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HUGHES captured near the scene of the rescue and treated with the utmost rigor by his captors. Dr. Boltman was arrested at the frontier and both remained in prison eight months. Lafayette was in prison for three years after this event, but was not informed of the liberation of his friends.

In 1798, war with France being threatened, of Pennsylvania to complete his medical education and graduated in 1797.

In 1798, war with France being threatened, he was commissioned a captain in the United States Army, and in 1812 he was commissioned colonel and served in the war against England until 1815. He died in Charleston, February 14, 1855, in his eighty-second year.

In the reception room of the Chateau Lagrange, the home of Lafayette, on one side of the chimney hung a portrait of Dr. Huger. There is also a memorial medallion in the Medical Laboratory in the University of Pennsylvania.



Hughes, Charles Hamilton (1839–1916).

Charles Hamilton Hughes, neurologist and medicolegal expert, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, May 23, 1839. He came of a Welsh family, an early member of which settled in Ireland; Richard Hughes came from Tipperary to America about 1760. Hughes's father was Harvey J. Hughes, his mother, Elizabeth Rebecca, daughter of Zaccheus Stocker, founder of Elizabethtown, Indiana, named in honor of his daughter. Hughes's academic education was received at Grinnell (Iowa) College, and his M. D. was had at St. Louis Medical College in 1859. He served as surgeon during the Civil War, and was mustered out in 1865. In 1866 he was appointed superintendent of the Missouri State Lunatic Asylum, at Fulton, where he remained five years. He was a founder of the Marion-Sims Medical College, St. Louis, and was professor of psychiatry and neurology; was the first president of the faculty, and professor of nervous diseases at Barnes Medical College.

In 1876, before the psychiatry section of the International Medical Congress, at Philadelphia, he read a paper on "Simulation of Insanity, by the Insane." He was interested in the Italian contributions to psychiatry and suggested translations which led to a wider knowledge of the Italian School.

In 1880 he founded the Alienist and Neurologist and became its editor, holding this position until his death. He was a very prolific writer of papers, in his specialty, and of numerous monographs.

He was a member of the British Medico-psychological Association, and of several American medical societies.

Hughes married Addie, daughter of Luther Case, of St. Louis, in 1862; after her death he married (1873) Mattie Dyer, daughter of H. Lawther, of Calloway County, Missouri, who died before him.

He died at his home in St. Louis, July 13, 1916.



Hullihen, Simon P. (1810–1857).

Simon P. Hullihen, pioneer plastic surgeon and dentist, was born in Point Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1810. His father was Thomas Hullihen and his mother, Rebecca Freeze; his grandfather came from Ireland. Young Simon's early education at the township district school ended at seventeen.

When about nine years old he fell through a limekiln and badly burned his heels, putting him to bed for two years, after which he walked on his toes until boots were made from accurate plaster casts furnished by himself.

He began extracting teeth at his home, and commenced practice as a surgeon and dentist at Canton, Ohio, in 1832. In April, 1835, he married Miss E. Fundenburg at Pittsburgh, and went to Wheeling, Virginia, to remain the rest of his life. His M. D. degree was given by the Washington College, Baltimore; he practised surgery and dentistry exclusively.

Hullihen established a private hospital in Wheeling, and with the co-operation of Bishop Whelan, founded a hospital under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, chartered March, 1850, as the "Wheeling Hospital"; his associate being Dr. M. H. Houston.

An item from his notes covering the last ten or twelve years of his life cites these memoranda as to the operations he had performed:

Cataract …  200   times Cleft-palate …  50   "   Antrum cases   …   200   " Making new noses …  25   "   Making new under-jaws   …   10   " Hare-lip …  100   "   Cancers   …   150   " Strabismus …  100   "   Making new lips   …   50   " General surgery …  200   "