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department. After the battles of the
Peninsula, he was appointed to duty in
Michigan and soon brevetted colonel for
meritorious service; shortly before his
death he was promoted to brevet briga-
dier-general, and was chief medical
officer of the department of Ohio and
lived with his family in Detroit. In 1849
he was president of the Michigan Medical
Society.
He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1866, from epithelioma, leaving a wife and one daughter.
Papers:
"Gunshot Wounds of the Stomach." ("Peninsular Medical Journal," vol. iv.)
"Tripler and Blackman; Handbook for the Military Surgeon," 1861.
"Report on Rank of Medical Depart- ment of the Army." ("Transactions, American Medical Association," vol. xvi.)
" Remarks on the Irritative Fever of Drunkenness," 1827.
"Dehrium, its Nature and Treat- ment." (Reprint from "Western Lan- cet," Cincinnati, Ohio, 1857.)
" The Causes, Nature and Treatment of Scurv'y." (Reprint from "Cincinnati Lancet and Observer," 1858.)
" Manual of the Medical Officers of the Army of the United States," Part I; " Recruiting and Inspection of Recruits." (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858.)
" The Duties of Physicians in Relation to Medical Delusions," 1859.
"An Epitome of Tripler's Manual for the Examination of Recruits. ' ' (Pre- pared by Maj. Charles R. Greenleaf), Washington, Government Printing Office, 1884. . L. C.
Trans. Amer. Med Ass., Phila., vol. xv-iii. Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, vol. i. Med. Dep. U. S. Anny, Wash., 1873.
Triplett, William Harrison (183&-1890).
William Harrison Triplett was born September 15, 1836, at Mt. Jackson, Virginia, and took his M. D ., 1859, from Jefferson. He was acting assistant sur- geon, U. S. A.
W. H. Triplett, surgeon, on the
paternal side was descended from an
old Virginia family of English extraction,
represented in the war of the Revolution
by Col. Triplett, of Middleburg, Virginia,
and on the maternal side was the grand-
son of Dr. J. Irwin, a refugee from the
Irish rebellion of 1788. After graduating
in medicine Dr. Triplett settled first at
Harrisonburg, Virginia, staying one year,
then to Woodstock, Virginia, from which,
February 3, 1873, he removed to Wash-
ington. His specialty was surgery. He
was a member of the Medical Society and
Medical Association of the District. In
the " Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal," he discussed the "Improper
Treatment of Wounds in the United
States Hospitals," "Transposition of
Thoracic and Abdominal Viscera, with
Hydro-encephalocele, in an Infant Liv-
ing Thirty Days," and "Glanders in the
Human Subject;" while to the "Rich-
mond and Louisville Medical Journal,"
he contributed papers on "Hodgkin's
Disease," on "SyphiUtic Arteritis, with
Occlusion of both Subclavian Arteries,"
and on "Three Forms of Bright's Dis-
ease." He also wrote "The Laws and
Mechanics of Circulation," 1885. He
was professor of anatomy in the George-
town Medical School, 1875. He married
on June 1, 1867, Kathleen McKoy, and
died at Woodstock, Virginia, on March
27, 1890. D. S. L.
Atkinson, Eminent Phys. and Surgs. of the
U. S.
Min. of Med. Soc, D. C, April, 1890.
Tucker, David H. (1815-1871).
Professor of theory and practice of medicine in the Medical College of Rich- mond.
David H. Tucker was the eldest son of St. George Tucker, professor of law at the University of Virginia, graduated in medicine from the University of Virginia in 1836, and in the following year from the University of Pennsylvania. The next two years he spent in Paris, perfect- ing himself in medicine. Returning to the United States he began to practise in Philadelphia. A few j'ears later he
