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BUSH 179 BUTLER Introductory Lecture to the Dissecting Class of Transylvania University," Lexington, No- vember 9, 1840; "Observations on the Opera- tions of Lithotomy," illustrated by cases from the practice of Prof. B. W. Dudley. Three portraits of this physician are in pos- session of his family ; one of these, by his brother, Joseph Bush, a talented pupil of Sul- ly, shows the wonderfully keen eyes for vvhicil he was noted. In his surgical work, he felt deeply the necessity of hospital advantages, and it was at his suggestion St. Joseph's Hospital at Lexington was founded, the first hospital in central Kentucky. Dr. Bush died of diabetes mellitus, and, con- scious of his condition, faced the inevitable without confiding to his family the serio'us na- ture of his disease. Robert Milligan Coleman. Bush, Lewis Potter (1812-1892) Born in Wilmington, Del., October 19, 1812, Lewis P. Bush graduated A. B. from Jefferson College in 1832 and in 1835 received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was resident physician at the Blockley Hospital un- til 1837, when he went to Wilmington, and practised till his death. He belonged to several historical societies in Delaware, Virginia and Pennsylvania and was presidmit of the American Medical So- ciety and wrote on the "History of Medicine and Physicians in Delaware," on which sub- ject he wrote the chapter in Scharf's "His- tory of Delaware." He wrote on the "Typhoid Epidemic in Wil- mington in 1847-48-49" and "Report on Cli- matology and Epidemics of Delaware during Twenty-five Years," 1872. In 1839 he married Maria, daughter of Mor- gan Jones of Wilmington. In 1860 he was president of the State Med- ical Society and read papers specially advocat- ing sanitary reforms. He died March S, 1892. Hist, of the State of Delaware, J. T. Scharf, 1898. Wilmington Board of Health, Biennial Report, 1890-2. Phys. & Surgs. of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Bushe, George Macartney (1797-1836) George Macartney Bushe, a New York sur- geon, was born in Ireland in 1797, and died in New York in 1S36. He was brought over to America by the faculty of the Rutgers Medical College of New Jersey in 1828, as professor of anatomy in that school, on the recommendation of Mr., afterwards Sir Will- iam Lawrence (1783-1867). He died young, leaving behind him a bril- liant reputation as a bold, dashing operator, and as the author of the well-known stand- ard monograph on the "Diseases of the Rec- tum and Anus," long considered the ablest work on the subject in any language (N. Y. 1837). Of this work Bushe says in the "Ad- vertisement" : "I shall make but few prefatory remaik'; respecting this work, and these shall be short. Many years ago, I was induced to pay par- ticular attention to the diseases of the rectum and anus, in consequence of their frequency, and the diversity of opinion which prevailed in relation to their nature and treatment. My opportunities for investigating them have been ample, and I may safely say, that I spared neither time, trouble or expense in endeavor- ing to arrive at just conclusions. . . . 58 Walker Street, New York, December 1st 1836." He also published a memoir on staphylor- raphy, and was the founder and editor of the New York Medico-Chirurgical Bulletin, an able journal of brief duration and of two vol- umes only issued from May 1831, to April, 1832. In his journal he courteously "returns thanks to his subscribers for their support, and regrets that his professional avocations com- pel him to discontinue the publication." He was author of many of the articles, including clinical reports from his note-books kept for eleven years, and reports submitted t>y him to the Army Medical Board while attached to the General Military Hospital of England. John D. Godman (q.v.) retired from Rut- gers Medical Faculty (that brief but brilliant Hurry of medical instruction) in 1828 and was succeeded by Bushe and it was recorded of Bushe that he had "proven himself eminently qualified by his talents and learning, to sustain the reputation of the School" ("Catalogue of the officers and students for the session of 1829-30 and graduates of the preceding ses- sions"). He was professor of anatomy and physiology. ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ Information from the New York Public Library. A Century of American Medicine, S. D. Gross. Phila., 1876. Butler, John Simpkins (1803-1890) John Simpkins Butler, superintendent of the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane, was born at Northampton, Mass., in 1803. He gradu- ated at Yale College in 1825 with the degree of M. A., and after beginning the study of med- icine in the office of Drs. Hunt and Barrett of Northampton, received his degree of M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College in 1828.