HAYWOOD 510 HAZLETT tution, amputation of the thigh, occupying a minute and three-quarters exclusive of the tying of the vessels. The operation was done before a large audience of students and physi- cians, and the patient, a delicate girl of twen- ty, with a scrofulous knee-joint, was len- tirely ignorant that her leg had been removed. While recording secretary of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society from 1826 to 1832 he wrote full and clearly written records, and when president from 1852 to 1855 he was de- voted to the interests of the society. At this time he was made one of the seven fellows of Harvard College, an office he held until his death, a rather unusual honor to be be- stowed on a member of the medical profes- sion. He seems to have been almost morbid in his fear of publicity, and destroyed all papers that might have been used by future biographers. He published "Some Account of the First Use of Sulphuric Ether by Inhala- tion in Surgical Practice" in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, April 21, 1847. Walter L. Burrage. Hist. Har. Med. School, T. F. Harrington, 1905. Commun. Mass. Med. Soc., vol. x, p. 342. The Introduction of Surgical Anaesthesia, R. M. Hodges, M. D., Boston, 1891. Haywood, Edmund Burke (1825-1894)- Of distinguished English and North Caro- lina ancestry, he was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, January 13, 1825, and during his day was the greatest physician in the state capi- tal. His collegiate education was obtained at the University of North Carolina and his pro- fessional degree from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1849. From 1861-65 he continuously rendered ser- vice to the Confederacy as surgeon of Raleigh Light Infantry; inspector of military hospitals, Morris Island, South Carolina; surgeon-in- charge of Fair Grounds Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina ; surgeon at Seabrook Hos- pital during the fights around Richmond ; later surgeon-in-charge of Pettigrew's Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina. He served as president of the North Caro- lina Medical Society (1869), and of the Ra- leigh Academy of Medicine, having been one of the founders of that institution. The Uni- versity of North Carolina conferred upon him the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. His con- tributions to medical literature were con- sidered of great value, among them being "The Physician, His Relation to the Com- munity and the Law." It was largely through his influence that the institution for the colored insane of the state was erected at Goldsboro ; he also urged the establishment of the Western Asylum for the insane at Morganton. As a surgeon he ranked at the head of his profession and per- formed with success many of the important cases such as : the Cesarean section, in Au- gust, 1874; strangulated inguinal hernia, two cases out of four being cured ; lacerated peri- neum. In 1869 he successfully performed liga- tion of the right iliac artery, for traumatic aneurysm of the femoral artery, the first operation of the kind ever performed in the state, and considered so important that it was published in pamphlet form by the State Medi- cal Society. In April of the same year he as- sisted Dr. Washington Atlee (q. v.) of Phila- delphia in performing at Raleigh an operation (ovariotomy). The patient being left entire- ly in Dr. Haywood's charge, recovered and afterwards became the mother of three chil- dren. He operated twice successfully for the removal of submucous fibroid of the uterus. He performed many other notable surgical operations, among those being: aspiration of the pericardium for hydrops peri- cardii; external esophagotomy for impacted foreign body low down in esophagus ; ampu- tation of thigh in its upper third for gangrene of leg caused by traumatic femoral aneurysm ; tracheotomy for foreign body in the bronchus. In 1850 he married Lucy A. Williams, daughter of Mr. Alfred Williams. He died on January 18, 1894, in the house in which he was born. He was survived by one daughter and six sons. One son, Hubert, became a doctor. Hubert A. Rovster. Hazlett, Robert W. (1828-1899). Robert W. Hazlett was born in Washing- ton, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1828. his parents being Samuel and Sarah Johns Hazlett. His paternal grandparents, Robert Hazlett from Edinburgh, and Mary Caldwell Hazlett, daughter of Katherine Caldwell (nee Rene), a Huguenot, came to America in 17SS. He had his college course at Washington, now Washington and Jefferson College, some years later receiving his A. M. He early evinced an interest in medicine and showed it by preparation of many speci- mens for the college lectures on anatomy and physiology by Dr. James King, a work for which he possessed natural artistic talent. He began to study medicine in Wheeling, West Virginia, with his cousin. Dr. R. H. Cum-
