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NAME BUSEY 178 BUSH lishcd there he was one of its most success- ful teachers. In July, 1875, he was appointed professor of diseases of infancy and child- hood in the Medical School of Georgetown University. In 1880 he was one of Dr. Ja- cobi's coadjutors in establishing the section of diseases of children in the American Med- ical Association. He presided over the first meeting, read the first paper, entitled "Chronic Bright's Disease in Children caused by Ma- laria," and was elected chairman of the sec- tion in 1881. He was also one of the found- ers of the American Pediatric Society. His interest in behalf of sick children remained unabated; in 1896-1897 he pointed out the ab- sence in Washington of suitable provisions for the treatment of contagious diseases, and thanks to his persistent efforts, pavilions were established in connection with two hospitals. He was also a founder of the American Der- matological Association. In 1875 he was elected president of the American Medical Association and in 1876 pro- fessor of theory and practice of medicine in the Medical School of Georgtown University, a position he filled until compelled by declining strength to give up active teaching. He re- ceived there in 1899 the LL. D. In 1877 he was elected president of the medical society of the District of Columbia and re-elected from 1894 to 1899, and helped largely in the founding of the Garfield Me- morial Hospital, the Washington Obstetrical Society, Columbia Historical Society, and the Washington Academy of Sciences. On the fiftieth anniversary of his gradu- ation, April 8, 1898, Dr. Busey was tendered a banquet by the local profession. How well he deserved this evidence of re- spect is shown by a list of more than forty distinct contributions to medical literature, besides his miscellaneous publications. The world is indebted to him for his work on "Congenital Occlusion and Dilatation of Lymph Channels," and his masterly exposi- tion of "The Wrongs of Craniotomy upon the Living Fetus," writings which have long since become classic. For several years he had been in delicate health, yet his interest in the Medical Society and Academy was so great that he rarely missed a meeting and also made the Academy the beneficiary of a bequest, without condi- tions, amounting to about $5,000. Peacefully and quietly in the early morn- ing hours of February 12, 1901, came the end, that end which despite anticipation or ex- pectation, was felt as a shock through a wide circle of friends and admirers in the city which he loved and which owed so much to his bright, fertile and discerning mind. He contributed many papers to the medical press, wrote an autobiographical sketch of his early life and "Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six Years Membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia and Residence in this City, with Bio- graphical Sketches of Many of the Deceased Members," 17-373 pp., 8°, Washington, 1895. George M. Kober. Bush, James Miles (1808-1875) James Miles Bush was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, May, 1808, and died in Lexington, February 14, 1875. His grandparents, Philip and Mary Bush, came from Germany in 1750 and settled in Winchester, Virginia. James Bush graduated A. B. from Centre College, Danville, Ky., and began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Alban Gold- smith, at Louisville, but removed in 1830 to Lexington to attend the medical department of Transylvania University. He became the private pupil of Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley (q.v.), and between the two men sprang up a warm and life-long attachment. In 1833 he received his M. D. from Tran- sylvania University and was at once apointed demonstrator and instructor in anatomy and surgery there, a place filled successfully till 1837, when he was made adjunct professor of anatomy and surgery in the same institution, under Dr. Dudley. In 1S44 he became full pro- fessor of anatomy. In 1850 the medical de- partment of Transylvania began to give only summer courses, and Dr. Bush, with others, established in Louisville a winter school, the Kentucky School of Medicine, where he filled, for three sessions, the chair of surgical anat- omy and operative surgery. Dr. Bush married, in 1835, Charlotte James of Chillicothe, Ohio. Two sons and one daughter were born to them, the eldest son, Benjamin Dudley Bush, inheriting his father's fondness for the study of medicine, gave great promise as a physician and surgeon. His early death was a shock from which his father never recovered. James Miles Bush, while distin- guished as a surgeon and performing a num- ber of times successfldly the then unusual op- eration of lithotomy, was also a general prac- titioner. His principal writings that have been pre- served are reports of interesting cases. These can be found in vol. x (1837) of the Transyl- vania Journal of Medicine. Two are : "An