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JUDSON 645 JUDSON Lord George Paulet I was appointed by the king to be his deputy to act in the British Commission appointed by him for the govern- ment of the Islands, viz., R. H. Lord George Paulet, Lieut, Frere, C. F. Makay, G. P. Judd." "I suffered much from weakness of the eyes and in the course of the year lost entirely the sight of my left eye, while it was almost im- possible with the right to see either to read or to write. The blindness proved to be a cata- ract and liable to affect the other eye at some future time." On his arrival in 1828 at Honolulu, island of Oahu, he began immediately to fill his du- ties as the attending physician of the mission. He performed many surgical operations which were the first of their kind that had been at- tempted. At the end of ten years he had thoroughly mastered the Hawaiian language and edited a small book called the "Anatomia" of some sixty pages with nineteen plates illus- trating the intricacies of the human body, which he, in conjunction with a native, had drawn and engraved. This work was remark- able in the number of new Hawaiian words coined, as the ignorance of the Hawaiian in regard to the human body made it impossible otherwise to describe it. The Haivaiian Spec- tator of April, 1838, vol. i, page 13, contains an account written by the doctor of the cli- mate and healthfulness of these islands, as evi- denced by his ten years' experience among the natives and foreigners. He points out that owing to the cool sea breezes the temperature never becomes excessive and from the small variation in temperature the islands were cer- tainly healthful. He married Laura Fish of Clinton, New- York State, September 20, 1827, by whom he had nine children, all born in Honolulu. He died in the coral stone house which he had built in Honolulu and named "Sweet Home," July 12, 1873, of apoplexy. Genealogical Record of the Judd Family, the Hastings Family and the Record and References in numerous encyclopedias. Personal communications from his son. Judson, Adonlram Brown (1837-1916) Adoniram Brown Judson, orthopedic sur- geon, of New York City, was born at Maul- main, Burmah, April 7, 1837. He was the eldest son of the missionar}', Adoniram Jud- son, and a descendant of William Judson, who came from Yorkshire, England, to Massachu- setts Bay in 1636. He graduated at Brown University in 1859, and attended recitations held at the Harvard Medical School by Drs. H. J. Bigelow and O. W. Holmes in 1860. He was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the United States Navy by President Lincoln in 1861, after passing the official examination, and before completing his medical studies or receiving the degree of M. D. He was pro- moted to be past assistant surgeon in 1864, and received the degree of M. D. from the Jeffer- son Medical College, Philadelphia, in 186.S. He was commissioned surgeon in the navy in 1866. In 1868 he received the degree of M. D. ad cundcm, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and resigned from the navy to settle in New York, where he prac- tised medicine, becoming a specialist in ortho- pedic surgery. In 1869 he was appointed in- spector on the New York City Board of Health, and served as assistant superintendent before resigning office in 1877. He held the office of pension examining surgeon of New York City from 1877-84 and from 1901-14. He was medical examiner of N. Y. State Civil Service Commission, 1901-9; orthopedic sur- geon to out-patient department. New York Hospital, 1878-1908; president of the Ameri- can Orthopedic Association, 1891 ; a member of the American Medical Association; a fel- low of the American College of Surgeons, American Academy of Medicine, and New York Academy of Medicine; also a member ot Lafayette Post, G. A. R. He married Anna Margaret Haughwout of New York, November 19, 1868. His contributions to literature were chiefly confined to matters connected with the public health and the theory and practice of his spe- cialty. His public health articles include: re- ports on the "Course of the Epizootic among American Horses in 1872 and 1873" and on the "History of Asiatic Cholera in the Missis- sippi Valley in 1873," He contributed an ori- ginal study of the "Cause of Rotation in Lat- eral Curvature of the Spine," to the Transac- tions of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1876. Among his other orthopedic papers may be enumerated the following: "Ischiatic Support of the Body in the Treatment of Joint Diseases of the Lower E.xtremity," 1881 ; "Practical Inferences from the Pathological Anatomy of Hip Disease," 1882; "The Ra- tionale of Traction in the Treatment of Hip Disease," 1883 ; "The Management of the Ab- scesses of Hip Disease," 188.S; "Treatment of White Swelling of the Knee," 1886; "The American Hip Splint," 1887 ; "Practical Points in the Treatment of Pott's Disease of the Spine," 1888; "More Conservatism Desirable in the Treatment of Joint Diseases of Chil- dren," 1889; "The Rotary Element in Lat- eral Curvature of the Spine," 1890; "Ortho-