The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-07
DIR. M'BURNEY IS
 DEAD AT AGE OF 86
Was A Surgeon For M'Kinley When Martyred President Fell Under ASsaSsin'S
 Bullet

Broolline, Mass, Nov. 7.-Dr. Charles
 McBurney, the New York surgeon | died at the home 4ere of his sister.
 Mrs Mary Schlesfnger, early today 1 He had been in il1-health for several years, during which time he had not | engaged in active practice.
 1 Dr. McBurney had made his home for some time in Stoc41bridge. Last Saturday, on returning from a hunting l trip in Maine, he stopped here to visit
 his sister on a matter of business. Yes 1 terday afternoonl he was taken i'll and | was attended by local physician. Ills heart was found to be seriously affect | ed and he failed to rally, death ensu- ing at 1:15 o'clock tF4s morning He is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
 Alice Riggs, of Stockbridge.
 Announcement of the death was sent
 first to his son-in-law, MT. Riggs, of ] Stockbridge, by whom the news was
 that pr. McBurney had died at his Stockbridge home, Cherry Hill.
 Dir. McBurney, after a practice of nearly 40 years in New York, retired to his country estate here in 1907. Dur ing his residence in Stockbridge, he had been enthusiastic follower of outdoor life and sports. He was president of the Stockbrfdge Golf club and a portion of the clubs course is laid out on the McBurney estate. 4%A. NAC0OII1Sy WdS OOIn dL ENOA- bury, Mass, 69 years ago. He was a graduate of Harvard college and of the College of Physicians and Sur geons, New York. During his profes- sional life he was connected as vis- iting or consulting surgeon with manp New York hospitals including St. Lukes, Bellevue, Roosevelt, Presby terian and St Marcus. For a while he was professor of clinical surgery at the College of Physicians and Sur geons and was a member of numer- ous surgical societies bogh in this country and in Europe.
 When President Mckinley was shot at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901, Dr. McBur- ney was called from ckbridge as surgeon.
 For the past three or four years he had been deeply interested in an en- deavor to purify the Housatonic river.
 pr. McBurney already had acquired a reputation when in 1889 he published an essay on Experience With Opera tive Interference in cases of Disease of the vermiform Appendix. The es- say brought him recognition from the whole world and for many years his colleagues jocularly called him the Father of Appendicitis-' The essay created the first general recognition of the disease and established a means Of diagnosis and character of treat ment and gave to America admitted priority and pre-emeninee in that treatment. The prominence which he gave to the symptoms of localized ten derness, now universally known as 'sMcBurney's point" brought a ready means of diagnosis and undoubtedly Jed to the saving :. of thousands of lives.
 His later contributions to medical science included the introduction of the first effective operation for the re- lief of hernia, a new method of opera ton for biliary calcu1i and a revoIu- tionary change in the method of treating dislocations of the humorus.
 He was a, pioneer in insisting upon aspetic surgery and he developed a great part of the aspetic operative technique which soon became a mat ter of course in all operating rooms