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Dr. Flint died of apoplexy in March, 1SS6, when seventy-four years old. He married, in 1835, a daughter of Mr. N. W. Skillings of Boston.

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Flint, Joshua B. (1S01-1S63).

This surgeon was born at Cohasset, Massachusetts on October 13, 1801, and went to Harvard College, graduat- ing M. D. there in 1825.

At the instance of Dr. Charles Cald- well he was invited to Louisville in 1837, as teacher of surgery in the Louis- ville Medical Institute, later known as the University of Louisville. At the close of his third term he retired but was reinstated in the same chair after the lapse of a few years.

In the winter and spring of 1847 he administered ether for the first time in Kentucky and perhaps in the west. It was for an amputation of the lower limb, the ether being then called "leth- eon" and-administered by the aid of a complicated apparatus. About this same time Samuel D. Gross adminis- tered chloroform for the first time in Kentucky.

From 1852 to 1854 he was professor of surgery and dean of the Kentucky School of Medicine, also co-editor of the " Medical Magazine," Boston.

His fine scholarship, literary and pro- fessional, made itself evident to all appreciative observers. He was not ostentatious in this regard. His sound judgment as a practitioner of surgery and his rare dexterity and coolness as an operator were readily recognized. In the field of operative surgery he was distinguished beyond all other men of his time for his conservatism. In teaching, his style was quiet, eminently and purely didactic. His lectures de-

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rived their ornament from correct rhet- oric and classical illustrations. As a practitioner he stood coldly upon his demeanor as a gentleman and his real merits as a practitioner.

He died at Louisville March 19, 1863.

His writings included:

Sketches of military surgery: An introductory discourse delivered to the Kentucky School of Medicine. Louis- ville, 1852.

A discourse delivered to the class of the Kentucky School of Medicine, in- troductory to a course on surgery. Louisville, 1852.

A lecture, introductory to the course of surgical instruction in the Kentucky School of Medicine, 1854.

A discourse introductory to a course of clinical surgery. Louisville, 1856. A. S.

(Lewis Rogers) Presidential Address, Trans. Ky. State Med. Soe., 1873.

Folsom, Charles Follen (1842-1907).

Charles Follen Folsom was the son of Nathaniel Smith Folsom, a clergy- man, and was born in Haverhill, Mass- achusetts, April 3, 1842.

His life was particularly rich in ex- perience. After graduation from col- lege in June, 1862, he went to South Carolina, where he spent three years in raising cotton and serving on various Federal commissions to supervise plan- tations and care for the "freedmen and abandoned lands." In his work he was brought closely in contact with the late Gen. Rufus Saxton. Having contracted malarial fever in this ardu- ous service, Dr. Folsom took, in Octo- ber, 1S65, a sailing voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco and returned as a sailor before the mast. He then studied medicine at the Harvard Med- ical School under Dr. Jeffries Wyman, and received his medical degree in 1870.

Now followed a professional career of thirty-seven years in which Folsom rendered invaluable service as a physi- cian at the McLean Insane Hospital,