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FUSSELL 418 FUSSELL which he subsequently rewrote and enlarged for a second edition. He began a work on materia medica, which he never was able to finish, from stress of other labors. In August, 1870, he brought from its proprie- tor the Dominion Medical Journal, which had been carried on for a short time, and into which Dr. Fulton at once infused life and vigor. He changed its name to the Canada Lancet, and under this title it appeared for the first time in September, 1870; through Dr. Fulton's able editorship it became the most influential and widely-circulated medical jour- nal in the Dominion of Canada. As an editor of a medical journal, he was earnest, painstaking, and thorough in an un- usual degree; the same, too, may be said of him as a medical teacher, and indeed in every other relation in life where he had duties to perform. All his efforts in life were crowned with success, as a result of his perseverance and industry, for he was essentially a self-made man, and a man of unusual force of character. He left behind him a son and three daughters. A Cyclop, of Can, Biof;.. George M. Rose, Toronto, 1888, series ii, 697-699. The Canada Lancet, June, 1887, vol. xi.x. 313. Kansas City Med. Record, vol. iv, 237-238. Fussell, Bartholomew (1794-1871). Bartholomew Fussell, physician and early advocate of medical education for women, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, son of Bartholomew Fussell, a farmer. He went to Maryland where he taught school while study- ing medicine and graduated M. D. at the Uni- versity of Maryland in 1824. He settled in Cecil County, Maryland, but later moved to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. While in Maryland he became deeply in- terested in the slaves and instructed them in religion, holding classes on Sunday, and he protected and aided them later at his home in Pennsylvania. He signed the "Declaration of Sentiments" issued in 1833 by the American Anti-Slavery Society, and was at the last meet- ing of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society when the organization was dissolved after slavery had been abolished. He was in favor of common school educa- tion, of temperance and of women studying medicine; in this last he was influenced by his sister Esther. In 1840 he gave medical in- struction to a class made up of women, and with unabated interest in 1846 he told his plan for the medical education of women to a few liberal-minded professional men. He called a meeting of men and women to con- sider the Woman's Medical College (incor- porated in 1850 under the name of Female Medical College of Pennsylvania ; changed in 1867 to Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl- vania). He always considered his proposi- tion which led to establishing the college as one of the "most important results of his life." Russell counted among his friends William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier, and his name appears in Whittier's "The Re- sponse," addressed to politicians who were against the abolitionists : "Go, hunt sedition — search for that In every peddler's cart of rags. Pry into every Quaker's hat. And Dr. Fussell's saddle-bags; Lest treason wrap with all its ills Around his powders and his pills." Whittier also calls him "the beloved physi- cian of Kennett Square" (Atlantic Monthly, February, 1874). In 1826 Fussell married Lydia, daughter of Moses Morris. He died near Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1871. Howard A. Kelly. Information from Dr. Fussell's family, Med, Annals of Maryland. E. F. Cordell, Balti- more, 1903. Fussell, Edwin B. (1813-1882). Edwin B. Fussell, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1813, was a nephew of Bartholomew Fussell (q. v.), with the same tastes and enthusiasm for what he believed to be just causes as his uncle. He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 with a thesis on "Acute Peritonitis." He settled in Pendleton, Indiana. There he rendered surgical aid to Frederick Douglass and sheltered him in his house after he was mobbed in 1843, but was driven out because of his opposition to slavery. He returned to Pennsylvania, and helped to secure medi- cal education for women. He was one of the group called together by Bartholomew Fus- sell to consider the founding of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Others in- vited to discuss the movement were Franklin Taylor, Ezra Michener, and Elwood Harvey. He was dean of the College from 1856-1866 and the professor of histology, practice of medicine, obstetrics and diseases of women. "When Dr. Fussell accepted a professorship in a woman's medical school he did so at the risk of forfeiting the fellowship of his medical brethren," the cause being unpopular among the physicians of the time. Dr. Fussell died in 1882.