ROBERT S. NEWTON, born in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1818, who was a
country school teacher until 1836 when he began the study of medicine,
graduating from the Louisville Medical Institute in 1841 and practicing for
four years in Gallipolis and subsequently four years in Cincinnati. In 1849
he became professor of surgery in the Memphis Medical Institute. In 1851
be was called to Cincinnati and was the incumbent of the chair of surgery
at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute until 1862. He was an eloquent
and scholarly teacher, a splendid debater and immensely popular with the
students. He wielded the pen with much force. In conjunction with John
King he published the U. S. Dispensatory (1852), with Dr. W. Byrd Powell
in 1854 a volume on practice. He edited many important works. In 1863
he removed to New York City and died there in 1881. His best work was
done in the columns of the Eclectic Medical Journal from 1851 to 1862.
The latter journal under his management became a power in medical circles
and represented in its time the best literary effort of its kind in Cincinnati.
None of the regular publications at that time compare with Newton's Jour-
nal. Among N'ewton's collaborators was Daniel Vaughn, Cincinnati's best
known and most highly respected scientist during the last century.

   ZOHETH FREEMAN, a distinguished surgeon, was born in Nova
Scotia in 1826, came to Buffalo in 1846 where he studied medicine under
Austin Flint and Frank H. Hamilton. He graduated from the Eclectic Med-
ical Institute in 1848. He began his career as a teacher in his Alma Mater
in 1851 and continued to teach until 1872. III health compelled him to resign
his chair. He continued in practice until the time of his death in 1898. His
clinical papers were among the most valuable contributions published by the
Eclectic Medical Journal. His son, Leonard Freeman, has risen to con-
siderable eminence as a surgeon in Denver, Col.

   GEORGE W. L. BICKLEY, born in Russell County, Virginia, in 1823,
was a picturesque character, brilliant, capable, of adventurous habits and
full of schemes of all kinds. His career was similar to that of the talented,
visionary and unfortunate Joseph Nash McDowell, Drake's colleague in the
Medical Department of the Cincinnati College. Bickley was thoroughly ill-
balanced and erratic, always on the move and endowed with a marvelous
talent for getting into trouble. Some considered him a genius while others
thought him a notorious and dangerous character. He was a globe-trotter,
and spent some six or seven of the forty-four years of his life in Cincin-
nati, lecturing at the Eclectic Institute. His work as a lecturer on materia
medica was eminently satisfactory. He was in Cincinnati from 1852 to 1854
and again from 1856 to 1861, when his second nature, Wanderlust, took him
away to the battlefields of the South. Judging from his articles in the
"Eclectic Medical Journal," he was the equal of any medical writer in the
West at that time. His style reminds one of Drake, rhetorical and of class-
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