The New International Encyclopædia/Blumer, George Alder

BLUM'ER, (1851&mdash;). An Anglo-American physician, born in Sunderland, England. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduated in 1879 at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1879-80 was resident physician at the German Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. From 1880 to 1886 he was assistant physician at the Utica State Hospital, of which he was superintendent in 1886-89. In 1889 he was appointed superintendent of the Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence, R. I. He also became an associate editor of the American Journal of Insanity.