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NAME DUBOIS 337 DUDLEY DuBois, Abram (1810-1891). Abram Du Bois, one of the founders of the American Ophthalmological Society, was a graduate of Trinity College (1830) and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York (1835). He was a pupil of Dr. Kearney Rodgers of New York (q. v.), and became his associate at the New York Eye Infirmary in 1843, with which institution he was actively connected for forty-eight years. He was not an author, but was fully devoted to his profession and pursued it with noble aims and in a worthy spirit, and made a generous gift to the library of the New York Academy of Medicine. He died in New York City, August 29, 1891, aged eighty-one years. Harry Friedenwald. Trans. Amer. Oph. Soc, 1891, vol. vi. Memoir, S. S. Purple, Tran., New York Med. Soc, 1892, vol. xi. Dubois, Henry Augustus (1808-1884). Henry Augustus Dubois was born in New York City, August 9, 1808, and died in New Haven, Conn., January 13, 1884. He was graduated at Columbia in 1827, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1830, after which for a time he was house physician to the New York Hospital. In 1831 he visited Europe, and there pursued studies under the masters in surgery and medicine. During his stay in Paris he became a member of the Polish committee there, holding weekly meetings at the residence of either Lafayette or J. Feni- more Cooper. It was his intention to join the Polish army, but he was finally dissuaded from that purpose. In 1834 he was one of the few Americans who followed the body of Lafay- ette to the grave, and was exposed in the at- tack made by the "red Republicans" to seize the body. He returned to New York in No- vember of that year, and entered on the active practice of his profession, becoming one of the physicians to the New York dispensary. In 1835 he married a daughter of Peter A. Jay, of the New York bar. Impaired health soon caused his removal to Ohio, where he had inherited a large tract of land, on which he laid out and in a great measure built up Newton Falls. While re- siding in the west he withdrew from active practice, but continued to act in consultation. In 1852 he returned to New York greatly im- proved in health, and became president of the Virginia Cannel Coal Company, and later of the Peytona Cannel Coal Company. Two years later he removed to New Haven. Dr. Dubois was a member of scientific so- cieties. Although he published no contribu- tions to medical science, he largely influenced the opinions of his professional brethren es- pecially in reference to scarlet fever. He con- tended that this disease is an asthenic epi- demic, and not amenable to medicines until it has run its course. In 1864 he received from Yale the degree of LL. D. for his reply to the seven English essayists, that was repub- lished in London. His son, Augustus Jay Dubois, educated at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and abroad, was professor of civil and mechanical engineering at Lehigh University. He con- tributed much to scientific literature. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog, New York, 1887, vol. ii, 237-8. Dudley, Augustus Palmer (1853-1905). A. P. Dudley was born at Phippsburg, Maine, July 4, 1853. His father. Palmer Dud- ley, and his mother, Frances Jane Wyman Dudley, were natives of that state. While a young lad his parents moved to Bath, wiiere he received his education in the city schools. Soon after leaving school at Bath, his parents moved to Portland, and young Dudley became an apprentice to the Portland Company, manu- facturers of all kinds of iron and .steel ma- chinery. He served his apprenticeship faith- fully, and when he left there he could (to use his own words) "build and run a locomotive, make a needle or a penknife." He had other aspirations and ambitions to the extent of read- ing and reciting in anatomy at irregular inter- vals in the office of his life-long friend. Dr. B. B. Foster, and he worked with the writer as a regular student. He was always ready to do anything in the line of professional work. At one time he took the position of night nurse at the Maine General Hospital, and improved all opportunities of seeing clinical work at the hospital and with surgeons in private practice. He took his first course of lectures at the Maine Medical School, where he was, for a time, demonstrator of anatomy. He gradu- ated at Dartmouth Medical School in 1877, and immediately began practice in Portland, where he remained until 1881, when his ambition led him to go to the Woman's Hos- pital in the State of New York, and there he remained as an interne for a year and a half. From there he went to San Francisco, Cali- fornia, as assistant surgeon in the State Wo- man's Hospital, returning to New York in 1884. He was appointed instructor in diseases of women at the Post-graduate Medical School in 1887 and visiting gynecologist to Randall's Island Hospital and Northeastern Dispensary, was afterwards made full professor of gyne-