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BODENHAMER and organizing the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. He may truly be considered as one of the founders of scientific medicine and surgery in the middle west.

In person, we learn, he was slender, of medieummedium [sic] height, with striking features, high forehead, dark gray eyes, large nose and prominent chin. He was generally dressed in black broadcloth. He married, in 1840, Catherine Cameron of Pennsylvania and at his death on May 1, 1870, left $2,000 to establish the Bobbs Dispensary to be managed by the Medical College of the Indiana Faculty. He also founded the Bobbs Library which is under the same direction and contains a most valuable collections of medical works.



Bodenhamer, William (1808–1905)

William Bodenhamer, specialist and author in rectal diseases, was born in East Berlin, Pennsylvania, in the year 1808. He graduated in medicine in the now defunct Worthington Medical College of the Ohio University in 1839. He practised in Paris, and in Louisville, Kentucky, and in New Orleans, and settled in New York in 1859. He wrote "A Practical Treatise on the Aetiology, Pathology and Treatment of the Congenital Malformations of the Rectum and Anus," 368 pp., N. Y. 1860, for the first time gathering into one all the scattered memoranda from every nation, with especial reference to the efforts to give relief by operation. This remarkable treatise is illustrated by 16 lithographic plates, and reports upwards of three hundred cases and will without doubt always remain the foundation stone in the surgery of these distressing abnormalities. Bodenhamer died March 31, 1905, at his home in New Rochelle, N. Y.



Bodine, James Morrison (1831–1915)

James Morrison Bodine, a teacher of anatomy, was born in the village of Fairfield, Kentucky, Oct. 2, 1831, the son of Dr. Alfred Bodine and Fannie Maria Ray Bodine. His paternal ancestors were Huguenots, emigrating to this country in 1625, settling in what is now New Jersey. Later his grandfather came to Kentucky, about the time it was admitted into the Union as a state.

His preliminary education was obtained in the common school of the village where he lived. Later he spent two years at St. Joseph's College at Bardstown, Ky., following which he entered Hanover College, Madison, Ind., but was forced to leave in his senior year on account of ill health. In 1893 Hanover College conferred on him the LL. D.

He began the study of medicine in Louisville under the tutelage of (q.v.), in 1852, and graduated M. D. at the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1854. He practised medicine for a year following his graduation in Austin, Texas, but returned to Kentucky for a visit and was married in Louisville to Mary E. Crowe, the daughter of a prominent merchant and representative citizen. Immediately after his marriage he was called to the demonstratorship of anatomy in his Alma Mater, discharging the duties of this office during 1856–57. In 1857 he moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, with his wife and daughter (his only child), and there rapidly acquired a large practice. He was the first president of the first medical society organized in the State of Kansas and established the first hospital in the State. The conditions brought about by the Civil War through his southern sympathies forced him to leave the state and he returned to Kentucky. For a while he remained with his father's family in Nelson County, but yielding to the wishes of friends returned to Louisville in 1863 and accepted the professorship of anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine. In 1866 he resigned this professorship and accepted a similar one in the University of Louisville. Soon after this he was elected dean of the faculty of the University of Louisville and held this position until all the medical schools in Louisville were united in the University of Louisville, in 1907, at which time he gave place to a younger man, having served as dean over forty-one years. On his resignation as dean, he was immediately elected president of the faculty of the University of Louisville, retaining this place up to the time of his death.

While a popular and busy practitioner of medicine for many years, Dr. Bodine's claim to eminence in his profession rests on his career as a medical educator, for he taught anatomy in medical schools nearly fifty years, being one of the most widely known, popular and beloved teachers of anatomy this country has produced. His interest in the advancement of medical education in this country led him to take a prominent part in the organization of the association of medical colleges. In 1876 he was the prime mover in the organization of the Association of American Medical Colleges and he was urged but