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Title: Life and letters of Dr. William Beaumont, including hitherto unpublished data concerning the case of Alexis St. Martin
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Myer, Jesse S. (Jesse Shire), 1873-1913
Subjects: Beaumont, William, 1785-1853 St. Martin, Alexis, 1797?-1880
Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby company
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gh Republican, December 1, 1819, announc-ing the discontinuance of practice. ization of the medical corps of the army, and his friend and militarycomrade. Dr. Joseph Lovell, had been chosen surgeon-general.Though Lovell was not yet thirty years of age, he had shown, in hisable reports as hospital surgeon and medical director of the north-ern division, mature thought and a keen understanding of the med-ical needs of the army. He proceeded at once to surround himselfwith a corps of capable assistants, and showed his high regard forBeaumonts ability by offering him a position in the surgeon-gen-erals office. The first of Beaumonts letters1- on file in the depart- 31 Clipping from a Green Bay paper (no date) of an article by Mrs. ElizabethSmith Martin. ^Victor C. Vaughan. (Physician and Surgeon. December. I.hi:;. page 544.) Acareful search of the files of the surgeon-generals office made by me in May.1911, failed to disclose the original letter. 70 Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont
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1812 1820—Reenters the Anna 71 merit, dated at Plattsburgh, December 18, 1818, expressed thanksfor the offer of a $1,000 clerkship, which on first thought he ac-cepted, but afterward declined. Clerical work was not compatiblewith his ideas of activity. The new order of things, however, ren-dered active service in the medical corps of the army much moreattractive than it had been during the years of his previous service,lie had already been commissioned surgeon of the Fifteenth Regi-ment of cavalry of the New York militia by Governor DeWitt Clin-ton on April 6, 1819. Beaumont had always remained a stanch anti-Federalist, and was naturally a great admirer of Governor Clinton.In an issue of the Plattsburgh Republican of about this period hisname a))pears in a list of 300 indorsing Clintons administration andurging his reelection. With the establishment of the new gradesin the regular army, he made application for readmission to theservice. He evidently received prompt assurance of favo

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