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NAME BULKLEY 167 BULL Wethersfield in 1713 and is buried in the cem- etery there, back of the Congregational church. Walter R. Stein er. Address on the Early Physicians of Conn., Sum- ner. Trans. Conn. Med. Soc., 1892. Early Medicine and Early Medical Men in Conn., G. W. Russell, Hartford, 1892. The Reverend Gershom JBulkeley, an Eminent Clerical Physician, Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., 1906, xvii. Harvard Graduates, J. L. Sibley, 1873, i, pp. 389- 402. The Bulkeley Family, Chapman. Bulklcy, Henry Daggett (1804-1872) Henr>- Daggett Bulkley, the son of John Bulkley, ship captain and trader, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, April 4, 1804, and graduated from Yale in 1821. For a number of years he engaged in business in New York but tiring of this he studied medicine under Dr. Jonathan Knight (q.v.) and received his M. D. from Yale in 1830. The year 1831 was spent in Europe, most of the time in Paiis, where he attended the lectures of Biett and Al- bert at the St. Louis Hospital. In 1833 he set- tled in New York City where he was immedi- ately appointed surgeon to the department cf skin diseases in the New York Dispensary. In 1837 he delivered a course of lectures on this specialty at the Broome Street Infirmary for Skin Diseases, an institution founded and for many years sustained by him. These lectures were undoubtedly the first on skin diseases given in America. In 1842 he delivered a spe- cial course during the spring term of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. He was for three years editor of the New York Med- ical Times and edited the American edition of Burgess' "Translation of Cazenave," and Sche- del's "Diseases of the Skin." In 1848 he was appointed one of the at- tending physicians to the New York Hospital, holding the position until the close of his life. He was, perhaps, the earliest writer on in- fantile syphilis in this country. His article of sixty-six pages on "Syphilis in Infants" ap- peared in 1840 and was considered a work of great importance at that time. He died of pneumonia in New York Janu- ary 4, 1872. He was twice married, his second wife being Miss Julia Barnes of Oneida, New York. One of his sons, Lucius Duncan Bulk- ley, became a cutaneous specialist in New York City. In the year 1867 he was president of the Medical Society of the County of New York; 1869, president of the New York Academy of Medicine; 1870, president of the New York Dermatological Society. J. McF. WiNFIELD. New York Med. Jour., 1872, vol. xv, 221-224. Med. Reg. of New York, 1872, vol. x. Bull, Charles Stedman (1844-1911) Charles Stedman Bull, born in New York April 21, 1844, was a distinguished ophtbal- m.ologist in the city of his birth, a man wide- ly known, who exercised a marked influence in the development of his specialty. He was the American editor of J. Solberg Wells's "Dis- eases of the Eye," 1880-1883, and an extensive contributor to the literature of ophthalmology from 1870-1910, covering in his literary activ- ity the unusual period of forty years. He graduated A. B. from Columbia in 1865, and A. M. in 1867, and received his medical de- gree from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, a branch of Columbia, in 1868. After a residency of two years in Bellevue Hospital he went to Germany and to France for post- graduate studies, returning to New York to a general practice in 1871. In that year Bull showed his special bent when he joined the American Ophthalmological Society. He began special work in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, and in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and was visiting ophthalmic surgeon to the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island from 1875 to 1880; in 1881 he dropped all gen- eral practice for ophthalmology. In the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary he served suc- cessively as assistant surgeon, surgeon, direc- tor, and executive surgeon of the board of di- rectors. He also held positions on the staflts of St. Luke's, the Presbyterian and St. Mary's Free hospitals. He was president of the American Ophthalmological Society from 1903 to 1907, and was corresponding secretary of the New York Academy of Medicine from 1903 to 1910. He lectured at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and in the Cornell University Medical College. Some 120 papers relating to the eye are listed by his biographer, Dr. Wm. H. Carmalt, in the Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, Vol. xii, Part iii. Bull's contributions to ophthalmic literature, while not original in the sense of recording important discoveries, were valuable from the standpoint of imparting his large clinical ex- perience to the profession of the country. His most important and numerous papers deal with the various orbital growths and their treatment ; his large experience in this field is summarized in the well-known chapter on dis- eases of the orbit in "Diseases of the Eye" by Norris and Oliver, 1898. He also wrote the article on diseases of the eye for Park's "Sys- tem of Surgery by American Authors." In Carmalt's list, 17 papers deal with tumors of the orbit. Bull's interest in his specialty seems