The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-07

one marched through n sick room In a stately
S %onnG and Inc %o StSsr /, skipped Up a pstient,s front n.
a burglar In stockings. One was abrupt, but
Soldly polite, and the other a lion, like Bottom'sin
Y as a sucking dove" DR.. Bcdfords practice.
ms mouse and office were in lower Fifth avcnuo
w wnsr Sn ,s NOW the Macmillan publishing s on otif i}v.
ihhR IN MS city a thousand persons at whose
o1Itn Dr. Bedford presided. lie was a thoronEh
he is an an@sthctic of himself in the continc'
ment Shsmhcr," a fellow practitioner re,
@ @1SrfSd s OF him. Az a medical lecturer he Vas 1.S'
lures he estonishcd his class by saving:
even nt thon now; gentlemen, some adyiGGG better
Eoo,s nefore you answer a call. There must be
IN them-when even entering n sick chamber
nor heavy sole, for your silent football will be-
medicine of itself. Then you must cultivate
your voice to soft, rnelodious accent and your
Whisper to the sick. for 1t Ia n funeral sound.
snluvate tact, for 1t Is tho open sesame to con
Or. Bedford several TIMES performed success.
Iuiiy the nrecarious Cesarcan operation. ms
geons, Who Was bon n rSsS r every y, nytnbls mcdi.
cal body In Europe, VALENTINO Mott; of Quaker
family, no preserved throughout his life, the Vt.
that he was summoned, with an enormous Zoe
as his reward, to extract u tumor, from tho
acme Of his fame he visited tho Paris hospitals
for the first time since he had walked them rs a
student, both faculty and students hailed him
more than Valentine Mott. sr.. when an an@s.
thetic was discovered that Gained the feelings
pain Of the subject. lie lie was the he iirsi $" surgeon O
TO use ether at tho clinic, He was reported to
hay9 said; ~ now need ,Sd no r,ri more to doT1Gly
s sssS. m III n sad even Ss 'h In s snriy li IL fn'nSe:
dtiately after the first decade of this cen.
creased year rf by Year., and aRpSs een%s f;em %PiGi in
his honorcd old age. The highest. priced sur.
Eson, lin in the world; he passed much time in Fiy o
was a great collector of surgical and nnat omical
specimens. A great collection Of these he pro-
destroyed by fire, but his widow, aided by his
son-another great surgeon-succecded in res:
Se1ms o'h nnd s Rifh tbsm tT Tas f TnTi9ss ibs Mo Of
Memorial building.
In 1899 there removed to New, York from
years became a rival OF Mott IA operator and
professor. Willard Parker. His wife. both as
OF New York society, and her receptions were
long features Of the city's social life. For a
time DR.. Parker was under a cloud among his
professional brethren, because he testified as
an expert at the trial Of Charles b. Huntington
In favor of the defence of moral insanity, but he
lived long enough to find his theories accepted.
In 1s45 Parker reorganized Bellevue Hospital.
1t was he who first described, appendicitis as a
sRTssisdl w dtsor gfsc,s.i Pr of ,pn SoI it had ms1or been
He strongly commended that alcohol was nevern
food, but, always q poison that was useful only
Martyr Paine was q famous physician and
author on the practice Of medicine. and was
S Ssfaits Medical Ttsh H coiies snd Be. + IIfra IN the P Eat,
newed the medical fame Of his family, for he
Of a wealthy, merchant, named Joel Post, who
bought and laid out the estate adjacent to
specially Of another New York. doctor. John
and 1851. was trsnShlt!s. 't and later SssT that mys,
fari nuQ fiGnaC co pf thu lilnnru ffrct nrvlnttal hy-
name; SWEET doubted II it could be cured. and
OF it. One Of his Contemporaries was Isaac f.
Taylor, who succeeded DR.. Bedford as n fash
ionsble obstetrician, and died in 1899. seven
him q banquet in conmemoration of his literary
contributions to their profession and his success
lege. DR.. Taylor had a varied career. During
ths twenties he was suspended from Rutgers
iaeed erot ssssgsG in a the % %ct Of sII pIsHins ey bili ftrais.
After graduation he began the study OF law.
but abandoning it. took up medicine; and re-
the daughter of a wealthy merchant, he was
induced BY the latter to enter business with
as a physician. He it was who really invented
hypodermic. injections.
former n1 !e dsy rs! must H1 sf Se sd MsT the hef aam sars ef.Joh on
Murray Carnochan and James Rushmore
F wSodi to Thu the d5ss nsmsa T Sos lsGs o ssn1 Ma SdF;
eonnsess sia w IL lssfSs ss t and ffais instiflH.'f fsi.
their difficult, surgical operations. Carnochan
became Health Officer of the Port in 1869. but
the large fees he received were not compensa-
ton for the pecuniary sacrifice the office in
volved. He was slow. but sure, and he loved
creature comforts. He handled the dinner
was small need of chloroform for a patient when
ever Carnochan performed an operation. for his
ferer seemed to hypnotize him. Probably Car
nochan might have been pronounced by the fair
sex of his day as the handsomest doctor OF the
time. Dr.. W oods great specially was in au.
topsies. He also was given TO collecting medi-
cal specimens. and in Bellevue Medical College
the Wood Museum is Of itself a monument 10
his fame. He was the author and promoter OF
the statute which provided that the unclaimed
come subjects for dissection. He iobbied for it
at Albany. but so vehement was the opposition
that his bill was passed by only one minority.
William H. Van Buren,, who long acted rs as
sistant surgeon at the clinics presided over by
inspirations and methods and in time became
on his own account a famous surgeon. With
his beautiful wife, he was PROMINENT in society.
In the forties fourished DR.. Henry Augustus
Dubois, whose great specially was scarlet fever.
He altered the old system OF excluding air and
mosphere of the sick chamber and used ice in
proper measure. His was an old Knicker-
clan OF that epoch was John w. Draper, who
came TO New York from London with an early
iSphthtioh 90 hihis Ii'hi Itiuls ne
did not engage much in private practice, but
spent his time az professor of chemistry in the
general and the medical branch OF tho New
York University; He educated a son to be a
ert Ogden Doremus. DR.. Draper had the
fame OF taking by the daguerreotype process
the first copy Of the human face. Daguerre
had taken landscapes upon metal plates,
but bis process was too slow for the patience Of
II sitter. DIR. Draper invented n new chemical
combination, for washing the plates, which re-
duced the time Of exposure to n minute. He
was also a profound philosopher and a historical
as well as chemical author.
Three Flints have adorned the medical pro-
fession in this city. The first. Austin Flint.
took diseases of the heart for his specially and
became a great writer of medical t~rcatises
which take rank abroad as authority. His son
and successor, who long had "jr.' appended to
his name, gave further fame to the family name
by his learning and skill. and there is now also
another |tjr." Three generations Of New York
Lewis Sayre, for in surgical skill and adaptation
OF remedies to disease he has taken high rank
in his profession. In. early life he was City
Physician-a post involving the sanitary duties
now performed by the Board of Health. The
city suffered a great loss u few years ago in tho
death OF DIR. Cornelius Ray ARnew, brother of
John T., Agnew. DR.: Agnew was Surseon.Gen.
eral of this State in 1858. and during tho civil
war WAS prominent in The Sanitary Commits