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NAME DUDLEY 340 DUHRING Dudley, Ethelbert Ludlow (1818-1862). A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley, anatomist and surgeon, was born February 25, 1818. He was the son of Col. Ambrose and Martha Catherine Ludlow Dudley, the former distinguished in the war of 1812. Dudley first selected law as his profession at Harvard, but soon discovered his preference for a medical career ; his father, however, re- quired him to complete his law course, which he did, obtaining his degree. He then began to study medicine at Transylvania University, graduating in 1842. He continued, however, his studies in the school during the two follow- ing sessions under the tutelage of his uncle, Benjamin W. Dudley, who was for so many years the professor of anatomy and surgery, and for whom he acted as prosector during this period. Before the next session he was made demon- strator of anatomy at this University, and in 1847 was promoted to the chair of general and pathological anatomy. In 1849 he originated and continued to edit for three years the old Transylvania Medical Journal, a new series of the Transylvania- Jour- nal of Medicine, and in 1859 accepted a call to the chair of descriptive anatomy and histology in the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, which was just then being organized and to which many of the Transylvania professors were going for the winter session By his talents and indefatigable energy he contributed very greatly to the success of this school. In the second year of the Kentucky School of Medicine he was promoted to the chair of surgical anatomy and operative surgery and conducted the surgical clinic at the Marine Hospital for the classes in both of the Louis- ville schools. In 1853 Dudley, with the other Transylvania professors, resigned and re- turned to Lexington where he continued his duties in the renewed winter sessions of the latter school. Among the most striking characteristics of Dudley was his wonderful energy, his enthu- siasm, and these qtialities, combined with his unusual mental gifts and his entire devotion to his profession, made his short career a most notable one. At the outbreak of the Civil War, led by his loyalty to the Union he was actively instru- mental in the organization of a battalion of "home guards" of which he was commandant. He later obtained authority to organize a regi- ment, the Twenty-first Kentucky ; of this regi- ment he was made colonel and took with him as adjutant his only son, a boy less than eight- een years of age. He had taken his regiment to the southern part of the state and while physician and surgeon to his men as well as commanding officer, he fell a victim to typhoid fever in February, 1862, at Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky. Dr. Dudley married Mary Dewees Scott, a daughter of Matthew T. Scott, president of the Northern Bank of Kentucky, by whom he had two children, a son, Scott, and a daughter, Louise. John W. Scott. Hist. Medical Department of Transylvania Uni- versity, Robert Peter. Louisville, 1905. Dugas, Louis Alexander ( 1 806- 1 884 ). Louis Alexander Dugas was born in Wash- ington, Georgia, January 3, 1806, of French West Indian parentage. After receiving hii early education from a private tutor he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. John Dent, of Augusta, then studied at the Uni- versity of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1827. He passed four years in Europe, then settled down to practice in Augusta. In 1832 he was one of the founders of the Medical College of Georgia, and filled the chair of surgery, retaining this position until the close of his life. He several times served as presi- dent of the Medical Association of Georgia, also became editor of the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal in 1851, and edited it for seven years. As early as 1856 he pointed out a most valuable diagnostic sign of dislocation of the shoulder joint, embodying it in a paper. During the war he was a volunteer surgeon in many of the military hospitals. He died at his home in Augusta when seventy- eight years old. His first wife (1833) was Mary C. Barnes, and his second (1840) Louisa V. Harriss. He gave much attention to diseases of the eye, and in 1840 did an operation in certain conditions of corneal staphyloma which met with general favor. This operation was the abscission of the cornea. In the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal for 1837 he pub- lished a paper on "Purulent Ophthalmia," and he was the author of a dozen important papers on various topics. Me.l. News, Phila., 1884. A Century of American Medicine, S. D. Gross, 1S76. Duhring, Louis Adolphus (1845-1913). Louis Adolphus Duhring, a distinguished American dermatologist, was born in Philadel- phia, December 23, 1845 ; his father, Henry Duhring, and his mother, Caroline Duhring,.