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NAME DUNLOP 344 DUNLOP "for doing such things." This first operation, which was done on September 17, 1843, without an anesthetic, resulted fatally on the twentieth day. In the face of such discouragements, with- out hospital facilities, trained nurses or as- sistants, without anesthetics or antiseptics, and with limited operative experience, Dr. Dunlap boldly and successfully operated on his second case in 1849. Preceding his first operation, there is the record of eighteen completed ovariotomies, thirteen of which were by McDowell, and one of which (Alice's) antedated Dunlap's case less than three months ; there were also reported a few abandoned operations, but of all these he certainly knew nothing, except the bald fact that McDowell had successfully removed ovarian tumors. It was the privilege of the writer to assist Dr. Dunlap on several occasions. There was nothing spectacular about his methods. He was always a slow, methodical operator, using few instruments and with a technic which was simplicity itself. Undoubtedly his success was due largely to the postoperative care given his patients. Dr. Dunlap did his own nursing, and he did it well. It was not unusual for him to con- stantly attend the bedside of a patient for a week or more after operating, until the re- sult, for good or bad, was assured. The later years of his life were full of suffering. Twice he underwent lithotripsy. His son. Dr. C. W. Dunlap, who was associ- ated with him in practice, died before him. We have from his pen a paper on "Ovari- otomy" (Transactions of the Ohio State Med- ical Society, 1868) and an "Address" before the same society in 1869. William J. Conklin. Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour., 1894. In Memoriam. New York Jour, of Gynec. and Obst., 1894. Trans, of the .^mer. Gynec. Soc, 1894. Trans. Amer. Assoc, of Obst. and Gynec, 1894. Dunlop, WilHam (1791-1848). William Dunlop, eccentric Canadian physi- cian, writer, editor, fighting surgeon and poli- tician, was bom in 1791 in Greenock, Scotland. He was surgeon in the Connaught Rangers, and was in the war with the United States (1812-1815), sometimes "laying down the lan- cet for the bayonet, and inflicting wounds in- stead of curing them." Incidents of his bravery are told, one of which is that he carried many wounded men out of range of the firing ; one borne on Dunlop's back received a mortal wound, which but for being intercepted would have reached the surgeon (Strickland's "Twen- ty-seven Years in Canada West"). After the Treaty of Ghent he went to Cal- cutta, where his conviviality led him to use "brandy and water to keep out the intense heat of India with as much activity as he had for- merly employed it to keep off the intense cold of Canada." His accomplishments in India were not limited to medical and military ser- vice ; he edited a newspaper, and he killed such a vast number of tigers that the name of "Tiger" became a commonly known title for him. An attack of jungle fever sent him home. His next venture was a course of lectures on medical jurisprudence, a great mixture of "fun and learning, of law and science," and full of rough jokes. Under the name of "Colin Ballantyne" he wrote for Blackwood. He went to London and edited a morning paper, the British Press; then started a Sunday paper called the Telescope, devoted to India interests. He edited also T. R. Beck's "Medical Jurispru- dence." He became interested in companies of all sorts, and founded a club called "The Pig and Whistle." In 1826, when the Scotch novelist, John Gait, returned to Canada to organize plans of operation for the Canada Company, Dunlop was made "Warden of the Black Forest" for the Company, went to Canada and remained there the rest of his life. When Gait founded Guelph in Ontario, Dunlop helped to cut down the first tree to begin the city. Dunlop was constantly consulted by emi- grants concerning their affairs, and published a book, "Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada for the Use of Emigrants, by a Backwoods- man," which was extensively reviewed in Prei- ser's Magazine (July, 1832). The reviewer says of it : "A pleasanter little hook never came out of the press — full of information of all kinds, full of reading, full of sagacity, full of humour." He wrote "The Autobiography of a Rat" for the Canadian Literary Magazine. In 1836 he founded the "City of Toronto Liter- ary Club," before which he lectured ; he was first representative for the Huron District in the Provincial Parliament in 1841 ; he was Colonel of the Huron Invincibles in Macken- zie's rebellion in 1837. Witty and overflowing with a sense of humor, he was not above practical joking. He and a brother (Captain "Sandy" Dunlop) lived together, borrowed money of their house- keeper and also failed to pay her wages. When the sum grew so large that payment seemed hopeless, Dunlop told his brother that the only way to settle the debt was for one of them to