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# American Medical Biographies/Huntington, Elisha

​Huntington, Elisha (1796–1865).
Elisha Huntington, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts, lieutenant-governor of the state, and author of a memoir of the eminent Dr. Elisha Bartlett (q. v.) (1856), was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, April 9, 1796. He was the son of the Rev. Asahel Huntington, minister of that town for nearly twenty-five years, and of his wife, a daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord of Pomfret, Connecticut. Entering Dartmouth College at fifteen, he graduated in 1815 and studied medicine with Dr. Bradstreet of Newburyport, later attending the Yale Medical School and getting his M. D. there in 1823. He settled in Lowell the following year and enjoyed a large practice, soon being drawn into the public service. While Lowell was yet a town, Dr. Huntington served on the board of selectmen and the school committee. After being three times elected an alderman, he filled the office of mayor in 1839, and was re-elected seven times. Having declined to be again a candidate, the "great panic" of 1859 led the citizens to nominate him unanimously, such confidence had they in his ability to manage the city in a time of stress. For one year, 1853, he was lieutenant-governor of the state under Governor Clifford; for two years president of the Midlesex North District Medical Society, and in 1855–57 he presided over the Massachusetts Medical Society.
One of his last acts was to attend the fiftieth anniversary of his class at Dartmouth, even though in impaired health. He died at home, December 13, 1865.
# American Medical Biographies/Hunt, William

​Hunt, William (1825–1896).
The son of Uriah and Elizabeth Shreve Hunt, he was born September 26, 1825, at 106 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, a descendant of a long line of Quakers, who came over here about 1680. He went, as a lad, to a Friends' School, then began to study medicine under Dr. George B. Wood (q. v.), and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1849. He married, in 1856, Rebecca T., daughter of Richard Price, and had three children, William, George and Margaret.
Dr. Hunt was elected to the surgical staff of the Episcopal Hospital in 1853, and served here and at the Wills Hospital, until he was ​appointed attending surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1863, finishing his term after a service of thirty years, having inaugurated in 1870 the plan of a six months continuous service. He was an incorporator of the Microscopical and Biological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and he helped to form the "Biological Club" and the "Surgical Club," where members met to display specimens and partake, at first, of such refreshments as crackers, cheese and ale, and later, regular dinners. He wrote a good deal, and was for many years on the staff of the Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, and with Dr. T. G. Morton, compiled a "History of Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital." The "Pennsylvania Hospital Reports" were edited by him and Dr. J. M. DaCosta, and he did the same for Holmes's "System of Surgery" (the American edition), besides contributing to the "International Encyclopedia of Surgery."
But the writing, the operating and the pleasant entertaining of friends came to an end when he was severely injured by being run over, in 1887, and although he worked at intervals, the results of the accident ended in his death on April 17, 1896, at his home in Philadelphia.
Among his appointments may be noted: resident physician, Pennsylvania Hospital; demonstrator of anatomy, University of Pennsylvania; assistant surgeon, United States Army; Surgeon to the Orthopedic Hospital; fellow of the College of Physicians; president, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery; honorary fellow, American Surgical Association.
Among his writings are to be mentioned: "Clinical Notes and Reflections"; "Diabetic Gangrene"; "Ossification of the Crystalline Lens"; "The History of Toxemia"; "Unusual Surgical Cases"; "Traumatic Rupture of the Urethra"; "Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital, being an Epitome of the Hospital since 1756," Philadelphia, 1880.
# American Medical Biographies/Hurd, Anson

