis of Puerperal Convul- sions." (Reprint, "Toledo Medical Jour- nal." 1S78.)

"An Unusually Large Mole; Error in Diagnosis." ("Michigan Medical News," Detroit, 1879.)

"The History of Anesthesia." (Re-