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NAME GOODELL 449 GOODHUE international reputation. He was appointed lecturer on obstetricts and diseases of women in the University of Pennsylvania in 1870 and clinical professor of the diseases of women and children in 1874 and taught gynecology for twenty years, on resigning being made honorary professor of gynecology. In 1871 the University of Pennsylvania gave him her M. D. Hirst says of him : "His work of all kinds was of the most painstaking and methodical character. . . . Dr. Goodell united in his professional career two distinct phases of de- velopment, with either one of which an ambitious man might well have been content. His greater distinction and stronger claim for remembrance as long as medicine has a literature will be, his achievements as a stu- dent and writer. . . . Some of his happiest hours were spent in the library of the College of Physicians in desultory reading. Here he chanced upon Louyse Bourgeois's book which he made the basis of Bourgeois's life and writings in a charming" sketch that was read before the Philadelphia County Medical So- ciety in 1876. As a practical gynecologist, Dr. Goodell's chief claim to distinction lay in his wide and well-digested experience, his good judgment, and his powers of diagnosis." In 1894 failing health obliged him to resign work and he died on the twenty-seventh of October, 1894. aged sixty-five. In September, 1857, he had married Caroline Darlington, daughter of Judge Thomas S. Bell of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Dr. Goodell was one of the founders and president of the Philadelphia Obstetrical So- ciety and of the American Gynecological So- ciety, honorary fellow of the Edinburgh Ob- stetrical Society, corresponding fellow of the London Obstetrical Society, honorary fellow of the Imperial Medical Society of Constanti- nople, fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, professor and honorary profes- sor of gynecology in the University of Penn- sylvania. Among his contributions to medical litera- ture there was only one in book form, "Lessons in Gynecology" (1879), which passed through three editions in his lifetime, each carefully revised by the author. A bibliography of his writings contains 113 titles. Am. Gyn. and Obstet. Jour., W. H. Parish, N. Y., 1895, vol. vi. Am. .Toiiv. Obstet., T. Parvin, N. Y., 1894, vol. XXX. Med. News, Phila., 1894, vol. Ixv. Tr. Am. Gyn. Soc, B. C. Hirst, Phila., 1895, vol. XX. 539-54/, Bibliography. Portrait. Goodhue, Josiah (1759-1829) This pioneer surgeon of Vermont was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, January 17, 1759, the son of the Rev. Josiah Goodhue, A. B. Harvard, 1755. The future doctor entered Harvard just previous to the Revolution, but when the college closed its doors at the break- ing out of the war he returned to his home, and, owing to a white swelling of one of his knees, was sent to consult Dr. Thomas Kitt- redge of Andover (1746-1818). Kittredge had a great reputation as a bonesetter and surgical operator. Young Goodhue became his pupil and spent two years studying "physic and surgery" with him, then going to Putney, Vermont, where his family then resided, tj begin practice. He had only a half dozen volumes in his library, but by industry, courage and perseverance soon gained a large follow- ing and his practice extended from Vermont into New Hampshire and Massachusetts. It is said that his first major operation, the amputation of a leg, was performed without ever having seen it done before. In time he took pupils, as was the custom before the medical schools opened their doors, his most famous student being Nathan Smith (q. v.), and Smith very likely was instrumental in having the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine conferred on his old master by Dartmouth Medical School in 18(X). Dr. Goodhue served for one session as repre- sentative in the State Legislature and he was president of the Windham County Medical Society for many years. In 1803 he removed to Chester, Vermont, where he practised until 1816, when he settled in Hadley, Massachusetts. In 1823 he was appointed president of the Berkshire Medical Institution in Pittsfield and there he delivered the inaugural address at the first annual commencement, that was pub- lished at the request of the trustees by "Phine- has Allen," Pittsfield, a pamphlet of fourteen pages. Dr. Goodhue continued to serve the medical college, which he had helped to start on its forty years of teaching and conferring med- ical degrees in Western Massachusetts, until his death si.x years later. His practice in operative surgery was most extensive. He toid Dr. S. W. Williams, his biographer, that he had trepanned upwards of forty times and had operated for strangulated hernia on an equal number of patients. He made the further statement that so far as he knew "he was the first to amputate at the shoulder joint of any man in New England." Just think of an operation of such magnitude, without