GUNN
GUTHRIE
epoch, of the Michigan State Medical
Society, the Detroit Medical Society,
the Illinois State Medical Society,
Chicago Medical Society, the Ameri-
can Surgical Association, the American
Association of Genito-urinary Surgeons;
surgeon to the Cook County Hospital,
St. Joseph's and St. Luke's Hospitals,
and the Presbyterian Hospital — all in
Chicago — and in 1867 he accepted the
chair of surgery in Rush Medical Col-
lege proving a potent factor in its
larger evolution. During the winters of
1S51-52-53 he made many dissections
which proved that the untorn portion
of the capsule in dislocation of the
shoulder and hip caused the character-
istic attitude assumed by the limbs
and was the true obstacle to reduction.
He also demonstrated that the return
of the dislocated bone into its socket
can easily be effected by putting the
limb in such a position as will effectu-
ally approximate the two points of
attachment of the untorn portion of
the ligament ("Peninsular Journal of
Medicine," Detroit, vol. i, p. 95).
Gunn was over six feet, well proportion-
ed, with erect military carriage, long
side whiskers, heavy drooping mus-
tache, curly hair that rested on his
coat collar, and clear blue eyes. His
lectures were prepared with the great-
est care, and so had an effect far be-
yond the modern medical lecture. It
is said that the great Chicago fire
destroyed the manuscript of a work on
surgery he had nearly completed. Gunn
was a rare conversationalist and loved the
art. Children ranked with his warmest
friends; to these he added animals, flowers
and all forms of natural beauty.
In 1848 he married Jane Augusta Terry, only daughter of Dr. J. M. Terry, and three of their four children survived him. He died November 4, 1887, after a long illness, from malig- nant disease of the stomach.
His papers included:
"Address in Surgery." ("Transac- tions American Medical Association," vol. xxx.)
"Pyemia." (Ibid., vol. xxix.)
"Shortening in Fractures." (Ibid., vol. xxix.)
"Syphilis." (Ibid., vol. xxv.)
"Philosophy of Certain Dislocations of the Hip and Shoulder." ("Penin- sular Medical Journal, vol. i.)
"Luxation of the Hip and Shoulder- joint." ("Peninsular Medical Journal," vol. iii.)
" Unsuccessful Operation for Un- united Fracture." (" Medical Independ- ent," vol. ii.)
"Urethral Stricture." ("Medical In- dependent," vol. iii.)
" Abscess Simulating Malignant Growth." ("Medical Independent," vol. iii.
" Resection of the E 1 b o w-j o i n t." (" Medical Independent," vol iii.)
"Selections from Surgical Notes." ("Peninsular and Independent Medical Journal," vol. ii.)
"Luxation of the Hip and Shoulder- joints and the Agents which Oppose Their Reduction" 1859).
(1871) "Valedictory Address, Rush Medical College." (Reprint, "Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner," 1871.)
"Treatment of Fractures of the Skull, Recent and Chronic, with Depression." (" American Practitioner," vol. xxvi.
"Fracture of the Floor of the Acet- abulum." (" New York Medical Jour- nal," vol. xli.)
"The Philosophy of Manipulation in the Reduction of Hip and Shoulder Dislocations." ("Transactions Ameri- can Surgical Association," 1S84, vol. ii.) L. C.
History of Mich. University. Ann Arbor, 1906.
Life by Prof. DeNancrede, Michigan Alum- nus, May, 1906.
Portrait by Ravenaugh in the Medical Fac- ulty Room, Ann Arbor. Memorial Sketches of Dr. Moses Gunn, by his wife, Chicago, 1SS9.
Guthrie, Samuel (1782-1848).
Samuel Guthrie, Jr., was the son of Samuel Guthrie, of Bloomfield, Mass- achusetts, whose home is still standing