​Hurd, Anson (1824–1910).
Anson Hurd, surgeon in the Civil War, was born in Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio (the Western Reserve of Connecticut), December 27, 1824, of Revolutionary ancestry, the names Hurd, Brainard and Brooks, being prominent in New England history. He was one of fourteen children, educated at Twinsburg Academy and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he received his Academic degree in 1849.
His medical studies were under Dr. William Blackstone of Athens, Ohio. In 1852 he received his M. D. from Starling Medical College, and began practice in Oxford, Indiana, whence he was sent for several terms as member of the State Legislature and was active in early public affairs. He contracted tuberculosis and in 1856, after consulting the leading ​diagnosticians in New York, he look a pony, blanket and lariat and spent a year a pioneer in outdoor life, sleeping on the ground, under the stars, and traveling over the Staked Plains of Texas.
Returning to Indiana he was commissioned surgeon in the fourteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
In 1865 he settled in Findlay, where he lived throughout his remaining years.
Hurd received honorary degrees from the Ohio Medical College, the Columbus Medical College and the Kentucky School of Medicine. His papers included: "Plaster of Paris in
Treatment of Fractures," 1872; "The Identity of Diphtheria and Membranous Croup," 1873; "Extra-uterine Pregnancy with Report of Cases," 1878; "Puerperal Eclampsia with Cases," 1873, of which the association ordered 1,200 extra copies printed for its members; "Suturing the Severed Tendo Achillis in Open Wound," 1875, the fourth case reported at that time. These were some of his most valuable contributions to medical literature.
Dr. Hurd married, in 1853, Amanda Cell. Of their three children, one, Huldah, survived him.
Dr. Hurd was a man of genial disposition, and while brusque in manner, this peculiarity really concealed his philanthropy.
# American Medical Biographies/Huntington, David Low

​Huntington, David Low (1834–1899).
David Low Huntington, army surgeon, graduated in arts at Yale (1855), in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1857. In 1862 he entered the regular army as assistant surgeon and served mostly in the West. He was medical officer on the staff of Gen. Grant, medical director of the army of the Tennessee, and accompanied Sherman on his famous march to the sea. Huntington was present in many battles of the war and rendered valuable service at Champion Hills, Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dallas and Kenesaw Mountain. After the war he was stationed at different army posts east and west, and from 1875 to 1880 was surgeon in charge of the Soldiers' Home at Washington, from 1880 to 1887, working in the surgeon-general's office. After the death of Otis, Huntington completed the remaining volumes of the well known "Medical and Surgical History of the War." The last volume was published in 1883. During the last years of his military service, Huntington was in charge of the Army Medical Museum and Library. After his retirement in 1898 he travelled in Europe for his health, when death suddenly overtook him at Rome, December 20, 1899.
# American Medical Biographies/Hunt, John Gibbons

​Hunt, John Gibbons (1826–1893).
John Gibbons Hunt, physician and microscopist, was born at Darby, Pennsylvania, July 26, 1826, the son of Abram Gibbons Hunt, a farmer, and Massey Jones. He graduated M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in ​1850 with a thesis on "Histology of Muscular Tissue." In 1868 he became a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences; in 1884 a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; he was professor of histology and microscopy in the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, 1872–1890. During the Civil War he was acting assistant surgeon U. S. Army in charge of Summit House Hospital, Philadelphia.
Except for a few articles in the Cincinnati Medical News and other journals he wrote little. He was associated with Joseph Zentmayer, our early great manufacturer of microscopic appliances. Professor Harshberger ("Botanists of Philadelphia," page 257) says of Hunt: "As a manipulator of the microscope and preparer of objects he was unsurpassed, but he looked on his skill as only the means to the end—a knowledge of the objects themselves. Having made himself familiar with animal histology, he very early turned his attention to the anatomy of plants of which he acquired an intimate acquaintance. He was one of the very first to apply to plants the methods of staining that were in use for animal tissues, having begun before 1850." He began double staining vegetal tissues in 1853 by methods afterwards published by Dr. Beatty, [George Dobbin Beatty (q. v.)] of Baltimore, whose articles were widely quoted in the journals of this country and Europe."
He married Anna Maria White, daughter of Joseph White of Philadelphia in 1851. They had three daughters who were practising physicians.
Hunt was founder of the Biological and Microscopical Sections of the Academy of Natural Sciences; he was Conservator, 1872 to 1880.
Dr. Harshberger further says of him that "although master of the most refined technique, he never received a large share of popular recognition on account of his native modesty and reserve."
Dr. Hunt died April 29, 1893, at Landsdowne, Pennsylvania.
# American Medical Biographies/Hupp, John Cox

