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NAME HUDSON 574 HUGER he wrote one of the sections in de Schweinitz's "American Text-Book of Diseases of The Eye" (Philadelphia, 1899) ; also "The Develop- ment of Ophthalmology in America from 1800- 1870" (Chicago, 1908). He was associated edi- tor of the Buffalo Medical Journal and of the Ophthalmic Record. At the time of his death he was engaged in writing a work on Daviel. He married, June 26, 1872, at Leon, New York, Evangeline Fancher, daughter of Cap- tain William and Lydia Mills Fancher. Of the union was born one child, Bula, later Mrs. Everett Ward Olsted, of Ithaca. Hubbell died at the Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, August 10, 1911, of arteriosclerosis. Thom.^s Hall Sh.^stid. Amer. Encyclop. and Dictn'y of Ophthal., C. Wood, 1916, vol. viii,. Hudson, Erasmus Darwin (1805-1880). Erasmus Darwin Hudson was born in Tor- ringford, Connecticut, December 15, 1805. He was educated by a private tutor at Torring- ford Academy, and finally received his M. D. from the Berkshire Medical Institution in 1827. He first practised in Bloomfield, Connecticut, where he joined the Connecticut Medical So- ciety and interested himself in the cause of temperance. He lectured upon this subject in 1828 and from 1837-1849 was an agent of the Connecticut anti-slavery society and general agent of the American anti-slavery society. During the Civil War he was appointed by the government to fit orthopedic appliances to special cases of gun-shot injuries of the bone, and invented several of these appliances which received awards at the Paris Exposi- tion in 1857 and at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. In 1850 he removed to New York where he resided until his death, devoting himself to orthopedic surgery. During this period he wrote many papers and three monograms upon this subject, namelj', "Resections," New York, 1870, "Syme's Am- putation," New York, 1871, and "Immobile Ap- paratus for Ununited Fractures," New York, 1872. He published numerous reported cases in the "Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion," Washington, 1870-72. He died in Riverside, Greenwich, Con- necticut, December 31, 1880. His son, Erasmus Darwin Hudson, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts November 10, 1843, and died in New York, May 9, 1887. He was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1864, and at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Columbia, in 1867. After serving as house-surgeon of Bellevue Hospital he was health inspector of New York City in 1869-1870. Then followed a service as attending physician for diseases of the eye, in the Out Patient Department of Bellevue (1870-1872) and attending physician at the Northwestern Dispensary ; from 1870 until his death he was attending physician to Trinity Chapel Parish and to Trinity Home. For ten years (1872-1882) he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine in the Woman's Medical College and professor of general medicine and physical diagnosis in the New York Polyclinic from 1882 until his death. He published: "Diagnostic Rela- tions of the Indigestions," New York. 1876; "Methods of Examing Weak Chests," 1885 ; "Home Treatment of Consumptives," 1886; and "Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Dis- eases," 2d ed., 1887. Walter R. Steiner. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., New York, 1887. Huger, Francis Kinloch (1773-1855). Francis Kinloch Huger was born in Charles- ton, South Carolina, September, 1773, the son of Major Benjamin Huger and Mary Esther Kinloch. He was sent to England to school when he was eight years old, and re- turned to Carolina on a brief visit in 1791. He completed his education and studied medicine under the distinguished surgeon, John Hunter, of London, and in 1794 was engaged as sur- geon on the Medical Staff of the English Army in Flanders, under the Duke of York. Leaving the army he went to Vienna for study and there met Dr. Eric Bellman, a Han- overian physician, who, in October, 1794, in- formed him of the plan to liberate Lafayette who was then confined in the fortress of 01- mutz, and Dr. Huger volunteered to assist in the rescue. Dr. Bollman, through making acquaintance with the surgeon of the fortress, was enabled to lend French books to Lafayette and to in- dicate invisible writing. By this means of communication the plot for the rescue was per- fected. While out riding with two guards, on November 8, 1794, Lafayette alighted and gradually drew the officer who had him in charge away from the high road. Suddenly he grasped the hilt of the officer's sword and drew it and the two friends galloped to his as- sistance. In the scuffle the officer was slightly wounded and Lafayette's coat was stained with blood. Lafayette unfortunately misunderstood the directions of his friends to proceed to Hoff where a servant and horse awaited him. He was arrested at the village of Zagorsdorf as a suspicious person, identified and returned to Olmutz. Dr. Huger was surrounded and