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NAME LUNDY 721 LUSK a position he continued to hold until 1892, when he was made professor of diseases of children. This chair he continued to hold un- til his death, ahhough in 1895 a professorship of clinical medicine was added to his duties. He was also chief of the clinic for diseases of children at the O'Fallon Dispensar)-, and instructor in the children's department of Bethesda Hospital from 1892 on. He was edi- tor of the St. Louis Medical Rcvieiv in 1884- 86. Mrs. Luedeking, who survived her husband, was a daughter of S. W. Biebinger, formerly president of the Fourth National Bank. The two children were both girls. Quarterly Bull. Med. Dept. of Wash. Univ., St. Louis, Mo., March, 1908. Lundy, Charles J. (1846-1892) Charles J. Lundy of Detroit was in early life a teacher at a Business College and re- ceived his A. M. degree at the Notre Dame University (Indiana). His first course in medicine was taken at the Rush Medical Col- lege, but in consequence of the great fire he was forced to leave, and took his final course at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1872. Returning to Notre Dame as resident physician he remained there for two years. He then took up post-graduate studies at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and en- gaged in general practice in Detroit. Subse- quently he again studied in New York, de- voting himself to the diseases of the eye and the ear, having as his masters Agnew, Web- ster, Noyes, Callam, and others and returned to Detroit to engage in special practice. He was one of the founders of the Michigan Col- lege of Medicine and its professor of diseases of the eye and ear and throat, and later in the consolidated institution the Detroit College of Medicine. He was an able and forceful writ- er, and his contributions to literature are nu- merous ; some of these are in the Surgeon- general's Catalogue, Washington, District of Columbia. He died May 24, 1892. H.-RRY FrIEDENWALD. Trans. Mich. State Med. Soc, 1892, vol. Xvi, 425-430. Portrait. III. Med. Jour., Leonard, Detroit, 1892, vol. xiii. No. 3, 5. Lusk, William Thompson (1838-1897) William Thompson Lusk was born May 23, 1838, in the town of Norwich, Connecticut, and died in New York on June 12, 1897, and was the son of Sylvester Graham and Eliza- beth Freeman Adams Lusk, and the great- great-grandson of John Lusk, who, emigrat- ing from Scotland, died at Wethersfield, Con- necticut, in 1788. He was educated at the best schools and re- membered especially the admonition of the Head Master at Russell's Military School in New Haven in 1854-55, given to some late comers from the Southern States, "Boys, I suppose I must accept these excuses from your parents, but when you pass from here into the outside world you will find that ex- cuses do not count." Entering Yale in 1855, he was the room mate of his life long friend, William Walter Phelps, and the two strove for high honors in the class. He had difficulty with his eyes and left college after a year. A strict train- ing in the classics gave him the mental excel- lency of the old-fashioned scholarship, a schol- arship evidenced in all his writings. Shortly after leaving college he went abroad and stud- ied medicine during two years in Heidelberg and in Berlin, anticipating the receipt of a degree from Berlin at the end of a third year. The outbreak of the Civil War, however, led him to return to America where he enlisted in the army in time to participate in the bat- tle of Blackburn's Ford. He was also en- gaged in the battles of First Bull Run, Port Royal, Secessionville on James Island, Sec- ond Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and many minor en- gagements. In the single battle of Secession- ville on James Island his regiment. The Sev- enty-ninth Highlanders of New York, lost 110 out of 484 men. In this battle he acted as aide to General Isaac I. Stevens who officially reported that he "was in all parts of the field, carrying my orders and bringing me informa- tion to the great exposure of his life." In 1863 he resumed his medical studies in the newly organized Bellevue Medical College and graduated the valedictorian of his class. After graduation he married Mary Hartwell Chitteijden, daughter of S. B. Chittenden, a New York merchant, and then spent two years of study in Paris, Vienna and Edinburgh. These years of foreign study gave him a mas- tery of medicine from the world viewpoint. Returning to America he settled in New York in 1866 and taught physiology at the Long Island Hospital Medical College in Brooklyn. In 1870-71, on an invitation extended by Oli- ver Wendell Holmes, he lectured on physiol- ogy at the Harvard Medical School. Bow- ditch returned to Boston about this time and a hesitancy on the part of the Harvard au- thorities regarding the appointment to the chair of physiology led Dr. Lusk to make an arrangement to become the associate of For- dyce Barker (q.v.), then a leading obstetrician in New York, and to accept the chair of Ob-