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DOUGHTY, "Dr. Dorsey took hold of a button of my coat and thus addressed me: 'Doctor, is it not remarkable that after having delivered my introductory lecture I was praying to my God that I might not postpone my repentance to a dying bed, and in one hour after that prayer I was smitten with my disease?'"

The large room in which he lay was filled with ladies and gentlemen, Physick, Horner, Ralston and several medical students being there also. Dorsey then asked to be baptized, which was done by Dr. Janeway. His last words were: "I have a desire to live and remain with my family, but my desire to be with Christ is far greater."

Thus died a man whom a longer life might have seen equalling a Hunter or a Wistar, a man whose short life was so remarkable that it may long attract the reader of medical biographies.



Doughty, William Henry (1836–1905).

William Henry Doughty was born in Augusta, Georgia, February 5, 1836, son of Ebenezer Wesley Doughty, a leading business man of Augusta, and Margaret Crowell.

He was educated at Richmond Academy, and in medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, where his preceptors were Dugas, Ford, Eve, Campbell, receiving his M. D. in 1855. He practised in Augusta all his life. He was a surgeon in the Confederate Army, serving with distinction in Macon Hospital, Walker Division Hospital at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, and in the Second Georgia Hospital.

He was instrumental in founding the board of health of Augusta, and largely drafted the act of legislature for the board.

He was professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Medical College of Georgia. He wrote: "Adaptation of Climate to the Consumptive for a Permanent Residence"; "A General Comparison of the Eastern and Western Slopes of America with the Southern Slopes of Europe"; "Special Climate of the Pacific Slope"; "Comparison of the Entire Pacific Slope with the State of Florida"; "The Physical Geography of the North Pacific Ocean, the Peculiarities of its Circulation, and Their Relations to the Climate of the Pacific Coast of the United States"; "Report of Two Cases of the Ligature of the Subclavian Artery"; "Atmospheric Distention of the Vagina in the Knee-Chest Posture; Is It the Real Factor, or Simply an Auxiliary in Reduction of Retro-Displacement"; "The Primary Conversion of Occipito-Anterior Positions of the Vertex with Cases Illustrating the Practice"; "The Therapeutic Effects and Uses of Mercury as Influenced by the Report of the Edinburgh Committee on the Actions of the Mercury, Podophyllin and Taraxacum on the Biliary Secretions"; "True Method of Treating Dislocations, Upwards and Backwards of the Scapular End of the Clavicle, with Report of a Case Illustrating the Principle Employed."

In 1855 he married Julia Sarah, daughter of Dr. William L. Felder, of Sumter, South Carolina.

He was in failing health for many weeks, but practised until his death on March 27, 1905.

Dr. Doughty was greatly beloved in his community, and at his death requests for permission to toll church bells during the funeral services came from Roman Catholics, and from other congregations, both white and negro.

His son was Dr. William Henry Doughty, Jr., of Augusta.



Douglas, James (1800–1886).

James Douglas, pioneer alienist in the province of Quebec, was the son of the Rev. George Douglas, a prominent Methodist and a friend of the Rev. John Wesley. He was born at Brechin in Angus, Scotland, May 20, 1800, and his early education was received in Dumfries. During the winter of 1812–1813 he was sent to Wesleyan College at Woodhouse Grove in Yorkshire, but taking French leave from there returned to Dumfries. The next year his father was stationed at Penrith in Cumberland, and he was bound there for five years as an apprentice to Dr. Thomas Law, an uncle of Lord Ellenborough. In the autumn of 1818, having completed his indenture, he betook himself to Edinburgh as a student of medicine. Even before the close of the session he accepted the position of surgeon to a Greenland whaler, sailing from Hull, which was fortunate in penetrating the Arctic Circle nearer to the North Pole than any ship prior to that date, except those under the command of Sir John Ross. At the close of his Arctic voyage he resumed his medical studies, and received his diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, April 7, 1820. At Edinburgh he was one of the first pupils of Robert