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FROTHINGHAM medicine with Dr. W. W. Greene, professor of surgery in the medical department of Bowdoin College, Maine, and in 1864 received his M. D. from the medical department of Michigan University. After three years' practice at North Becket, Massachusetts, Dr. Frothingham became demonstrator of anatomy and prosector of surgery at Michigan University, but spent some time at the eye hospitals of New York and cultivated eye and ear work at Ann Arbor. As a result, these cases became inconveniently numerous for the surgical clinic and a new chair was formed in 1870 for him as professor of ophthalmology and otology, and to meet the needs of a rapidly changing faculty, he for brief periods filled other chairs too. Thus in 1875 he was professor of practical anatomy; in 1876 professor of materia medica and therapeutics. While living in Massachusetts Dr. Frothingham was a member of the Massachusetts State Medical Society and the Berkshire County Medical Society. In 1874 he was president of the Washtenaw County Medical Society; in 1889 president of Michigan State Medical Society. Until 1889 he was ophthalmologist and aural surgeon to the University Hospital at Ann Arbor; from 1889 consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Children's Free Hospital and Harper Hospital, Detroit, and during 1S69-71 an editor of the " Michigan University Medical Journal." His activity both physical and mental was ceaseless; whatever he undertook had all his power, all his time.

In 1860 he married Lucy E. Barbour, and had four children. Dr. George E. Frothingham died April 24, 1900, at his home in Detroit from arteriosclis.

The eldest son, George E., Jr., took up his father's specialty and became ophthalmic surgeon to Harper Hospital and clinical professor of ophthalmology in Detroit College of Medicine.

Papers:

"A Case of Epilepsy Apparently Cured by Correction of Hypempia and Relief of Ciliary Spasm." ("Journal American Medical Association," vol. ix.)

"Errors of Refraction and Accommodation as Causes of Nervous Affections." ("The Physician and Surgeon," vol. xiii.)

"The More Dangerous Forms of Conjunctivitis." ("Michigan University Medical Journal," vol. ii.)

"Sympathetic Ophthalmia." ("Transactions Michigan State Medical Society," 1876.)

"An Improved Method of Extracting Senile Cataract." ("Transactions Michigan State Medical Society," 1877.)

"Indications for the Artificial Perforation of the Mastoid Process and Best Technic." ("Transactions Ninth International Medical Congress," vol. iii.)

"Some Observations Concerning the Extraction of Cataract without Iridectomy and the Use of Bandage in After-treatment." ("Transactions American Medical Association," 1888.)

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History of University Mich., Ann Arbor. 1906.

Cyclopedia of Mich., West. Publishing Co., Detroit, 1900.

Knappa Archives of Ophthalmology, vol.

Fuller, Samuel (1580-1633).

Samuel Fuller, the first practising physician to visit New England, was born in England and baptized in Redenhall Parish Church, Norfolk County, January 20, 15S0. He was the son of a butcher, Robert Fuller, but of his education we know nothing. He is heard from in Leyden where he was a deacon of the church and became the friend of William Bradford, with whom he migrated to America with the Pilgrims in 1620. He was thrown into Contact with many learned men at Leyden, among them William Brewster. Before coming to America he was thrice married, his last wife, who survived him, being Bridget Lee, of Leyden. In the list of the passengers sailing on the "Mayflower," Samuel Fuller is put down as physician, also in an account of the