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LLOYD 710 LOCKE brigadier-general and in July of the same year was mustered out. He was one of the charter members of both the Nebraska State Medical Society and the Omaha Medical College, having served on the faculty of the latter as professor of the prin- ciples and practice of surgery. In the State Medical Society he was for many years the moving spirit. The circular which called the first convention of physicians together for its organization was written and issued by him. He served in 1872 as its pres- ident, also he wrote much of the material in the early volumes of the Transactions and one on the "Progress of Surgery" which ap- peared in the Transactions of 1884. H. WiNNETT OrR. History of Nebraska, J. Sterling Morton, vol. ii. Portrait. Western Medical Review. H. W. Orr, vol. Ivi. Lloyd, James (1728-1810) According to J. M. Toner (Address on "Medical Biography," Philadelphia, 1876, 23) Dr. Lloyd of Boston was the first surgeon in America to use ligatures instead of searing wounds with the actual cautery, and to use the double flap in amputation after the meth- od of Cheselden. He also performed lithot- omy and was the first in Massachusetts to devote himself wholly to obstetrics. For near- ly sixty years he was the great physician and surgeon of New England and a warm advo- cate of inoculation for small-pox. He was the youngest of ten children born to Henry Lloyd, a Boston merchant, son of James Lloyd, who came from Somersetshire, England, about 1670. James was born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, April, 1728, and edu- cated in Stratford and New Haven, Connecti- cut. When seventeen he began his medical studies with Dr. William Clarke, of Boston, and after five years sailed to London, where he spent two years as dresser at Guy's Hospi- tal. While in London he attended lectures by William Hunter and William Smellie, then returned to Boston primed with all the latest knowledge of midwifery and surgery, and shortly, because of his attainments, acquired a large practice. He was for some time a sur- geon at Castle William and in 1764 was an advocate of general inoculation. Having ac- quired from Smellie's scientific method of teaching obstetrics a new conception of that science as a distinct branch, he practised and tattght midwifery, a pioneer obstetrician in Boston. Harvard conferred the honorary degree of M. D. on him in 1790. He was an incorpora- tor of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1781 and was a councillor. Dr. Lloyd died March 14, 1810, leaving a son James, who graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1787 and was a United States Senator. VV'ALTER L. BuRRAGE. A Sermon, J. .S. J. Gardiner, Boston, 1810. A (Jenealog. Dictny of the first settler;; of New England, James Savage, 1860. Amcr. Med. Biog., James Thacher, M.D., 1828. I'orlrait. Hist, of Med. in the U. S. to 1800, Francis R. Packard, M.D., 1901. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1888, vol. iii, 749. Lloyd, Zachary (1701-1756) Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the fif- teenth of November, 1701, he studied medi- cine with Dr. Kearsley, Sr., in Philadelphia, and in 1723 went abroad to continue his med- ical studies. He began practice in Philadel- phia in 1726 and was one of the Founders of the College of Philadelphia; he also helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital, serving as one of the members of its first medical statT, and at his death bequeathing to it 350 pounds and a number of books. He was at one time health officer of the Port of Philadelphia. He never married, and died on September 26, 1756, while paying a professional call. Dr. John Jones, who had been his pupil, wrote of him as "A person whose whole life had been one continued scene of benevolence and humanitv." ir , „ r> d FR.^v^•cIS R. Pacicard. Locke, John (1792-1856) John Locke was born in Fryeburg, Maine, February 19, 1792, the son of Samuel Barron and Hannah Pussell Locke. In 1796 his father moved to Bethel, Maine. Young Locke's mechanical taste and ingen- uity, as well as his love for books, was mani- fested at an early age, botany being his favor- ite stud)', but this he pursued under great difficulties. The books available were the "Pcntandria" — the fifth class of plants in the Linnaean system — and a small work by Miss Wakefield. In 1816 he met Dr. Solon Smith of Hanover and with him spent two years in further study of botany, while studying medi- cine also. Before graduating he obtained the position of assistant surgeon in the navy, but after a short and disastrous voyage, resigned and returned to medicine. Although he had never seen a piece of chemical apparatus, his genius led him to construct his own instru- ments. Chiseling out a mould in a soft brick he made twenty plates of zinc the size of a silver dollar. With as many silver dollars, and cloths wet in brine, he constructed a "Volta's pile" which was a partial success.