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adopted. In 1817 a medical school was added to the Transylvania University, and he was elected to the chairs of anatomy and surgery. Dr. Dudley condemned blood- Jetting, taking advanced ground in the mat- ter. His skill with the knife soon gatned him a national reputation and his success in lithotomy was so great that in England he was declared to be **the lithotomist of the nineteenth century." He operated for stone in the bladder two hundred and twenty-five times and lost only six patients. Believing that Asiatic cholera was a water-borne dis- ease, during the first great epidemic in this country (1832) he and his family drank cistern instead of well water, and were the only ones in Lexington to escape the dis- ease. He contributed valuable essays to the 'Transylvania Journal of Medicine.*' He was married, in 182 1, to a daughter of Major Peyton Short. He died in Lexington, Ken- tucky, June 20, 1870.

Scott, Winfield, was born near Peters- burg, Virginia, June 13, 1786, son of Wil- liam and Ann Mason Scott, and grandson of a Scotch soldier, who engaged in the battle of Culloden, where he lost a brother and fled to America, settling in the neigh- borhood of Petersburg, where he practiced law. Winfield, after attending a high school in Richmond, matriculated at the College of William and Mary, and after a two years* course took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in Richmond, in 1806, removed to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1S07, where he was made captain of light artillery in the United States army, and was ordered to New Orleans in 1808, where Gen. Wilkinson, after being unsuccessful in winning the youthful officer over to the viA-.n

questionable scheme of Burr, caused his court-martial and suspension for twelve months. Captain Scott obtained rcmis- sance of sentence after three months, ,and was complimented by a public din- aier. June 18, 1812, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the Second Artillery, and ordered to the Niagara frontier; and at Queenstown Heights, October 13, 1812, he v*ras taken prisoner and exchanged after a lew months. He was promoted brigadier- general, March 9, 1814: established a camp of instruction at Buffalo, July 3, 1814, trans- ferred his brigade to British soil, and on July 5 directed the battle of Chippewa, win- liing a signal victory, as he did at Lundy's Lane, July 25, where he had two horses shot under him, was badly wounded and finally gained the field, capturing Gen. Rial- land, several other officers, and inflicting a loss of eight hundred and seventy-eight men to the British. These, the only victories on Canada soil, gained for him the rank of major-general. He removed to Buffalo, New York, and on his partial recovery was transferred to Philadelphia- He visited Europe in 1815, after declining the position of secretary of war in President Madison's cabinet, held temporarily by James Mon- roe. On his return he was given command of the Atlantic seaboard, with headquarters in New York, and made his home at Eliza- beth, New Jersey. He was married, in ^larch, 1817, to Maria, daughter of John Mayo, of Richmond, \'irginia. He took part in the Seminole war in Florida, and agrainst the Creek Indians, 1836-37. Criti- cisms of his conduct of the campaign caused his recall in 1837, but a court of inquiry found no cause for the same, and in 1838 he effected the peaceful transfer of the

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