The Venereal Diseases, by Bumstead
was one of the Civil War medical books issued to the Union Army medical
personnel during the war by the Surgeon General of the United States
Army.
Freeman Josiah Bumstead, physician,
born in Boston, Massachusetts, 21 April, 1826; died in New York City, 28
November, 1879. He was graduated at Williams in 1847, and at Harvard medical
College in 1851, after which he attended medical lectures in Paris. In 1852
he settled in New York, and became a specialist in venereal diseases. He
held many important offices, among which were those of surgeon to the New
York eye and ear infirmary, to the venereal wards of the charity hospital,
Blackwell's island, to the stranger's hospital; and from 1867 till 1871 he
was professor of venereal diseases at the College of physicians and
surgeons, New York. Dr. Bumstead was a member of various medical societies,
and from 1875 till 1876 vice-president of the Torrey botanical club. He
contributed papers to the medical journals, and translated Ricord's notes to
"Hunter's Treatise on the Venereal Diseases" (Philadelphia, 1854), and
Cullerier's "Atlas of Venereal Diseases" (1867). "Pathology and Treatment of
Venereal Diseases" (1861) is his most important work.
Freeman
Josiah Bumstead
was born in Boston, April 31, 1826. After
leaving college, he taught a young ladies' school at Roxbury, Mass., for
two years. He obtained the degree of M. D. in the summer of 1851, after
which he passed a year abroad, chiefly in Paris. He finally settled in
New York city, in the autumn of 1852, in the practice of medicine, where
he still resides. He has been connected with several public institutions
of New York; he was for some years surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, and
is now surgeon to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and surgeon to the
Charity Hospital of Blackwell's Island. During the session of 1866-7, he
was lecturer on Materia Medica at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, N. Y., and is now professor of Venereal diseases at the same
college. His published works are a translation of Record's Notes to
Hunter on Venereal (1854); an original work on the Pathology and
Treatment of Venereal Diseases (1861), and a translation of Cullerier's
Iconographie des Maladies V6n.
(1867). He married Mary Josephine, daughter of the late Ferdinand E.
White, of Boston, in 1861, and has a son, Elliot White Bumstead, and a
daughter,' Anna Willis Bumstead.
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Freeman
Josiah Bumstead BUMSTEAD, Freeman Josiah, physician, born in Boston,
Massachusetts, 21 April, 1826; died in New York City, 28 November, 1879.
He was graduated at Williams in 1847, and at Harvard medical College in
1851, after which he attended medical lectures in Paris. In 1852 he
settled in New York, and became a specialist in venereal diseases. He
held many important offices, among which were those of surgeon to the
New York eye and ear infirmary, to the venereal wards of the charity
hospital, Blackwell's island, to the stranger's hospital; and from 1867
till 1871 he was professor of venereal diseases at the College of
physicians and surgeons, New York. Dr. Bumstead was a member of various
medical societies, and from 1875 till 1876 vice-president of the Torrey
botanical club. He contributed papers to the medical journals, and
translated Ricord's notes to "Hunter's Treatise on the Venereal
Diseases" (Philadelphia, 1854), and Cullerier's "Atlas of Venereal
Diseases" (1867). "Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases" (1861)
is his most important work. From Famous Americans: