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NAME BUDD 166 BULKELEY surgeon to their works and six years later, when Civil War came on, he was made surgeon in the Confederate army and served throughout the war. By natural instinct Dr. Budd was gifted as a surgeon, and for many years did all the sur • gery in and about Egypt. It was crude, but al- ways thorough and for the most part succes'j- ful. He removed many ovarian tumors and opened all his intestinal obstruction cases. He was unusually adept in lithotomy and his "high operation" was the subject of much comment in the '80's, but he never could be prevailed upon to report any of his cases. A colored woman, now aged seventy-five, told the writer that Dr. Budd opened the right side of her abdomen in 1880 and evacuated a large quantity of foul- smelling pus. He did this without any anes- thetic, first cutting through the skin, then in- troducing a needle and finally inserting his hand. His management of hysterical patients was the talk of the state during his active life and even now is referred to. His work in this field was sui generis. He knew how to con- trol hysterics. He snatched off the night cap of one ; built a fire under the bed of another ; he prepared to get into the bed of a woman who had not been out of it for two years but who took to flight and was cured by this treat- ment; still another was tied in a road cart, while the horse was lashed to a run for a mile or more — she was relieved of her "nervous- ness." In 1881 Dr. Budd removed to Lockport, a small settlement in the same county. Both here and at Egypt he had rooms in his house at the disposal of patients. They were fre- quently brought on stretchers from distant neighborhoods and were sometimes on the road for two or three days. He was exceed- ingly kind to the poor, on more than one oc- casion having taken the coat off his back and given it away. Dr. Budd was a large man, six feet tall, ec- centric in dress and, though very clean in his attire, practically never wore a collar. He was known as an original and independent char- acter. He married Anna C. Bryan in 1875 and had four children. Dr. Budd died in 1891. Six months before his death he went to Philadelphia to consult Dr. John H. Packard (q.v.) (his classmate) and Dr. William Pepper (q.v.). His friends in that city told him of the property formerly owned there by the Budd family, that just a few inches of earth sold off the top would have meant million's, and that, if he had remained there, it might all have been his. To this he re- plied : "Why, I would rather have fresh air, el- bow room and good water than all your mil- lions. I can't stand the Schuylkill." Hubert A. Royster. Personal interview with Mrs. A. V. Budd. Letters and papers of Dr. P. E. Hines, Mr. H. R, Home and others. A portrait in oils is in the possession of his niece, Mrs. W. B. Williams of Wilmington, N. C. Bulkeley, Gershom (163S?-1713) Gershom Bulkeley was a clerical physician of note, who had a large consulting practice in all parts of Connecticut. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, about the year 1635, his father being the celebrated divine. Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who was driven from Eng- land on account of his non-conforraity and set- tled in Concord, Massachusetts. Reared in the best of family surroundings, Gershom graduated from Harvard College in 1655 and shortly after studied for the minis- try. It is unknown from whom he received his medical instruction. His first charge was in New London, but after four years there he gave it up because of his opposition to the half-way covenant, and subsequently, on June 1, 1666, received a call to the church in Weth- ersfield, where he labored for eleven years, re- signing early in 1677, probably by reason of weakness of his voice. The rest of his life was devoted entirely to medicine, in the town of Glastonbur>'. During King Philip's War he rendered im- portant services as surgeon under Major Treat and was wounded in the thigh in a surprise attack near Wachusett Mountain. For this service he was well compensated, and also re- ceived the " hearty thanks" from the Colony's Council of War for his "good services to the country during this present war." His account books which remain bear evi- dence of his extensive practice, although he does not appear to have been licensed until 1686. A mass of manuscripts also survives giv- ing many of the remedies he employed. These are now in the possession of the Hartford Medical Society. He was well versed in chemistry, alchemy and was "master of several languages." Some of his political pamphlets have been handed down to us. He is said to have had few su- periors in his time. He married Sarah, daugh- ter of Pres. Chauncy (q.v.) of Harvard, on Oc- tober 26, 1659, and had by her six children, one of whom, John, was a clerical physician, of high rank in his day. Another son, Charles, also practised medicine. The father died in