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 GALE

GALLUP

Gale, Benjamin (1715-1790).

The son of John and Mary Gale, he was born in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, and graduated from Yale College in 1733.

His entire professional life was spent in Killingworth (now Clinton, Connec- ticut) where he had studied medicine with Jared Eliot, whose daughter, Hannah, he married.

His townsmen sent him to the General Assembly of Connecticut for thirty-two sessions, and would have continued him in that position, but he declined.

The Society of Arts in London elect- ed him a corresponding member in 1765, due perhaps to his invention of an improved drill plough.

He wrote, and wrote well on a great variety of subjects, one being " Histor- ical Memoirs, Relating to the Practice of Inoculation for the Small-pox in the British American Provinces, par- ticularly in New England." This was printed in the "Philosophical Trans- action," vol. Iv, pp. 193-204, and the- ological studies, particularly in regard to prophecy, occupied much of his time.

Pres. Stiles wrote of him: "He was a man of integrity and upright- ness, and of great skill in the med- ical profession, and a successful prac- titioner."

There is a tradition that he desired to be buried in such a position that when lie should rise from the dead, which he thought would take place in 1804, the first object to meet his eyes would be the house in which he had lived. E. E.

Boston M. and S. Jour., 1840, xxii.

Gallup, Joseph Adams (1769-1849),

On March 30, 1769, Joseph A. Gal- lup, son of William and Lucy Denison

Gallup, was born in Stonington, Connec- ticut.

It is not known under whose tutelage he began the study of medicine, but at the age of twenty-one he was in prac- tice at Bethel. Later, in 1798, he took his degree at the Dartmouth Medical School. In the fall of 1799 he went to Woodstock, where he became a gen- eral practitioner and also engaged ex- tensively in mercantile pursuits. Dr. Gallup early acquired a wide repu- tation as a medical man. He was especially active in assisting in the for- mation of societies, county and state, being a charter member of the Wind- sor County Medical Society and of the Vermont State Society, the latter in- corporated in 1813. Dr. Gallup was elected president of the State Society in 1818 and held the office for eleven years.

He was in 1820 elected professor of theory and practice of medicine and materia medica, also president of the Academy of Medicine, which had been es- tablished in Castleton in 1818. He oc- cupied these positions until 1823. After- wards he was professor for a year at the Medical School in connection with the University of Vermont and he soon after became absorbed in the formation of a medical school in his home town of Woodstock. The Clinical School of Medicine, started there in 1827, was Gallup 's child and was almost wholly due to his self-denying labor. He was its first professor of tho institutes of medicine, of materia medica, of clinical medicine and obstetrics. During the first few years Gallup seems to have been pretty much the whole faculty. He was the fourth in America to per- form ovariotomy. Dissensions arose, however, in the faculty, which n in Gallup's withdrawing in 1S34 from