BULKLEY
BULL
He is said to have had few superiors in his
time. He married Sarah, daughter of
Pres. Chauncey of Harvard on October 26,
1659 and had by her six children, one of
whom, John, was a clerical physician, of
high rank in his day. Another son,
Charles, also practised medicine. He
died in Wethersfield (the father;, 1713
and is buried in the cemetry there, back
of the Congregational church.
W. R. S.
Sumner, Address on the Early Physicians of
Conn. Trans. Conn. Med. Soc., 1892.
Russell, Early Medicine and Early Medical
Men in Conn. Trans. Conn. Med. Soc, 1892.
Steiner, The Reverend Gershom Bulkley, an
Eminent Clerical Physician. Johns Hopkins
Hospital Bulletin, 1906, xvii.
Sibley, Harvard Graduates, 1873, i, pp. 3S9-
402.
Chapman, The Bulkley Family.
Bulkley, Henry Daggett (1804-1 872).
Henry Daggett Bulkley, the son of John Bulkley, ship captain and trader, was born at New Haven, Connecticut, April 4, 1S04 and graduated from Yale in 1821. For a number of years he engaged in business in New York but tiring of this he studied medicine under Dr. Jonathan Knight and received his M. D. from Yale in 1830. The year 1831 was spent in Europe, most of the time in Paris, where he attended the lectures of Biett and Albert at the St. Louis Hospital, but in 1833 settled in New York City where he was immediately appointed surgeon to the department of skin diseases in the New York Dispensary. In 1837 he delivered a course of lectures on this specialty at the Broom Street Infirmary for Skin Diseases, an institution founded and for many years sustained by him. These lectures were undoubtedly the first on skin diseases given in America. In 1842 he delivered a special course during the spring term of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was for some years editor of the " New York Medical Times" and edited the American edition of Burgess, "Translation of Cazenave" and Schedels, "Diseases of the Skin."
He was, perhaps, the earliest writer on infantile syphilis in this country. His
article of sixty-six pages on "Syphilis in
Infants" appeared in 1840 and was
considered a work of great importance at
that time.
Most of his other journal articles, which were few in number, were in the form of clinical lectures on diseases of the skin.
He died January 4, 1872 and was twice married, his second wife being Miss Julia Barnes of Oneida, New York. One of his sons, Lucius Duncan Bulkley, became a cutaneous specialist in New York City.
For a number of years he was attending physician at the New York Hospital; 1867, president of the Medical Society of the County of New York; 1869, presi- dent of the New York Academy of Med- icine; 1870, president of the New York Dermatological Society. J. M. W.
New York Med. Jour., 1872, vol. xv. Med. Reg. of New York, 1872, vol. x.
Bull, William Tillinghast (1S49-1909).
One of New York's leading surgeons, W. T. Bull, son of Henry B. Bull, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, May 18, 1S49; graduated from Harvard with his A. B. in 1869, received his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, 1872; and after an interneship in Bellevue Hospital and two years' study in Europe, settled for prac- tice in New York City. He was in charge of the New York Dispensary from 1S75 to 1877; of the Chambers Street Hospital in 1877 and 1878; visiting surgeon to the New York Hospital, 1883; visiting surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital from 1880 to 1883; consulting surgeon to the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, Roosevelt, Woman's hospitals, and to the State Emigrants' Hospital. He began his teaching work in his alma mater in 1S79 as demonstrator of anatomy, and was made professor of practice of surgery and clinical surgery in 1889. He was a fellow of the American Surgical Asso- ciation and of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of many other scientific societies.
It was while Dr. Bull was at the
