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NAME BULLITT 170 BULLOCH amazement that anyone could possibly have been offended. With his patients he was af- fectionately gentle, though when occasion de- manded he would not refrain from offering an opinion upon their conduct for the amend- ment of their ways. Dr. Buller had a singu- lar instinct for diagnosis, which was quite apart from the usual process of reasoning; and in treatment he frequently obtained good results by methods which were inexplicable even to himself. Andrew Macphail. Cyclop. Canadian Biog., G. M. Rose, Toronto, 1888. Bullitt, Henry Massie (1817-1880) Henry Massie Bullitt, founder of Louisville Medical College and son of Cuthbert and Har- riet Willit Bullitt, was born in Shelby County, Kentuckj', on February 28, 1817. His father was a direct descendant of Ben- jamin Bullitt, the founder of the family in this country, who, refusing to surrender his religious views after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, came with his wife in 1685 from the Province of Languedoc, France, and settled in Maryland. Originally the name was spelled "Bullet" but, owing to the existence of an English law in this country by which aliens were prohibited acquiring landed property, Benjamin Bullet changed his name to Bullitt in order to hold the land which had been granted him in Amer- ica. At the age of seventeen he studied medicine with Dr. Coleman Rogers, Sr. (q.v.), and pur- sued his studies with rare devotion, entering the University of Pennsylvania, from which in- stitution he graduated in 1838 with high hon- ors. From Philadelphia he returned to Louis- ville and entered upon active practice. Bullitt passed the year 184S in Europe, where he availed himself of every opportunity to advance in medical knowledge and returned home liberally equipped with the fruits of his sojourn abroad. In 1846 he was elected a pro- fessor in the St. Louis Medical College, and lectured there during the sessions 1846-7 and 1S47-8. In 1849 he was called to the chair of materia mcdica in Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, at that time the oldesl and most renowned school in the Ohio valley. In 1850 Dr. Bulhtt organized the Kentuckj' School of Medicine, which entered upon its career in the winter of 1850-51, and in 1866 was elected to the chair of principles and practice of medicine in the Univcrsitj' of Lou- isville, the next year occupying the chair of physiology in the same school. In 1868 he established the Louisville Medical College, with which he remained and co-oper- ated several years. Dr. Bullitt was an able writer on profes- sional subjects. Prof. Charles Caldwell (q.v.) had said that: "None but professors practically trained in the West and South could competently lecture on western and southern diseases, hence a medical education acquired in the northern and eastern cities could not qualify for practice in the West and South," Dr. Bullitt entered an eloquent and potent protest against this heresy. His pa- per was published in the Medical Examiner, Philadelphia, in 1844 or 1845. Other papers were on the "Art of Observing in Medicine," published in the St. Louis Medical Journal. "Medical Organization and Reform;" "On the Pathology of Inflammation," published in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine. Dr. Bullitt held chairs in five medica) schools and in all showed great aptitude for teaching. He was co-editor of the St. Louis Medical Record, the Transylvania Journal of Medicine and Louisville Medical Record. His great affliction, deafness, was all that prevent- ed him from taking the foremost position among medical practitioners, teachers and wri- ters. This misfortune he bore with singular equanimity and fortitude. On May 26, 1841, Dr. Bullitt was married to Miss Julia Anderson and had seven chil- dren; only two lived to their majority. She died January 16, 1853. • On September 14, 1854, he was married to Mrs. Sarah Crow Paradise and had six chil- dren, one son and five daughters. She died December 3, 1901. The cause of Dr. Bullitt's death was Bright's disease. During his long and severe illness he was always cheerful and escaped some of the most dreadful sufferings which attend this disease. He had led a long and useful life, and often recalled many beautiful reminis- cences of his boyhood. A short time before his death, he read, with great joy and pleas- ing anticipation. Lord Lytton's beautiful poem, "There is no Death," greatly enjoying its fine gracefulness. He died on February S, 1880. James Morrison Bodine. Bulloch, William Gaston (1815-1885) William Gaston Bulloch was born at Savan- nah, Georgia, August 3, 1815, and died there June 23, 1885. He was the great grandson of Archibald Bulloch, first governor of Georgia