George Milbr(e)y Gould (November 8, 1848
Auburn, Maine
Auburn is a city in south-central Maine within the United States. The city serves as the county seat of Androscoggin County. The population was 24,061 at the 2020 census. Auburn and its sister city Lewiston are known locally as the Twin Cities ...
– August 8, 1922
Atlantic City
Atlantic City, often known by its initials A.C., is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The city is known for its casinos, Boardwalk (entertainment district), boardwalk, and beaches. In 2020 United States censu ...
) was an American physician and lexicographer.
Life
At 12 years, he enlisted and became a
drummer boy in the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
, serving in the
63rd Ohio Infantry
The 63rd Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the Union forces in the Western Theater of operations.
Organization
The original 63rd Ohio Infantry Regiment w ...
(1861–2) and later in Company K,
141st Ohio Infantry during 1864.
After the war, he entered the
Ohio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five – a consortium ...
and received a
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
in 1873 and a
Master of Arts
A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...
in 1892. He also received the
Phi Beta Kappa key. He graduated from
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, gov ...
(1874) and worked as the owner of a bookstore. He entered
Jefferson Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University is a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in its earliest form in 1824, the university officially combined with Philadelphia University in 2017. To signify its heritage, the univer ...
in 1885 and graduated in 1888. He then opened an Ophthalmology office in Philadelphia.
During that time he invented the cemented
bifocal lens
Bifocals are glasses, eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism (eye), astigmatism.
History
Benjamin Franklin ...
.
He was the first president of the Association of Medical Librarians (now the
Medical Library Association
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit educational organization with more than 3,400 health sciences information professional members and partners worldwide.
History
Founded on May 2, 1898, by four librarians, including Marcia ...
). He served from 1898 to 1901.
After twenty years of practice, he moved to
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named a ...
and three years later to Atlantic City.
A collection of papers about his life are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
Works
*Students' Medical Dictionary
*A Pocket medical dictionary (1890)
*Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine (with
Walter Lytle Pyle) (1896)
*A book of poems (1897)
*Biographic Clinics (1903)-Volume I – The Origin of Ill Health of
De Quincey
Thomas Penson De Quincey (; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'' (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quince ...
,
Carlyle,
Darwin,
Huxley and
Browning
*Biographic Clinics (1904)-Volume II – The Origin of Ill Health of
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...
,
George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes (; 18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist. American feminist Margaret Fuller called Lewes a "witty, French, flippant sort of m ...
,
Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
,
Parkman,
Jane Welch Carlyle,
Spencer,
Whittier,
Margaret Fuller Ossoli, and
Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, Prose poetry, prose poet, cultural critic, Philology, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philo ...
*Biographic Clinics (1904)-Volume III – Influence of Visual Function Upon Health
*Concerning
Lafcadio Hearn
, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (; el, Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn, Irish language, Irish: Pádraig Lafcadio O'hEarain), was an Irish people, Irish-Greeks, Greek-Japanese people, Japanese writer, t ...
(with
Laura Stedman) (1908)
*Righthandedness and lefthandedness (1908)
*The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary (with R J E Scott) (1910)
*The Infinite Presence (1910)
References
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1848 births
1922 deaths
Harvard Divinity School alumni
American ophthalmologists
Union Army soldiers
People of Ohio in the American Civil War
American lexicographers
People from Auburn, Maine
Jefferson Medical College alumni