​Hupp, John Cox (1819–1908).
John Cox Hupp, skilled physician and public servant of unusual breadth of view and numerous interests, was born in Donegal, Washington County, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1819, son of John and Ann Cox Hupp. His grandfather was John Hupp, pioneer, who was killed while defending Miller's Block-House in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on Easter Sunday, 1782. His great grandfather was Colonel Isaac Cox, whose activities in the Revolutionary War are well known in western Pennsylvania.
Young Hupp was educated at West Alexander Academy and at Washington College, graduating in 1844; he studied medicine with F. J. LeMoyne and graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1847, settling to practise in Wheeling, West Virginia, which remained his home the rest of his life. He was a founder of the medical society of the state of West Virginia; in 1870 he brought chloral hydrate to the notice of the physicians of Wheeling. His interest in education led him to make a successful effort to bring free-school privileges to the negro children of Wheeling.
He witnessed the cremation of Baron de Palm at Washington, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1876.
His writings include: "Placenta Praevia" (1863); "Vaccination and Its Protecting Powers" (1870); "Chloral in Puerperal Insanity" (1870; "Ruptured Uterus" (1874); "Encephaloid Abdominal Tumor" (1875). He wrote a "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Thoburn, M. D.," at the request of the physicians of Wheeling, in 1865; in 1870 he offered a memorial before the West Virginia Legislature, on the establishment of the office of the state geologist, and in 1877 a memorial on the establishment of a state board of health.
Dr. Hupp was physician to the Ohio County Almshouse in 1850, and in 1863 was appointed physician to the prisoners of the United States District Court; in 1864 he was physician and secretary to the Wheeling Board of Health; in 1869 he served as secretary of the Section on Practice of Medicine and Obstetrics of the American Medical Association, and was state vaccine commissioner, from the formation of the Commonwealth until 1883.
In 1853 he married Carolene Louisa, daughter of A. S. Todd (q. v.). Dr. Frank LeMoyne Hupp, eminent physician of Wheeling, was their son.
Dr. Hupp died November 19, 1908, of senile myocarditis.
# American Medical Biographies/Hunt, Henry Hastings

​Hunt, Henry Hastings (1842–1894).
This charming and attractive man was born in Gorham, Maine, July 7, 1842, fitted for college at the Gorham Academy, and graduated from Bowdoin with high honors in 1862. He immediately enlisted as hospital steward in the Fifth Battery of Light Artillery of Maine, and served through the war.
He afterwards studied medicine at the Portland School for Medical Instruction, graduating at the Medical School of Maine in 1867. He then took post-graduate courses at Philadelphia and practised at Gorham until 1882, then finding the wear and tear of country practice too hard he moved to Portland, where he rapidly obtained a choice of clientage.
In 1884 he was chosen to the chair of physiology in the Medical School of Maine, but resigned in 1891, owing to poor health. He was a member of the Maine Medical Association, of the American Medical Association, and a visiting physician to the Maine General Hospital for many years.
In 1887 he married Miss Gertrude Jewell, of Buffalo.
Henry Hunt was a type of the best class of physician, studious, tireless, patient. His opinion was always prized. As a medical writer, Dr. Hunt showed great mastery of his subject, together with taste and skill in authorship, so that it was a matter of regret that he had not time oftener to prove his capabilities in that direction. Perhaps the best of his papers was one on "Diphtheria" (1886).
For several years before his death, Henry Hunt knew that he was a victim of an incurable disease due to an injury of the spinal cord. His frequent sufferings, to which he jokingly referred as "just old fashioned rheumatism," were severe, but he kept at his work till about three months before his death.
He died November 30, 1894, much lamented.
# American Medical Biographies/Hunt, Thomas

