successful operation, rendering infinite good to many unfortunate people who had the misfortune to have insanity added to poverty. He was constantly consulted in medico-legal cases.
Personally, Dr. Bancroft was universally admired. In his own city his opinion was frequently solicited, and he held at various times positions of trust in the banking, charitable, and educational institutions of the place. He was a religious man, posititve in his own convictions, but always charitable towards the views of others who might differ from him. The same simple, just and sympathetic qualities that made Dr. Bancroft a valued counsellor in public and private affairs throughout the state greatly endeared him to his intimate acquaintances and his own family.
For several years Dr. Bancroft was lecturer on mental diseases in the Dartmouth Medical School, and at the time of his last illness was a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, of the Association of Medical Superintendents of Institutions for the Insane, and president of the New England Psychological Society.
His death took place on April 30, 1891, as a result of uremic poisoning, after an invalidism of a year and a half.
Bangs, Lemuel Bolton (1842–1914)
L. Bolton Bangs, New York genito-urinary surgeon, was born in that city August 9, 1842, a son of Lemuel and Julia A. Bangs, and died at the age of seventy-two in New York City, October 4, 1914. He married Isabel Hoyt, December 5, 1894.
His academic course was interrupted by financial reverses that compelled him to take up business temporarily. He was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University) in 1872, served an interneship at Bellevue Hospital, and took postgraduate courses at Berlin and Vienna. On his return he became the associate of the late Dr. Fessenden N. Otis (q.v.), and helped him in the pioneer work which made genito-urinary surgery a specialty.
Dr. Bangs was an attending surgeon at St Luke's Hospital from 1885 to 1892; professor of genito-urinary diseases at the New York Post-graduate Medical School and Hospital from 1889 to 1894; thereafter emeritus professor; a member of its board of directors and treasurer of the corporation. The completion of its present building was largely due to his efforts. During 1898–1901 he was professor of genito-urinary surgery at the Bellevue Hospital Medical School. The hospitals to which he was a consulting surgeon were: St. Luke's, Bellevue, City, St. Vincent's and the Methodist Episcopal.
He was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; a member of the American Association of Genito-urinary Surgeons, its president in 1895; the American Medical Association; the state and county medical societies; the Practitioners' and the Clinical Society. Among his non-medical affiliations were the Society of Colonial Wars, the St. Nicholas Society and the following clubs: Century, University, Church and Quill.
Dr. Bangs contributed frequently to the medical journals and edited the "American Text Book on Genito-urinary Diseases" (1895).
He was a man of force and high ideals, an able practitioner, an astute, resourceful consultant, an inspiring teacher.
The Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital erected a tablet to his memory having the following inscription: "He made the study of medicine and surgery his avocation, and by his life exemplified its highest ideals in culture and ethics. To the furtherance of post-graduate instruction he enthusiastically devoted his skill, his knowledge and his scholarly attainments."
Bard, John (1716–1799)
This pioneer New York physician was the first in the United States to take part in a systematic dissection for the purpose of instruction and he was the first in that country to report a case of extra-uterine pregnancy. His father, Peter Bard, a refugee from France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, went first to London, and then to Delaware in 1703, on a mercantile venture. This not proving successful he settled in Burlington, New Jersey, where he was appointed judge of the supreme court and a member of the governor's council, dying at an early age and leaving his widow, a daughter of an English physician named Marmion, with a family of seven children to educate on very slender means. John, her third son, born February 1, 1716, was sent to Philadelphia where he received the rudiments of a classical education, partly at the hands of a Scotch gentleman, Annan by name, a man of reduced circumstances but an accomplished teacher of Latin and an exponent of polished manners.
