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 FROST

FROTHINGHAM

superintendent of the Military Hospital at Wheeling during the Civil War, with the rank of assistant surgeon.

His work during fifty-five years of practice covered the whole field of sur- gery. For ten years before Morton's discoveries regarding anesthesia Dr. Frissell did capital operations on pa- tients who heroically suffered or were nauseated and relaxed by antimony and wine of tobacco, or stupefied by whiskey. He practised during the pe- riods when bleeding was a universal remedy and when it had been entirely abandoned. He saw the rise and fall of many remedies, extolled as specifics, whose very names are now forgotten. He was always the thoughtful, careful, conservative surgeon, and the wise, cautious and observing practitioner.

Dr. Frissell married, in 1S50, Eliza- beth Ann Thompson, daughter of Col. John Thompson, of Moundsville, Vir- ginia. They had three sons: John Thomp- son, who died at twenty-six of typhoid fever; Charles M., who became a Wheel- ing practitioner, and a third son, Walker I.

Dr. Frissell was one of the charter members and the first president of the West Virginia State Medical Society in 1867.

He died at his home in Wheeling, West Virginia, at the advanced age of eighty-four. J. L. D.

Prominent Men of West Virginia, Wheel- ing. 1890.

Tr. M. Soe. West Virginia, Wheeling, 1894 (J. L. Dickey).

Frost, Henry Rutledge (1790-1867).

Born at Charleston, South Carolina, October 6, 1795, the boy had as father a clergyman, one Thomas Frost, M. A., graduate of Caius College, Cambridge, England, who emigrated to America in 1775, and for mother a woman of Huguenot ancestry descended from the Rev. Francis Le Jau, who fled to South Carolina after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

He was educated at the Academy of Dr. Moses Waddell, at Wilmington, South Carolina, from which he gradu-

ated with honors, and then began to study medicine under Dr. Philip G. Prioleau, and graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1816. For the following two years he was resident physician in the Philadelphia Alms House.

From 1824 to 1832 he occupied the chair of materia medica in the Medical College of South Carolina and filled the same position in the Medical Col- lege of the State of South Carolina from 1832 to 1866. He was dean of the faculty from 1843 to 1846 and again from 1849 to 1861.

In 1818 he began to practise at Charleston and was for several years physician to Shirras Dispensary. In 1822, in association with Drs. Dickson and Ramsay, he delivered private lec- tures in the Charleston Alms House to such students as were resident in the city, and in 1824 was actively in- terested in the organization of the Med- ical College of South Carolina, in whose faculty he was elected to fill the chair of materia medica. During the many years when he was dean of the faculty he discharged the duties of his office with untiring energy. He died on April 7, 1866 from diarrhea.

His skill and his warm tenderness won for him an enviable place in the hearts of the community in which he labored.

He married Mary Deas, by whom he had six children.

His most important publication was a volume entitled " Outlines of a Course of Lectures on the Materia Medica," published at Charleston, South Caro- lina, 1851. R. W., Jr.

Frothingham, George Edward (1836-

1900).

George Edward Frothingham, special- ist in ophthalmology and otology, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 23, 1836, of English ancestry and his general education was obtained in the public schools and Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. After teach- ing for a time, he began to study