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NAME GALLUP 420 GALT General Disease Action," and yearly he de- iivered similar addresses on the important advances in medicine. He was in 1820 elected professor of theory and practice of medicine and materia medica, and also president of the Academy of Medi- cine, which had been established in Castle- ton in 1818. He occupied these positions until 1823. Afterwards he was professor for a yta.T at the Medical School in connection with the University of Vermont and he soon after became absorbed in the formation of a medical school in his home town of Woodstock. The ■Clinical School of Medicine, started there in 1827, was Gallup's child and was almost wholly •due to his self-denying labor. He was its first professor of the institutes of medicine, of materia medica, of clinical medicine and of obstetrics. To instruct students in the actual treatment of disease an infirmary was established and there patients were treated free during the lecture seasons. In connec- tion with the school and as an aid to students a monthly medical magazine was established and lasted for a year or two. It was called : Domestic Medical and Dietetical Monitor or Journal of Health. During the first few years Gallup seems to have been pretty much the whole faculty. The only charge made to pu- pils was a matriculation fee. Dissensions arose, however, in the faculty, which resulted in Gallup's withdrawing in 1834 from all con- nection with the school. He was then in his sixty-fifth year. He removed to Boston, where he remained for a time, but later returned to Woodstock, where he died October 12, 1849. His best work, the full title of which is "Sketches of Epidemic Diseases in the State of Vermont from its First Settlement to the Year 1815 with a Consideration of Their Causes, Phenomena and Treatment, to which is added Remarks on Pulmonary Consump- tion," was published in 1815 in Boston. It is a work which involved apparently considerable labor and without doubt represented correctly the views at that day in regard to epidemic diseases. He published a more elaborate work in two volumes on the "Institutes of Medi- cine" in 1839 and besides these was a prolific writer of papers for the state medical societies. He was a commanding figure in the medical profession of Vermont for at least two dec- ades. He was the fourth surgeon in America to perform ovariotomy. Dr. Gallup married Abigail G. Willard in September, 1792. Their children were Lewis A., who became a doctor, Harriet A., and George G. Charles S. Caverlv Gait, Alexander D. (1777-1841) This alienist, the son of Dr. John M. (q.v.) and Judith Craig Gait, was born at Williams- burg, Virginia, on December 27, 1777, his father the chief surgeon of the military hospi- tal situated at Williamsburg during the Revo- lutionary war. He received his education at William and Mary College, and studied medi- cine for a time under his father, his profes- sional education being completed in London, where, as a pupil of Sir Ashley Cooper, he attended lectures at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals. Returning to Virginia in 1796, he began to practise in his native town and unremittently engaged in its duties to the end of his life. He was made physician to the Hospital for the Insane at Williamsburg in 1800, and filled the position for forty-one years, introducing the most approved methods of treatment. He studied his cases with great care, used judgment in the selection of remedies, keeping notes on the history and treatment of cases and results obtained. So accurately were these recorded that from his notes his son. Dr. John M. Gait, compiled and published in 1845 a work entitled "Gait's Practice of Medicine." He married, in 1812, Mary D. Gait, of Rich- mond, and had four children, two of whom, a son and a daughter, survived him. This sun was Dr. John M. Gait (q.v.), the second of the name, and a well-known alienist. In June, 1840, his health had become so enfeebled as to confine him to the house, but as long as he was able, he saw patients in his room, his old patrons constantly applying to him for relief. His last illness was characterized by much suffer- ing, but in the intervals of freedom from pain he noted down his symptoms and the rem- edies used. On the twentieth of November, 1840, he died and was buried in the old Bruton Churchyard near the graves of his parents. Robert M. Slaughter. Gait, John Minson (17— - 1808) It is not known when this surgeon of the Revolution was born, nor where he received his education, but he was a physician of great eminence, and chief surgeon of a military hos- pital situated at Williamsburg during the Rev- olutionary War. In 1795 he was appointed visiting physician to the hospital for the In- sane at Williamsburg, the first hospital of the kind to be established until his death, his son. Dr. A. D. Gait (q.v.) and his grandson, Dr. John M. Gait, 2d (q. v.), holding the office for forty-one and twenty years respectively. Beginning with James, the first keeper, who