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GULICK the New York Urological Society. For many years he was secretary to the Pan-American Medical Congress, and served on Government Advisory Boards; in 1916 President Wilson commissioned him to report on the sentiment of the people of Cuba in regard to the European War, and his investigation was published.

He was a good teacher and gave special attention to instructing post-graduate students by a graduated course leading straight from the simpler and fundamental methods of urological asepsis and examination up to the operative procedures.

In 1912 he published a comprehensive treatise on urology in two volumes, including the urinary diseases of both men and women, an exposition of his teaching of twenty years. He was author of another book, and was at work on a third at the time of his death, which occurred from meningitis, at the French Hospital, New York, December 13, 1917.

He was unmarried, and made an interesting disposal of his property by will: To the town of Bristol his residuary estate was left for the erection of a public school building in memory of his mother, with the suggestion that it be designed after the residence of "Mrs. Mudge at Papoosequan, and be all in white." The Post-Graduate Hospital, Columbus Hospital and the Academy of Medicine received bequests, and $5,000 was left to the Bristol Yacht Club "to buy catboats and rowboats for the use of guests."

Dr. Juan Guiteras, Havana, Cuba, eminent internist, who did notable work in yellow fever, was a cousin of Ramon Guiteras.



Gulick, Luther Halsey (1865–1918)

Luther Halsey Gulick, physical educator, was born at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, December 4, 1865, son of Luther Halsey and Louisa Lewis Gulick. He was a student at Oberlin College 1880–82 and 1883–86; a student at Sargent Normal School of Physical Training, Harvard, 1865; he graduated from New York University medical school in 1889. He was appointed director of physical training in the public schools of New York City in 1903, remaining in this position until 1908, following a term of seven years as superintendent of the physical training department of the Young Men's Christian Association Training School at Springfield, Massachusetts, 1886–1903. He was director of the department of child hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation, 1907–13; president of Camp Fire Girls from January, 1913, to the time of his death. He was editor of the Physical Education Review, 1901–3, Association Outlook, 1897–1900, and Gulick Hygiene Series. He was president of the American Physical Education Association, 1903; vice-president of the Young Men's Christian Association Athletic League of North America, 1903–6; president of the Public School Physical Training Society, 1905–8; and president of the Playground Association of America, 1906–9; also secretary of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York, 1903–8. Dr. Gulick lectured on school hygiene and personal hygiene, physical training and play, at New York University in 1906; was a member of the Olympic Games Committee, Athens, 1906, London, 1908; United States delegate to the second International Congress on School Hygiene, London, 1907. He received from the Young Men's Christian Association Training School, Springfield, Mass., the degree of Master of Physical Education; was consultant of the New York Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases, 1907, and a member of the Permanent Committee of the International Congress of School Hygiene.

He wrote books on the subject of physical culture, among which are: "The Efficient Life," 1907; "Physical Education by Muscular Exercise," 1904; and "Mind and Work," 1908.

He married Charlotte Vetter, of Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1887.

Dr. Gulick had recently returned from a trip to France, in the interest of the Young Men's Christian Association, for the purpose of making a survey of the moral environments of the American Expeditionary Forces, when his death took place. He died at South Casco, Maine, August 13, 1918.



Gundry, Richard (1830–1891)

Richard Gundry was born at Hampstead, London, England, October 14, 1830. His father, the Rev. Jonathan Gundry, was a Baptist clergyman who early imbued his son with a love of learning and was able to send him to a private school in the neighborhood, where he gained his first knowledge of the classics. At fifteen he came with his parents to Simcoe, Canada, where after a brief period of study in a Latin school he was thrown largely upon his own resources. He obtained the means for pursuing his professional education by writing in the office of an attorney and began to study medicine under Dr. Coverton, Toronto, graduating in 1851 at Harvard