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Rh his outspoken loyalty to the national government alienated the feelings of his people, and he was forced to go to the north, leaving his family. In the summer of 1863, after the occupation of the city by the Union forces. Dr. Duncan returned to New Orleans and engaged in secular occupations, endeavoring, to the utmost of his ability, to pro- mote the return of Louisiana to the Union. Though sufteririg from consumption, which resulted fatally, he labored, with pen and voice, for this result, and before his death had the satisfaction of seeing its accomplishment. Columbia gave him the degree of D. D. in 1857. Among his works are " Life of John the Baptist," based on a monograph by Von Rohden (New York, 185^) ; " History of the Bap- tists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era " (1857) ; and '' The Tears of Jesus " (1859).

DUNCAN, William Stevens, physician, b. in Brownsville, Fayette co.. Pa., 24 May, 1834. He studied at Mount Union college, Ohio, was gradu- ated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1858, and settled in Browns- ville. He served as a volunteer surgeon in the na- tional army at the battle of Gettysburg and was captured, but soon escaped. Di'. Duncan has ac- complished numerous difficult sui'gical operations, including herniotomy nine times and trephining seven times. Besides contributions to journals, he has published " Medical Delusions "' (1869) and " Phvsiologv of Death " (1876).

DUNDAS, Francis, British soldier, b. in Eng- land about 1750; d. in January, 1824. He entered tiie British army as ensign in the 1st guards in April, 1775. and served through the Revolutionary war. In January, 1778, he became captain, and participated in the battles of Brandywine, Ger- mantown, Monmouth, and the reduction of the forts on the Delaware. He joined Lord Cornwallis in 1780 and was made lieutenant-colonel. At Guil- ford and Yorktown he commanded the advance guard. He served in Martinique in 1794, and was governor of the Cape of Good Hope in 1796-1803. In 1812 he was made a general in the army.

DUNDAS, James, banker, b. in Alexandria, Va.. in 1788 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 4 July, 1865. He early settled in Philadelpliia, where he became a banker, and was president of the Pennsylvania bank. Mr. Dundas was prominent in many local enterprises, and at the time of his death was presi- dent of the Pennsylvania horticultural society.

DUNGLISON, Robley, physician, b. in Kes- wick, England, 4 Jan., 1798; d. in'Philadelphia, Pa.. 1 A[u-i!, 18(19. He received tlie degree of M. D. in Lon- don in 1819, and from the University of Erlangen in 1823, settled in London, and began the practice of his profession, and also edited the London " Medi- cal Repository " and the " Medical Intelligencer " ; l)ut in 1824, at the invitation of Thomas Jefferson, he came to the United States, and from that year till 1833 was professor of medicine in the University of Virginia. He then accepted tlie professorshija of materia medica and therapeutics in the Univer- sity of Maryland, and in 1836 that of the institutes of medicine in Jefferson medical college, Phila- delphia, where he remained for more than thirty years, during a large portion of which time he was dean of the faculty; and the extraordinary success of this institution was largely due to the attractive course of lectures and to the remarkable tact and practical sagacity with which he admin- istered its affairs. He was a close student of phi- lology and general literature, and enjoyed a high reputation for benevolence, which was especially exercised in giving time and services to the Phila- delphia institution for the blind. Much of his attention was directed in later years to this cause, and he was very successful in promoting the print- ing of books in raised letters for the use of the blind. Dr. Dunglison was president of the Musical fund society of Philadelphia, vice-president of the Pennsylvania institution for the blind and of the American philosophical society, and a member of many literary and scientific societies. In 1825 he re- ceiv'ed the degree of LL. D. from Yale. He trans- lated and edited a large number of foreign works, including Magendie's " Formulary," the " Cyclopae- dia of Practical Medicine " of Drs". Forbes, Tweedie, and Conelly, and also edited many originally pub- lished in the United States. His published works, which have sold very largely, comprise "Commen- taries dn Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels in Children " (London, 1824) ; " Introduction to the Study of Grecian and Roman Geography," the Grecian by George Long, Esq., the Roman by himself (Charlottesville, 1829) ; " Human Physi- ology " (Philadelphia, 1832) ; " Dictionary of Medi- cal Science and Literature " (Boston, 1833 ; 15th ed., 1858) ; " Elements of Hygiene " (Philadelphia, 1835; 2d ed., entitled "Human Health," 1844); "General Therapeutics" (1836; 6th ed., 1857); " The Medical Student, or Aids to the Study of Medicine" (Philadelphia, 1837); "New Remedies" (1839); and "The Practice of Medicine" (1842). — His son, Richard James, physician, b. in Bal- timore, ftld., 13 Nov., 1834, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1852, and at Jeffer- son medical college in 1856, settled in Philadelphia, and entered on an extensive practice. During the civil war he was acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. army, and on duty in various military hospitals in Philadelphia. He was at one time physician to the Albion society, and attending physician to the Pennsylvania institution for the instruction of the blind, as also to the Burd orphan asylum. He is a member of many medical societies in the United States and Europe, and has contributed valuable papers to the " North American Medico-Chirur- gical Review," among which may be mentioned "Observations on the Deaf and Dumb" (1858) and " Statistics of Insanity in the United States " (1860), both of which appeared in pamphlet-form. He wrote "Reflections on Exanthematic Typhus" in 1861, a series of articles on the " Public Medical Libraries of Philadelphia " for the Philadelphia " Medical Times " in 1872, and " Letters on Medical Centennial Affairs " for the " New York Medical Record " in 1876. He has edited his father's " His- tory of jMedicine " (1872) ; the " Medical Dictionary " (1874); and translated from the French Guersaut's " Surgical Diseases of Children " (1873).

DUNHAM, Carroll, physician, b. in New York city. 29 Oct., 1828 ; d. in Irvington-on-IIudson, N. Y., 18 Feb., 1877. He was graduated at Colum- bia in 1847, and af the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, in 1850 : and in 1852 began practice in Brooklyn. In 1858 he removed to New- burgh, and in 1863 to Irvington. He was president of the American institute of homoeopathy, and for many years dean of the New York homoeopathic medical college. For a year prior to the world's homoeopathic convention held in Philadelphia, Pa., he was actively engaged in its behalf, and subse- quently compiled the proceedings for publication. He has contributed to periodicals, and published " Homoeopathy the Science of Therapeutics " (1877) and "Lectures on Materia Medica" (1879).

DUNHAM, William Russell, physician, b. in Chesterfield, Cheshire co., N. II., 15 Dec, 1833. He studied at Berkshire medical college, Massachusetts, and at Harvard university, being graduated at the