Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-28
PORTRAITS OF THE PRESIDENTS PHYSICIANS


Our readers will glance with pleasure at the portraits and brief biographies which we here present Of some of the distinguished surgeons and physicians who are now and have for some time been in anxious and constant atteniaLcs. on the wounded President. Without pausing to particularize minutely the peculiar qualifications of these able gentlemen individually, 1t Is with the most profound qualification that We feel an assurance that their devotion, skill and very great experience will be crowned with the most triumphant sue cess, and that ere long their illustrious patient will be restored to the nation in the enjoyment of perfect health and strength once more.
 Dr. Willard Bliss, who is in charge of this most important Of eases, was born at Auburn, \. V, m lS-j. He graduated at the Medical College, Cleveland, in lS4G; and after practiciug at Iona and Grand Rapids, Michigan, he removed to Detroit shortly before the breaking ont of the rebellion. When LustiItics com menced. he was c0mmi stoned Surgeon Of the Ihird Michigan Volunteers. and was in charge of the division field hos pitals at Bull Run. Subsequently, some of the m9 important medical trusts Of he campaign were handed over to his kill and pa -iotsm, both O. wh th he evinced in a marked degree, and some times under the most trying circum- stances, having frequently had charge Of from twelve to fifteen thousand patients On the organization of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, he was appointed one of it's members, and was afterwards elected its csident Subsequently, the Medical Soc of the District placed itself in OpI UiOu to him, because, as was alleged, was the discOvtFc- and abbettOr of the famous cure for cancer, "lmndurangO," which the Society thought proper tc denOunce as a quack remedy. Dr. B.iss, who resides in Washington, was the first physician to arrive at the side of the wounded President. On pereeiving how desperate the case, he at once desired that Surgeon-General Barnes and Sur Ceons Joseph J. Woodward and Bosil Norris of the army should be summoned also. Drs., Hamilton of New York, Ag- new of Philadelphia and Reybum of Washington, were called in subsequently, dlO dAl llAuot W e ilsiFf Just huAlNAAf NtlNt Dr. Norris, compose the distinguished medical staff now on duty at the White 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 illustrious martyrs last moments.
 Brevet Colonel Joseph Janvier Woodward, Surgeon United States Army, was born in Philadelphia in 1882. and graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1853. He prac- ticed medicine in his native city until 1881, when he was appointed assistant sur geon in the regular army. having pre- viously distinguished himself in his pro- fession, and as an author and the iH- ventOr of an instrument for determining with mathematical accuracy the myoptic and other conditions of the eye. In 1866 he was selected to edit the Surgical and Medical History of the Rebellion, on which work he is still engaged. In 1868 he was promoted tO the rank of Captain, and in 1876 to the grade of Surgeon, with the rank of Major He is 6 mem-