New York, the metropolis - its noted business and professional men. (1893) (14802210563)

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Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization



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ascinating study and is looked uponas the most noble profession, as capable of doing the mostgood to humanity. L. Duncan Bulkley, A.M., M.D., is a case in point. Heis one of New Yorks most successful ))h)sicians and is theforemost dermatologist in the United States. His fatherbefore him, 13r. Henry D. Bulkley, was a jjhysician and aprominent one of his time. He died in 187 2, and the NewYork Medical Journal of the time says of him : The death of Dr. Bulkley occurred on the 4lh of Jan-uary, 1872. For nearly half a century he has been identifiedwith the medical profession of this city and might beconsidered as one of the links which connected the physi-cians of old New York with those now living among us. The elder Dr. Bulkley was a distinguished man. He wasa graduate of Yale, an extensive traveller in Eurojie in theac()uisition of professional knowledge, lecturer of a highorder, editor of the New York Medical Times, President ofthe New York .Academy of Medicine, and also of the Medical
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L. D. BULKLEY. Society of the County of New York, and in fact he wasconnected in one shape or another with all that was honor-able and progressive in an honorable profession. He wasthe first lecturer on dermatology in the country. His son is, for his age, no less distinguished. He wasborn in this city on January 12, 1845, and graduated fromYale in the class of 1866. Three years later—1869—hereceived the degree of M.D. from the College of Physiciansand Surgeons and of A.M. from his Alma Mater. Afterleaving the College of Physicians and Surgeons he was forsome time house physician in the New York Hospital, andsubsequently traveled in Europe and studied dermatologyin London, Paris and Vienna. In 1870 Dr. liulkley wasawarded the Stevens Triennial Prize of the College ofPhysicians and Surgeons of New York, for an essay on Thermometry in Disease, and the Alvarenga prize by theCollege of Physicians of Philadelphia, in 1891, for an essayon Syphilis Insontium. He is well known as the trans