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NAME BUMSTEAD 171 BURBANK and son oi John Irvine and Charlotte Glen Bulloch. He was equally well known in his state as a surgeon, physician and ocuhst. He grad- uated at Yale in 1835 and M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1838, afterwards studying in Paris and eventually settling in Savannah. He was one of the first in South Georgia to do a successful ovariotomy and other major operations, and for a long time stood alone as an opthalmologist. Ashhurst in his "Surgery" mentions Bulloch's splint for fracture of the lower maxilla. He had the reputalion of being a fine diagnostician and after the yellow-fever epidemic of 1854 in Beaufort was presented by the citizens there with two large silver pitchers. Always active in advancing his own science, Bulloch helped to found the Savannah Medi- cal College and was for many years professor of surgery there. His appointments and mem- berships included : President of the Georgia Medical Society; honorary member. Gyneco- logical Society of Boston ; surgeon in the Con- federate Army during the war and an organ- izer of the Confederate States Hospital, Rich- mond, Virginia. J. G. B. Bulloch. Bumstead, Freeman Josiah (1826-1879) Freeman J. Bumstead was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 21, 1826, a descendant of a New England family whose ancestors came from England and settled in Boston in 1750; his father was a prosperous merchant of Bos- ton ; his mother, Lucy Douglas Willis, the sis- ter of Nathaniel P. Willis, the poet. He graduated from Williams College in 1847, afterwards teaching for a short time, then receiving his degree of doctor of Iriedi- cine from the Harvard Medical School in 1851. A few months were spent in Paris studying venereal diseases, then in 1852 he lived in New York, being appointed surgeon to the Northern Dispensary in 1855 and in 1857 to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Early in his professional life he devoted his time to diseases of the eye and ear. In 1858 he re- ceived the degree of LL. D. from Williams College. After 1860 he returned to the specialty which had been his first choice, venereal dis- eases and genito-urinary surgery. He was a contributor to medical journals on venereal diseases and the translator of the "Hunter-Ricord Treatise" on venereal diseases and Cullerier's "Atlas of Venereal Diseases" ( 1854) ; the author of "Pathology and Treat- ment of Venereal Disease" and co-author with Robert W. Taylor of "Venereal Diseas- es" (1861), his most important work. In 1861 he married M. Josephine, daughter of Ferdinand E. White of Boston, and had five children. He died November 27, 1879. J. McF. WiNFIELD. In Memoriam, Freeman J. Bumstead, Dr. G. A. Peters, New York, 1880. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Burbank, Augustus Hannibal (1825-1895) This scientific physician, eccentric but of un- usual ability, was the son of Dr. Eleazer Bur- bank who, owing to poverty, twice walked 100 miles and back from Maine to the Dartmouth Medical School to attend the lectures. The father settled in Poland, Maine, in 1818, but in 1838 removed to Yarmouth in the same State. Whilst practising in Poland, he mar- ried Sophronia Ricker of that town, and their son, Augustus Hannibal, was born there Jan- uary 4, 1823. He prepared for college at the North Yarmouth Academy, was graduated at Bowdoin in the Class of 1843, obtained his medical degree at the Harvard Medical School in 1847, and immediately began practice in Yarraouthville, remaining there until the end of his life. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Banks of Portland, November 25, 1850, by whom he had one daughter. He married again in 1868, Alice Mary Thompson of Yar- mouthville by whom he had four children. Dr. Burbank was original in every respect, not greatly eccentric, but humorous ; never cross, full of genuine fun, and always young. He kept posted in medicine to the last, mas- tered the modern ideas of asepsis, and made extensive use of this knowledge for the bene- fit of his patients in his large obstetric prac- tice. He used to say "When I go to put a woman to be delivered of a child, I say 'Show me your teeth.' If she has good teeth, she is going to have a good deliverance, and that means a good child. If she has bad teeth, I say to myself 'Poor teeth ; poor bones ; poor deliverance.' " He was active in the Maine Medical Associa- tion, often taking part in the debates, and as president he would say to a member rising diffidently to speak: "Go on. Brother. I hope that you will have a good deliverance." Some of his prescriptions were odd and thi? is the way in which he would evade the pro- hibitory law. "Know all men by these pres- ents, that I, Augustus Hannibal Burbank, Doc- tor, do hereby command you, or your drug