​Hunt, Thomas (1808–1867).
Thomas Hunt was born in Charleston, South Carolina, May 18, 1808, and died in New Orleans, March 20, 1867. Of good lineage, his early education was under the accomplished scholar Bishop England, his studies being directed to law, but his readings embraced all branches of literature and science. His love of the classics adhered to him through life and his proficiency in Greek was profound. Selecting medicine as his profession, he received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1829, then went to Paris, but was soon recalled by the death of his father and entered at once into practice. At the age of twenty-three he lectured on anatomy and operative surgery and taught practical anatomy. When the Amelia was wrecked off Folly Island in 1832 he distinguished himself with Dr. Warren Stone (q. v.), a passenger on that vessel, by his treatment and management of the cholera which attacked the unfortunate crew and voyagers.
In 1833 he removed to New Orleans, again to face cholera and to render himself prominent in the warfare against this disease. He was soon elected surgeon to the Charity Hospital, but held the office for a short while as it interfered with larger plans. He entered actively into the enterprise of establishing the Medical College in Louisiana. The introductory lecture on anatomy he delivered in 1834 and the existence and growth of the university were largely due to Hunt. He held the chairs of anatomy and physiology, pathological anatomy and practice, physiology and pathology and special pathology; was dean of the faculty and at the time of his death president of the University of Louisiana, also surgeon to the Marine Hospital, New Orleans.
He wrote a good deal on dermatology, his pamphlets going through three editions; these included: "Practical Observations on Certain Diseases of the Skin generally pronounced Incurable," London, 1847; "Memoir of the Medicinal Uses of Arsenic," 1849.
The professional life of Dr. Hunt extended over thirty-eight years, thirty-four of which were spent in New Orleans.
# American Medical Biographies/Hunter, William

​Hunter, William (1729–1777).
William Hunter was born in 1729 in Scotland and educated under the elder Monro, at Edinburgh, afterwards studying with great assiduity, both at Edinburgh and Leyden.
He came to Rhode Island about 1752, gave lectures at Newport, on anatomy, on the history of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, during the years 1754–56, these being among the first lectures given on science in New England. He was soon appointed by the colony of Rhode Island, surgeon to the troops sent by them to Canada, and afterwards he returned to Newport. He married the daughter of Godfrey Malbone.
Independent of his lectures, his literary contributions in behalf of his profession were principally letters addressed to his London namesakes. He was a most eminently successful practitioner, as well as operator and obstetrician.
He was a very handsome man, his manners courtly and amiable, his opinions liberal. His medical library was the largest in New England at his day, and contained most of the standard Greek and Latin authors of antiquity, as well as the modern works of his own time. The latter were mostly dispersed by the accidents of the Revolutionary War; what remained of the former were distributed to individuals and medical institutions by his only son, the Hon. William Hunter.
According to the New York Medical Repository, his manuscript lectures were said still to be in existence.
He died at Newport in 1777.
# American Medical Biographies/Hunt, Harriot Kezia

​Hunt, Harriot Kezia (1805–1875).
Harriot Kezia, the first woman to practise medicine in America, was a Bostonian, pedigreed, born and bred, the daughter of Joab Hunt and Kezia Wentworth. She was born in 1805. When her father died in 1827 his estate was found to be encumbered and self-support became necessary. A private school started by Miss Hunt and her sister brought money but she felt it was not her vocation. The care of her sister during a protracted illness drew her attention to medicine; she procured medical books and pursued ​investigations with the conviction that much of the ordinary practice was blind and merely experimental.
In 1833 she entered the family of a Dr. and Mrs. Mott. The doctor left the care of most female patients to his wife; this care Miss Hunt shared, and by the opportunity thus afforded, supplemented theoretical knowledge by clinical observation. In 1835 she opened a consulting-room and assumed the responsibility of practising without a medical diploma— reprehensible, but a course justified by subsequent events, for when in 1847 Miss Hunt requested permission to attend lectures at the Harvard Medical School—stating "that after twelve years' practice which had become extensive, it would be evident to them that the request must proceed from no want of patronage, but simply from a desire for such scientific knowledge as could be imparted by their professors"—her request was promptly refused. After the graduation of Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva in 1849, "Miss Hunt thought the times might be more favorable and in 1850 repeated her application at Harvard. In mobile America great changes of sentiment can be effected in three years— five out of the seven members of the faculty voted that Miss Hunt be admitted to the lectures on the usual terms. But, on the eve of success, Miss Hunt's cause was shipwrecked by collision and entanglement with that of another of those unenfranchised to the privileges of learning. At the beginning of the session two colored men had appeared among the students and created by their presence intense dissatisfaction. When, as if to crown this outrage it was announced that a woman was also about to be admitted, the students felt their cup of humiliation was full and in indignation boiled over in a general meeting. The compliant faculty bowed their heads to the storm, and to avoid the obloquy of rejecting under pressure a perfectly reasonable request, advised the female student to withdraw her petition. This she did, and the majesty of Harvard, already endangered by the presence of the negro, was saved from the further peril of the woman. Miss Hunt returned to her private medical practice which, though unsanctioned by law and condemned by learning, steadily increased and with such success that she became widely known."
In 1853 the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia gave her the honorable M. D. In 1856 she wrote "Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years' Social including Twenty Years' Professional Life." She died in Boston, January 2, 1875.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert (1)

