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NAME TRIPLETT 1161 TROWBRIDGE Potomac and organized the medical service in that department. After the battles of the Pe- ninsula, he was appointed to duty in Michigan and soon brevetted colonel for meritorious service ; shortly before his death he was pro- moted to brevet brigadier-general, and was chief medical officer of the department of Ohio, and lived with his family in Detroit. In 1849 he was president of the Michigan Medical Society. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1866, from epithelioma, leaving a widow and one daughter. Among his writings are the following : "Gun- shot Wounds of the Stomach" (Peninsular Medical Journal, vol. iv.) ; "Tripler and Black- man; Handbook for the Military Surgeon," 1861 ; "Report on Rank of Medical Depart- ment of ihe Army" I "Transactions, American Medical Association," vol. xvi.) ; Manual of the Medical Officers of the Army of the United States," Part I. ; Recruiting and Inspection of Recruits" (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858). An epit- ome of Tripler's "Manual for the E.xamina- tion of Recruits" was prepared by Major Charles R. Greenleaf (q. v.), Washington, Government Printing Office, in 1884. Leartus Connor. Trans. Amer. Med. 'Assoc, Philadelphia, vol. .xviii. Detroit Review of Med. and Phar., vol. i. Med. Dept. U. S. Army, H. E. Brown, Washing- ton, 1873. Triplelt, William Harrison (1836-1890). William Harrison Triplelt was born Septem- ber S. 18.%, at Mount Jackson, Virginia, and took his M. D., 1859, from Jefferson Medical College. He was acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A. On the paternal side he was descended from an old Virginia family of English extraction, represented in the War of the Revolution by Colonel Triplett of Middleburg, Virginia, and on the maternal side was the grandson of Dr. J. Irwin, a refugee from the Irish re- bellion of 1788. After graduating in medicine Dr. Triplett settled lirst at Harrisonburg, Vir- ginia, staying one year, then at Woodstock, Virginia, from which he removed to Wash- ington, February 3, 1873. His specialty was surgery. He was a member of the Medical Society and Medical Association of the Dis- trict of Columbia. In the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal he discussed the "Improper Treatment of Wounds in the United States Hospitals," "Transposition of Thoracic and Abdominal Viscera, with Hydro-encephalocele, in an Infant Living Thirty Days," and "Glan- ders in the Human Subject"; while to the Richmond and Louisville Medical Jonrn-al he contributed papers on "Hodgkin's Disease," on "Syphilitic Arteritis, with Occlusion of Both Subclavian Arteries," and on "Three Forms of Bright's Disease." He also wrote "The Laws and Mechanics of Circulation," 1885. He was professor of anatomy in the George- own Medical School, 1875. He married, on June 1, 1867, Kathleen McKoy, and died at Woodstock, Virginia, on March 27, 1890. Daniel Smith Lamu. Phys. and Surgs. of the U. S. VV. B. Atkinson, 1S7S. Min. of Med. Soc, D. C, April, 1890. Trowbridge, Amasa (1779-1860). Amasa Trowbridge of Watertown, New York, a surgeon of the War of 1812, was born at Pomfret, Connecticut, May 17, 1779. Brought up on his parents' farm, he attended the country school and an academy, beginning the study of medicine with Dr. Avery Downer of Preston City, Connecticut, at the age of seventeen and receiving a license from the state medical society three years later. Re- turning to his native town, Dr. Trowbridge spent a year under Dr. Thomas Hubbard (q. v.), the chief surgeon of the place. Settling in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, he practised for a time and was married, then moving to Trenton, New York, he followed his profession for two years in company with Dr. Luther Guiteau, and finally settled permanently in Watertown in 1809. Here he prospered, wrote a series of political essays for a paper in Utica, having for its object the support of the administration in its controversy with Great Britain. On the breaking out of war Dr. Trowbridge was as- signed as surgeon to General Jacob Brown's command by the Governor of the State. Dur- ing the entire war he saw service on the frontier; in the winter of 1812-13 his head- quarters were at Sacket's Harbor; in August, 1813, he received an appointment as surgeon in the LInited States Army, and was attached to Colonel Ripley's Twenty-first Regiment of In- fantry. At the battles of Chippewa and Lun- dy's Lane he had a busy time attending to the wounded, and was commended by General Ripley in his report of the operations. At the close of the war, on his return to private practice, Dr. Trowbridge was appointed an assistant justice on the bench of the county court; in 1818 he became a judge, and the fol- lowing year sheriff, practising medicine all the while. The winter of 1822 was spent in Phila- delphia studying medicine, incidentally forming a lasting friendship with Dr. Parrish (q. v.). In 1824 he was appointed professor of surgery and medical jurisprudence in Willoughby Uni-