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NAME BUCKINGHAM 165 BUDD physician to the Boston Dispensary and to the Home of Industry, which gave him clinical advantages improved by keeping careful notes of cases. In 1847, together with a number of physi- cians of about his own age, several of whom became distinguished in later life, he formed the Boylston Medical School. This school, in which he had charge of instruction in obstet- rics and diseases of women and children, was an ambitious one, and established a partly graded course as early as 1850. He was una- ble, however, to get its charter extended to the granting of degrees, and owing to this and to increased difficulty in getting anatomical ma- terial, it was abandoned in 1855. Within a few weeks of this abandonment of instruction Dr. Buckingham resigned his clinical appoint- ments which had now become less valuable to him, and for the next ten years held no ap- pointment of any kind except that he inspect- ed hospitals on the Ohio river for the sanitary commission for a month during the Civil War. On the establishment of the Boston City Hospital (1864) he was made visiting surgeon and there gave a course of clinical lectures on his own account. In the same j'ear, after con- sultation with his colleagues of the hospital, he accepted the appointment of adjunct pro- fessor of theory and practice of medicine in Harvard University, later becoming professor of obstetrics, an appointment he held at the time of his death in 1877. He was also consulting physician to the Boston Lying-in Hospital. His City Hospital appointment was resigned because of the pressure of other work. He was an original member of the Boston Society for Medical Observation, then an ac- tive clinical society, and was also a member of the Obstetrical Society of Boston, and of the American Gynecological Society. He was a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society and an honorary fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London. Dr. Buckingham died in Boston February 19, 1877. Dr. D. W. Cheever says of him as a surgeon at the Boston City Hospital : "He always had new ideas ; usually practical, some- times eccentric, frequently brilliant. He was a tireless worker, he never gave up a case; was full of expedients; and his advice was usually v.'ise and judicial." Walter L. Burrage. Biog. by .son, Edward M. Buckingham, M.D. History of Boston City Hospital, 1906, D. W. Cheever, M.D. Trans. Amer. Gyn. Soc., 1877, vol. ii, G. H. Ly- man, M.D. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., March II, 1877. Buckler, Thomas Hepburn (1812-1901) One of two brothers, Baltimore doctors, Thomas H. Buckler was born at Evergreen, Maryland, on January 4, 1812, and was edu- cated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, taking his M. D. in 1835 with a thesis on "Animal Heat." He afterwards practised in this city as physician to the City Almshouse, and from 1866 to 1890 he became a Paris doctor under a license from the French government; then he returned to Baltimore. He was best known as a teacher and writer. His views were independent and original — some said original even to eccentricity. Qui- nan, in his "Medical Annals of Baltimore" gives a list of thirty-two of his writings, a great many of them on sanitary and social subjects, among other things, the filling up the "Basin" or inner harbor of Baltimore, with "Federal Hill," and the introduction of the waters of the Gunpowder River for the supply of Baltimore. The latter of these recommen- dations was carried out many years later. He introduced phosphate of ammonia for the treatment of gout and rheumatism, and as a solvent of uric acid calculi, and the lithic acid diathesis generally; also the hydrated succin- ate of the peroxide of iron for the prevention of gallstones. He laid great stress in the pa- thology of uterine affections on the strangula- tion of the vessels in the cervix and the result- ing malnutrition of the organ. More elabor- ate works are his history of the "Cholera Epi- demic of 1849" and a treatise on "Fibro-bron- chitis and Rheumatic Pneumonia," 1853. Dr. Buckler was a man of striking personal appearance and was much sought after on ac- count of his brilliant conversational powers and wit. He never had a large practice ; in fact never sought one, and lacked the steadi- ness and plodding perseverance of his brother. He was twice married and left a son, William H. There are two portraits of Dr. Buckler in the building of the Medical and Cliirurgical Faculty, Baltimore. Eugene F. Cordell. Budd, Abram Van Wyck (1830-1891) Abram Van Wyck Budd, surgeon, was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, October 17, 1830, and graduated at Mercersburg College in 1847, and from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1853. While there he was a private pupil of George B. Wood (q.v.) and afterwards spent two years in the Philadelphia ("Blockley") Hospital In 1855 a coal company at Egj'pt, North Carolina, offered young Budd a position as