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he also urged the establishment of the Western Asylum for the insane at Mor- ganton. As a surgeon he ranked at the head of his profession and performed with success many of the important cases such as: the Cesarean section, in August, 1874; strangulated inguinal hernia, two cases out of four being cured; lacerated perineum. In 1S69 he successfully per- formed ligation of the right iliac artery for traumatic aneurysm of femoral atery, the first operation of the kind ever per- formed in the state, and considered so important that it was published in pamph- let form by the State Medical Society. In April of the same year he assisted Dr. Washington Atlee of Philadelphia in per- forming, at Raleigh, an operation (ovar- iotomy). The patient being left entirely in Dr. Haywood's charge, recovered and afterwards became the mother of three children. He operated twice suc- cessfully for the removal of submucous fibroid of the uterus. He performed many other notable surgical operations among those important being: aspiration of the pericardium for hydrops pericardii; external esophagotomy for impacted foreign body low down in esophagus; am- putation of thigh in its upper third for gangrene of leg caused by traumatic femoral aneurysm; tracheotomy for for- eign body in bronchus.

In 1850 he married Lucy A. Williams, daughter of Mr. Alfred Williams. He died on January 18, 1894 in the house in which he was born. He was survived by one daughter and six sons. One son, Hubert, became a doctor.

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Hazlett, Robert W. (1828-1899).

Robert W. Hazlett was born in Wash- ington, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1828, his parents being Samuel and Sarah Johns Hazlett. His paternal grandparents, Robert Eazlett from Edinburgh, and Mary Caldwell Hazlett, daughter of Katherine Caldwell (nee' Ren£) a Huguenot came to America in 1785.

He had his college course at Wash- ington, now Washington and Jefferson

College, some years later receiving her A.M.

He early evinced an interest in medicine and showed it by preparation of many specimens for the college lectures on an- atomy and physiology by Dr. James King, a work for which he possessed natural artistic talent.

He began to study medicine in Wheel- ing, Virginia, with his cousin, Dr. R. H. Cummins, receiving his M. D. in 1851 from Jefferson Medical College, and tak- ing a post-graduate course in Philadel- phia, soon after settling in South Wheeling. In 1857 for recuperation he went into the mountains, and, always fond of geology, became interested in searching for coal and oil, and located and supervised the boring of the state's first productive oil well.

In June, 1861 Hazlett again left prac- tice, this time to enter the Union Army as surgeon of the second West Virginia Vol- unteer Infantry. In the autumn of 1862 he was appointed brigade-surgeon of Lathanis Independent Brigade and in 1863 surgeon of the United States Gen- eral Hospital at Grafton.

The war over, Dr. Hazlett resumed practice in Wheeling, was very successful and ranked high among his fellows.

He was president of Ohio County Med- ical Society and president in 1S93 of the State Medical Association. From its origin he was consulting physician to the City Hospital.

Dr. Hazlett married Mary Elizabeth Hobbs, October 7, 1852, and had four sons and one daughter — Howard, Samuel. Edward. Robert, and Katherine.

Dr. Hazlett died at his home in Wheel- ing, West Virginia, on September 2, 1S99, after a year's illness of pernicious anemia.

The following papers, all in the "Trans- actions of the West Virginia State Med- ical Association," arc the only printed productions from his pen:

" I '. i> ■: r . i 1 .1 1 i<-: 1 1 Sketch of 1 >r. 11. II.

Cummins," 1873.

Biographical Sketch of Dr. II. J. W H el," 1874. "Diagnostic Value of the Urine," 1874.