Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-06

Our readers will glance with pleasure at
the portraits and brief biographies which we
her- crescent of some of the distinguished
surgeons and physicians who are now and
have been for some time in anxious and con
slant attendance on the wounded President.
Without pausing TO partcularize minutely
the peculiar qualifications of these gentle
men individually, it is with the most pro
found qualification that we feel an assurance
that their devotion, skill and very great eX-
perience viii be crowned with the most tri-
umphant success, and that ere long
their ilustrlOus patient will be re-
stored to the nation IL the enjoy
ment of perfect health and strength once
more.
Dr. Willard Bliss, who is in charge of this
most important of cases, was born at Au-
brrn, n. Y, in 1925 He graduated at the
Medical College, Cleveland, III 1876; and af-
ter practiciDg at Iona and Grand Rapids, i'll
Michigan, he removed to Detroit shortly be-
fore the breaking out of the rebellion.
When h0stilities commenced, he was COM
missioned surgeon of the Third Michigan
Volunteers, and was in charge Of the division
tield hospital at Bull Ron. Subsequently
some of the most important medical trusts
of the campaign were handed over to his
skill and patriotism, both of which he
eyinced in a marked degree, and sometimes
u der the most trying circumst ;es, having
at times had charge of from twelve to fif-
teen thousand patients. On the organiAa-
ton of the board of health of the District
of Columbia he was appointed one of its
members, and was afterward elected its pres
dent. Subsequently, the medical society OF
the Dist let placed itself in opposition to him,
h1.o oil ba "a
coyerer and abettor of the famous cure for
cancer, "Cdndr aoS So" which The society
thought prope~ 10 de lource as quack med
icine. Dr. 5 IS. who resides in Washing
ton, was The iS5y physician to arrive at the
side o ,he wounded Pre3ide2t. On pre-
ceiviEg how desperate the case, he at once
desired that Surgtoa-Geaeral Barnes aud
Surseors Joseph J. Woodward and Basil
Norris o. the Army should be instantly
ST rmmoned also. u $. Hamilton, of New
York, Agnew, Of Philadelphia, and Rey-
bum, o. Washington, were called in sub
sequently, and all those we have just
named. save DR.. No; is, compose the dis
tirguished medical staf now on duty at the
Whi,e House Dr. Bliss, Surgeon-General
Barnes and DR.. Norris, were among the
physicians summoned to the bedside of
Abraham Lincoln, and were witnesses of
the illuot-ious martyrs last moments.
, BIevet Lie0,enaut-C Colonel Joseph Janviel
Woodward, surgeon United States Army,
was born IN Philadelphia in 1892, and
graduated from the University of Pennsyl-
vtnia i'll 1853. He practiced medicine III
his native city until 1861, when he was ap
pointed assi5tant-surge0n in the regular
army, having previously distinguished him.
self il ais profession, and as an author. and
the inyer. or of an instrument for determin
ing, with mathematical accuracy, the myop-
tic or other con 1itions of the eye In 1866,
he was selected to edit the Surgical and
Medil al History of the Rebellion, on which
work he is stll engaged In 1868. he was
promoted to the rank of captain, and il
1876 to the grade of surgeon, with the ran K
of major He is q member of the American
Medical Association, and of the American
Academy of Science.
! Brevet Maior-General Joseph X. Barnes,
surgeon-general United States Army, was
born in Philadelphia, in 1917 and graduated
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1888.
In 1910, he was appointed Ia the army, and
served in the Florlda-indian troubles under
General Harvey. During the Mexican wal
he was chief medical officer of the cavalry
brigade, and was III almost every action on
SCOTS and TaylOr's lines. lie was one OF the
first medical officers ordered East from Ore
gOn in 1861, at the outbreak of the war,
when he was placed on special duty as as
sistant in the GIlrgeon-generafs office. On
the organization of grades of medical H.
spection, he was promoted to lieutenant
colonel, and subsequently to medical IN
encouragement. with the rank of colonel.
Soon afterward he became acting surgeon
general, and in 1864, was appointed surgeon
,>f ,,If,s
which position he still holds.
! DR. Robert Reyburn was born in Scot
land, in 1888, and came TO the United
States when quite young. In 1856, he
graduated at the Philadelphia Medical Col
lege, and practiced his profession in that
city until 1862, when he e-entered the Union
army as medical officer of volunteers
having the same year settled in Washington,
where he still resides. In 1857 he was ap-
pointed to the regular Army: and has since
become a member of the American Medical
Association and president of the Wash
ington Medical Society. He was surgeon
in-cbief of the Freedmen's Bureau; was
professor of surgery and dean Of the faculty
Of the medical school of Georgetown Col
| lege. District of Columbia. He is also a
distinguished writer on medical subjects.
! DR. Frank Hastings Hamilton was born in
Vermont. in 1913, and graduated at the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania in 1888. In 1862,
after having practiced in Auburn, n. Y, he
removed to New York City, where he
speedily obtained large patronage. During
the war he was medical inspector in the
army, and has long gained the reputation of
being one of the first surgeons IN this coun-
try. He is the author OF several standard
works pertaining to his profession, and the
inventor of a number of delicate and CON-
plex instruments. now regarded as indis-
pensible in the practice of surgery.
DIR. d. HayesA gnew was born in Penn
sylvania in 1917, and was educated at Jeffer-
son College and the University of Pennsyl-