George Milbr(e)y Gould (November 8, 1848

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– August 8, 1922 Atlantic City) was an American physician and lexicographer.

Life

At 12 years, he enlisted and became a drummer boy in the

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, serving in the

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(1861–2) and later in Company K, 141st Ohio Infantry during 1864. After the war, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University and received a

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in 1873 and a

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in 1892. He also received the Phi Beta Kappa key. He graduated from

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(1874) and worked as the owner of a bookstore. He entered

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in 1885 and graduated in 1888. He then opened an Ophthalmology office in Philadelphia. During that time he invented the cemented

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. He was the first president of the Association of Medical Librarians (now the

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). He served from 1898 to 1901. After twenty years of practice, he moved to

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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

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, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning *Biographic Clinics (1904)-Volume II – The Origin of Ill Health of

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, Parkman, Jane Welch Carlyle, Spencer, Whittier, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, and

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*Biographic Clinics (1904)-Volume III – Influence of Visual Function Upon Health *Concerning Lafcadio Hearn (with Laura Stedman) (1908) *Righthandedness and lefthandedness (1908) *The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary (with R J E Scott) (1910) *The Infinite Presence (1910)

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