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert, s. John, of Bristol, arm. Balliol Coll., matric. 6 May, 1743, aged 17; B.A. 20 Jan., 1746-7.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert (3)

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert, 2s. Joseph, of Dublin, Ireland, arm. University Coll., matric. 5 Dec., 1822, aged 18; B.A. 1836.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert Francis

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert Francis, 3s. Thomas, of Hackney, Middlesex, arm. Oriel Coll., matric. 27 March, 1827, aged 18; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, perp. curate Ampfield, Hants, 1841-53, and of Baldersby, Yorks, 1858-63, vicar of Rownhams, Hants, 1863, preb. of Salisbury 1870, until his death 8 Oct., 1888.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert Henry

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert Henry, 1s. Robert, of Manchester, gent. Queen's Coll., matric. 20 Oct., 1873, aged 18; B.Mus. 1876.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert James

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert James, 4s. William, of Worthing, Sussex, arm. Merton Coll., matric. 10 June, 1858, aged 17; postmaster 1858-63, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865, fellow 1867, dean 1868, tutor 1870-5, bursar 1872, sub-warden, assistant-master St. Peter's College, Radley, 1863-6, warden 1879, vicar of Radley 1879, assistant-master Marlborough College 1866-70, vicar of Wolvercot, Oxon, 1875-9.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert (4)

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert, 3s. James, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 1 July, 1841, aged 19; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert Dobie

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert Dobie, o.s. William Dobie, of Glenarbach, co. Lanark, arm. Balliol Coll., matric. 21 June, 1854, aged 18; B.A. 1858, exhibitioner 1854-61, M.A. 1861, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1862. See Foster's Men at the Bar.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert Spedding

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert Spedding, 1s. (John Alex.), of Childwall, near Liverpool, cler. Brasenose Coll., matric. 2 Feb., 1849, aged 18; scholar 1850-3, B.A. 1852, fellow 1855-76, M.A. 1855, dean 1866, lecturer 1870, tutor 1871-5, junior bursar 1871, fellow St. Peter's College, Radley, 1856-66, rector of Mottistone, Isle of Wight, 1875-6, of Stoke Bruerne, Northants, 1876-85, rector of Girton, co. Cambridge, 1886, brother of Matthew Herbert.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert (2)

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert, s. Cuthbert, of Gateshead, co. Durham, cler. All Souls' Coll., matric. 9 Dec., 1774, aged 17; B.A. 1778, lecturer of St. John's, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1790, until his death 9 Nov., 1811.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wilson, Robert Stuart

From volume 4 of the work.
​Wilson, Robert Stuart, 1s. Robert James, of St. Leonard's, Sussex, arm. Trinity Coll., matric. 14 Oct., 1876, aged 18; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1886.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Winder, Thomas (1)

From volume 4 of the work.
​Winder, Thomas, s. John, of Preston, Lancashire, gent. Brasenose Coll., matric. 29 April, 1726, aged 19; B.A. from St. Edmund Hall 1730, vicar of Cockerham, Lancashire, 1737.
# Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Windham, John

From volume 4 of the work.
​Windham, John, s. Francis, of Bampton, Devon, cler. Trinity Coll., matric. 15 Oct., 1722, aged 17; B.A. 1726.