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NAME FROST 416 FULLER Frost, Henry Rulledge (1790-1866). Born at Charleston, South Carolina, Oc- tober 6, 1795, the boy had as father a clergy- man, one Thomas Frost, M. A., graduate of Caius College, Cambridge. England, who emi- grated to America in 1775, and for mother a woman of Hugenol ancestry descended from the Rev. Francis Le Jau, who fled to Sonth Carolina after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was educated at the Academy of Dr. Moses Waddell, at Wilmington, South Caro- lina, from which he graduated with honors, and then began to study medicine under Dr. Philip G. Prioleau, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1816. For the following two years he was resident physician in the Philadelphia Almshouse. From 1824 to 1832 he occupied the chair of materia medica in the Medical College of South Carolina and filled the same position in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina from 1832 to 1866. He was dean of the faculty from 1843 to 1846 and again frojn 1849 to 1861. In 1818 he began to practise at Charleston and was for several years physician to Shirras Dispensary. In 1822, in association with Drs. Dickson (q. v.) and Ramsay (q. v.), he deliv- ered private lectures in the Charleston Alms ered private lectures in the Charleston Alms- house to such students as were resident in the organization of the Medical College of South Carolina, in whose faculty he was elected to fill the chair of materia medica. During the many years when he was dean of the faculty he discharged the duties of his office with un- tiring energy. He died on April 7, 1866, from diarrhea. His skill and his warm tenderness won for him an enviable place in the hearts of the community in which he labored. He married Mary Deas, by whom he had six children. His most important publication was a vol- ume entitled "Outlines of a Course of Lectures on the Materia Medica." published at Charles- ton, South Carolina, 1851. Robert Wilson, Jr. Frothingham, George Edward (1836-1900). George Edward Frothingham, specialist in ophthalmology and otolog>% was born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, April 23, 1836, of English ancestry, and his general education was ob- tained in the public schhools and Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. After teaching for a time, he began to study medi- cine with Dr. W. V'. Greene (q. v.), professor of surgery in the medical department of Bow- doin College, Maine, and in 1864 received his M. D. from the medical department of Michi- gan University. After four years' practice at North Bccket, Massachusetts, Dr. Frothing- ham became demonstrator of anatomy and pro- sector of surgery at Michigan University, but spent some time at the eye hospitals of New York and cultivated eye and ear work at Ann Arbor. As a result, these cases became incon- veniently luimerous for the surgical clinic and a new chair was formed in 1870 for him as pro- fessor of ophthalmology and otology, and to meet the needs of a rapidly changing faculty, he for brief periods filled other chairs too. Thus in 1875 he was professor of practical anatomy ; in 1876 professor of materia medica and ther- apeutics. While living in Massachusetts Dr. Frothingham was a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Society and the Berkshire District Medical Society. In 1874 he was president of the Washtenaw County Medical Society; in 1889 president of the Michigan State Medical Society. Until 1889 he was ophthalmologist and aural surgeon to the Uni- ver.sity Hospital at Ann Arbor; from 1889 con- sulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Children's Free Hospital and Harper Hospital, Detroit, and during 1869-71 an editor of the Michigan University Medical Journal. His activity, both physical and mental, was ceaseless ; what- ever he undertook had all his power, all his time. In 1860 he married Lucy E. Barbour, and had four children. Dr. George E. Frothing- ham died April 24, 1900, at his home in De- troit from arteriosclerosis. The eldest son, George E., Jr., took up his father's specialty and became ophthalmic sur- geon to Harper Hospital and clinical professor of ophthalmology in Detroit College of Medicine. He published papers on ophthalomology and otology in the Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society, the Journal of the A)nerican Medical Association, and in other periodicals. Le.rtus Connor Hist, of Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1906. Cyclop, of Michigan. Detroit, 1900. Knapp's Archives of Ophthalmology, vol. xxix. Fuller, Samuel (1.580-1633). Samuel Fuller, the first practising physician to visit New England, was born in England and baptised in Redenhall Parish Church, Nor- folk County, January 20, 1580. He was the son of a butcher, Robert Fuller, but of hts