ROGERS
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ROGERS
was appointed demonstrator of anatomy
in the College of Phj^sicians and Surgeons,
New York, and four years after, surgeon
to the New York Hospital, an office he
had much coveted and which he retained
up to his death. As an operator his
crowning trium])h was the ligation, in
184.5, of the left subclavian artery on the
inside of the scalene muscle on account
of a huge aneurysm, a feat which up to
that time was universally regarded as im-
practicable. True, the patient did not
recover, liut the operation was masterly
and nothing left undone to insure
favorable results. Conscientious in deal-
ing with his patients, he never operated
merely for the sake of operating. In con-
sultations he was the wise counsellor and
always a sympathizing and trusted friend
and physician.
His death, in 1 851, was caused by a rare disease, phlebitis of the liver, followed by peritonitis. It is to be regretted that he left no record of his vast experience save the publication of a few brief medical papers.
He has one or two papers, among them is:
"Ligature of the Left Subclavian Artery within the Scalenus Muscle for Aneurysm," 1S4G. D. W.
Autol)iography of S. I). (!ross.
Biog. .Sketch of .1. K. Rodgers, Dr. E. Dola
field, N. Y., 1852.
N. Jersey Med. Reporter, 1S.")1, vol. v.
Rogers, Coleman (1781-1855).
Coleman Rogers was Ijorn March G, 1781, in Culpepper County, Virginia. In 1787 his father emigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Fayette County, at a place known as Bryant's Station, about five miles from Lexington. Coleman Rogers was the seventh among eleven sons and one daughter. Although six feet two inches in height and weighing usually one hundred and eighty pounds, he was one of the smallest of the family, and in early life suffered from bronchial troul)le.
But little is known of his history prior to his twenty-first year, but it is probable he only went to the local schools. At th(>
age of twenty-one he began to study
medicine with Dr. Samuel Brown, of
Lexington. In 1803 he went to Phila-
delphia (making the journey on horse-
back in twenty-three days) where he
remained eighteen months for lectures at
the University of Pennsylvania. Wliile
there he was the ])rivate pupil of Dr.
Charles Caldwell. Although qualified,
poverty prevented liis graduating before
leaving Pliiladelphia. On his return to
Kentucky he settlotl in Danville, and
formed a partnership with Dr. Ephraim
McDowell. On the third of November,
1805, he was married to Jane Farrar, and
in 1810 returned t(j Fayette County,
where he remained until 1816, when he
again went to Pliiladelphia and eventu-
ally received an honorary M. D. While
thei"e he was offered the position of
adjunct professor of anatomy in the
medical dejiartment of Transylvania
University; this he decUned. In 1818
he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he became associated Avith Dr. Daniel
Drake in ])rartice, and was a colleague of
Drake in the Medical C'ollege of Ohio,
and one of the original incorporators of
that institution. He was vice-president
and professor of surgery at its organiza-
tion. In 1821 he removed to Newport,
Kentucky, then a village opposite Cin-
cinnati; .settling finally, 1823, in Loui.s-
ville, Kentucky, where he remained. He
was for ten years surgeon to the Marine
Hospital in Louisville.
In 1832, in connection with Drs. Harri- son, Powell and A. G. Smith, he organizeil the Louisville Medical Institute and was appointed professor of anatomy. For more than fifty years h(> was in active and successful practice.
He died February Ki. 1855, aged .seventy-foiu' years. A. G. D.
Address on Coleiiian Rogers, .M. I_) , 1JS.5."). (H y\ Bullitt).
Rogers, Henry Raymond (1822 1901).
Henry Raymond Rogers, one of Dun- kirk's most i)rominent citizens and the oldest physician in Chatauqua County, New York, was liorn in Winslow, Maine,
