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^* Dr. John Richmond, "History of a SuccessfiJ Case of Caesarian
Operation," Western Journal, III (1830), 485-9.
^^ Dr. Bobbs's operation is reported in the Indiana State Medical Society
Transactions, 1868; apparently no account of the Wolcott nephrectomy
was written by the surgeon himself, but Dr. Charles L. Stoddard
reported it in the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, VII
(1861-62), 126 £f. See also Martin B. Tinker, "The First Nephrectomy
and the First Cholecystotomy, with a sketch of The Lives of Doctors
Erastus B. Wolcott and John S. Bobbs," Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin,
XII, 125 (August, 1901), 247 ff.
^^ Dr. Francis Randolph Packard, History of Medicine in the United
States (2 volumes, New York, 1931), I, 480. The subject of surgery
in Kentucky has been well treated in A. H. Barkley, Kentucky's "Pioneer
Lithotomists (Cincinnati, 1913). See also Dr. Joseph Nathaniel
McCormack, Some of the Medical Pioneers of Kentucky (Bowling
Green, 1917).
^^ "Medical and Surgical History of Elkhart Coimty," Indiana State
Medical Society Transactions, 1875, 85 flF; Alfred Theodore Andreas,
History of Chicago (3 volumes, 1884-86), I, 465; B. F. Uran, "The
Names and a Brief History of Early Physicians of Kankakee County,"
Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago, II, 2 (1919),
183-90; Packard, History of Medicine, I, 482; Dr. W. T. S. Cornett,
Indiana State Medical Society Transactions, 1874, 30.
^^ Dr. Jesse S. Myer, Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont (St.
Louis, 1912), 569. Two Beaumont notebooks, ably edited by Genevieve
Miller of The Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, have
been published as Wm. Beaumont's Formative Years; Two Early Notebooks
1811-1821 (New York, 1946). The influence of Dr. Beaumont's
work on his medical contemporaries and successors has been ably treated
by Dr. George Rosen, The Reception of William Beaumont's Discovery
in Europe (New York, 1942).
^'^
Western JoJirnal, III (1830), 317-40.
^'^Dr. W. H. Wishard thought that in 1825 in Indiana not over ten
per cent of the physicians were graduates of medical colleges and not
over twenty-five per cent had ever attended any lectures. Indiana State
Medical Society Transactions, 1889. In Ohio it is estimated that the
percentage of graduates rose from around ten to approximately twenty
by 183 5. Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, XLVIII
(1939), 190.
^®Dr. Robert Peter, Transylvania University, Its Origin, Rise,
Decline, and Fall, Filson Club Publications, XI (Louisville, 1896),
18-20, 64. The later publication by Dr. Peter (edited posthumously by
his daughter Johanna) The History of the Medical Department of
Transylvania University, 405, gives 1796 as the date for the establishment
of the Kentucky Academy.