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NAME SCHUPPERT 1025 SCOTT who had received an ointment in the even- ing, was considerably improved. The Indians were now thoroughly convinced, and the chief displayed the medal his grandfather had re- ceived from George the III ; the squaws brought corn for their horses and pounded maize and fish for the travellers. Their jour- ney was then continued and they reached their destination without further molestation. Jasper Halpenny. Parliamentary Companion. 1890. The making of the Canadian West, 1898. Three paintings are in possession of Lady Schultz, two by Forbes and one by Hatch, and a por- trait hangs in Government house, Winnipeg. Schuppert, Moritz (1817-1887) Moritz Schuppert, surgeon, was born in Marburg, Germany, in 1817, where he received a good education, studied medicine, married, and then came to New Orleans. Poor and unfriended but endowed with great native ability and a knowledge of the science of medicine far in advance of that possessed by most American physicians of that day, these advantages soon made themselves felt. In 1853 he distinguished himself in the yellow- fever epidemic and became visiting surgeon to the Charity Hospital, where for years he continued to serve with enthusiasm and exact- ness. In 1854 he was city physician ; in 1859 he established, in conjunction with Dr. Chop- pin (q. v.), an orthopedic institute. He rapidly rose to be one of the most prominent surgeons and citizens of the city. He performed many surgical operations, was skilful in the treat- ment of deformities, a vigorous writer, a thinker and an inspirer of thought in his associates. His biographer compares him to the Luther of his native home, stern, sim- ple, outspoken, rugged. A lover of candor, a hater of meanness, of rough exterior and tender heart, a loyal friend, a strong man. He died May 2, 1887. His writings were largely contributions to the New Orleans Medi- cal and Surgical Journal, and are, notably : "Facial Neuralgia" ; "Vesico- Vagina! Fistula" ; "Biniodide of Mercury in Syphilis"; "Resusci- tation from Death by Chloroform"; "Excision of Entire Scapula with Preservation of a Use- ful Arm" (1870) ; "Pneumatometry : Results of Lister's Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds in German Hospitals and Remarks on the Theory of Septic Infection" (187S-6) ; "Lister's Anti- septic Treatment of Wounds" (1878-9). He was the first to introduce Lister's prac- tice into the South and is rightly regarded as the father of antiseptic surgery in Louisiana. Jane Grey Rogers. New Orl. Med. & Surg. Jour., 1888, vol. xvi, 757. Scott, Upton (1722-1814) A founder and first president of the Med- ical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, ha was the son of Francis Scott, of Temple- patrick, near Antrim, Ireland, where he was born in the year 1722. After a literary train- ing, probably at the University of Dublin, he began to study medicine and early in 1747 purchased for f60 a surgeon-mate's position in one of the oldest of the British regiments, that of Lord George Sackville, and was sta- tioned in Scotland. This was the regiment commanded by Wolfe. He accompanied his command in the ensuing campaign in Flanders. During the winter the regiment came down into the lowlands and Dr. Scott availed him- self of the opportunity to attend lectures at Edinburgh and Glasgow, taking his M. D. from the latter, April 10, 1753, and having secured an engagement with Mr. Horatio Sharpe, the new governor of Maryland, he disposed of his commission and sailed for Annapolis the ensuing summer. Favored by the patronage of Gov. Sharpe, he became the court physician of the Mary- land capital, and secured a large practice. He also held the sheriffship of Anne Arundel County in 1759 and secretaryship of the Coun- cil or Upper House of Assembly. On his return to Maryland, after the war, he seems to have recovered his property and to have enjoyed the confidence of the community, as though no differences had ever existed. In 1760 Dr. Scott built a handsome brick house. Here, in the exercise of a generous hospitality, he passed a green old age and died on the twenty-third of February, 1814, aged ninety-one. Various relics of him have been preserved besides his letters. Among these are his diploma, his medicine chest, a miniature painted on ivory, a pair of pistols presented to him by Col. Wolfe, a portrait of. Dr. Cullen, the gift of that great physician, and a letter from him, in which he speaks of Scott as one among his first pupils, and a "List of Flowers that Grow in the Vicinity of the Cape of Good Hope," which was handed in the form of an order to his nephew, Lieut. D. Murray, of the United States Navy, at Annapolis in 1807. Dr. Scott wanted to bring to Maryland for planting purposes near Annapolis all seeds and bulbs of Cape of Good Hope plants that could possibly be obtained, and as Lieut. Murray attended to this order for him it is probably a fair assump- tion that many of the flowers of Colonial Maryland sprang from this origin.