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BURROUGHS 176 BURTON lectures on surgery and in 1903 was made pro- fessor of clinical surgery. He was made surgeon-general of Massa- chusetts in 1893, and in 1898 saw service dur- ing the Spanish-American War as surgeon-in- charge of the Massachusetts volunteer and hos- pital ship, Bay State. He became surgeon to the Children's Hos- pital in 1893, and was made consulting sur- geon to the Carney Hospital in 1899 and senior surgeon to the Boston City Hospital in 1897. Burrell was a surgeon of high grade and one of the first successfully to ligate the innomi- nate artery and the first successfully to reim- plant an entire trephine button. He arranged for the meeting of the Ameri- can Medical Association in Boston in 1906 and displayed a high degree of executive abil- ity. His society membership included the Ameri- can Surgical Association, of which he was secretary for several years; the American So- ciety of Clinical Surgery; American Ortho- pedic Association ; Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and in 1908-9 he was pres- ident of the American Medical Association. He wrote a good deal for medical journals and also wrote "Case Teaching in Surgery" with Dr. J. B. Blake. He married Lillie, daughter of Dr. William H. Thorndike (q.v.). She died in 1897 and he married Caroline W. Cay ford in 1899; who with two sons survived him. For a year before his death Dr. Burrell was an invalid on account of chronic disease of tlje kidney with cardiac complications, and had been unable to teach or to practise. He died at his home in Boston, April 26, 1910. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., Chicago, May 7, 1910, in which there is a portrait. Boston Transcript, April 27, 1910. Burroughs, Richara Berrien (1833-1901) One of Florida's prominent physicians and s'urgeons, Richard B. Burroughs, was born in the city of Savannah, Georgia, January 19, 1833. His middle name was derived from his maternal grandfather, John MacPherson Bci- rien, who was attorney-general of Andrew- Jackson's cabinet. Dr. Burroughs graduated at the University of Georgia in 1853 and at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1856, taking up practice afterwards at Tallahassee, Florida, and in Camden County, Georgia, prior to the Civil War. At the beginning of the struggle he en- tered the Confederate army as a surgeon, and was assigned to duty with the sixty-third Georgia regiment at Thunderbolt, near Sa- vannah. Preferring a more active service he was transferred, in 1862, to the fourth Georgia cavalry. Col. Duncan L. Clinch, and with that noted command shared in the Atlanta cam- paign. A large portion of the war period was spent by Dr. Burroughs as surgeon with the gallant J. J. Dickison's command in Florida, and deserved tribute is paid to him in the his- tory of "Dickison and his Men." In other fields he was distinguished. At the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, he rode through a galling fire to where the gallant Captain Wylly had fallen, shot through the neck, placed the wounded man on his horse and on foot suc- ceeded in conveying him to a place of safety. At the battle of Olustee, he gave his horse to Col. Smith, whose own had been killed, and continued during the rest of the fight to dis- charge the functions of his office unmounted. He settled in Jacksonville in 1880 and for many years was a leading physician in that city. He was appointed by Gov. Drew, in 1885, on the staff of Gen. Capers W. Bird as Chief Surgeon with the rank of major, and in 1892 was appointed surgeon-general by Gen. J. J. Dickison of the Florida Confederate Veterans. Dr. Burroughs married, first, Ella J. Bur- roughs, who died on August 13, 1868, then Florida Lewis, who died April 14, 1895. At his death he left six children. Dr. Burroughs died September 11, 1901, at the home of his son, Joseph Hallett Burroughs, in Norfolk, Virginia. William B. Burroughs. Burton, Elijah (1794-1854) .Elijah Burton was a prominent pioneer phy- sician of CoUamer, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and the stalwart progenitor of a line of phy- sicians who, for nearly a century, have dom- inated the practice of the locality in which he settled. Born in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, he received the ordinary ed- ucation of the common schools of his day. En- dowed by nature with a taste for miliary af- fairs and filled with the traditional patriotism of the "Green Mountain Boys of 76," on the outbreak of the war with Great Britain in 1812-14 he enlisted in the volunteer forces of the United States, though still a mere youth, served throughout the war with the rank of orderly sergeant of his company, and at the close of the contest returned to his native city and soon after began to study medicine under Dr. Isham. On the organization of the Cas- tleton Medical College, at Castleton, Ver- mont, in 1818, young Burton attended the lec- tures there and received his M. D. in 1819 or