Bibliography of the Contributions of George M. Gould, M.D., to Ophthalmology, General Medicine, Literature, Etc
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A New Medical Dictionary: Including All the Words and Phrases Generally Used in Medicine, With Their Proper Pronunciation and Definitions : Based On Recent Medical Literature
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The practitioner's medical dictionary: containing all the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their proper pronunciation, derivation, and definition
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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of Rare and Extraordinary Cases, and of the Most Striking Instances of ... of Medicine and Surgery (Classic Reprint)
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Notwithstanding that every effort has been made to conveniently and satis factorily group the thousands of cases contained in the book (a labor of no small proportions in itself), a complete general index is a practical necessity for the full success of what is essentially a reference-volume, and couse quently one has been added, in which may be found not only the subjects under consideration and numerous cross-references, but also the names of the authors of the most important reports. A table of contents follows this preface.
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George Milbry Gould was born at Auburn, Maine. He was the son of George Thomas and Eliza Ann (Lapham) Gould. He was a descendant of Robert Goold, a native of Somersetshire, England, who emigrated to Hull, Massachusets, in 1665.
In his eighth year, he moved with his father to Salina, Athens County, Ohio.
Education
Gould was educated at the public schools of Ohio.
In 1861, before Gould was thirteen, he enlisted as a drummer boy in the 63rd Ohio Volunteers and served for eighteen months, being discharged on account of ill health; again, in 1864, he enlisted in the 141st Regiment of Ohio Volunteers and served until the disbandment of the regiment.
After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1873, with the degree of B. A. , he attended the Harvard Divinity School, receiving the degree of S. T. B. in 1874, and then studied at the Universities of Paris, Leipzig, and Berlin.
He received the degree of M. D. in 1888 and at once began practice in Philadelphia, specializing in ophthalmology and particularly in the correction of refraction.
Career
Upon his return to the United States, Gould acted for a year as pastor of a Unitarian church in Chillicothe, Ohio, then opened a book and art store in the same town.
In 1885, at the age of thirty-seven, partly in order to discover the cause of his persistent ill health, he relinquished his business career and entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. The following year, in collaboration with L. W. Fox, he published A Compend the Diseases of the Eye (1886).
From 1892 to 1894, he was ophthalmologist to the Philadelphia Hospital. His professional life was tempestuous.
He was president of the American Academy of Medicine in 1895 and a speaker at the Congress of Arts and Sciences at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. In 1887, he wrote to Lafcadio Hearn, who was at that time in the West Indies, an expression of his great admiration of certain of Hearn’s translations.
Hearn replied, and a long correspondence ensued which resulted in the removal of Hearn to the United States. When he called at the doctor’s office in Philadelphia he was invited to become a guest at Gould’s house, an invitation which he readily accepted.
In 1908, after the publication of Elizabeth Bisland’s uncritical biography of Hearn, he issued an analytical volume, Concerning Lafcadio Hearn, with a bibliography by Laura Stedman. He had a marked literary gift, and it was perhaps for his contributions in the fields of medical lexicography and medical journalism that he was most widely known during his lifetime.
He published also a number of works on various phases of ophthalmology. He was editor of the Medical News, 1891-95, and of the Philadelphia Medical Journal, 1898-1900.
In the latter year, he published Suggestions to Medical Writers and in 1901, with the avowed purpose of founding a school of medical journalism, established American Medicine, which he edited until 1906.
His literary and psychological interests found expression in the six volumes of Biographic Clinics (1903 - 09), in which he interpreted such famous personalities as De Quincey, Carlyle, and George Eliot in the light of his favorite theory of eye-strain. He edited The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, a history, and in collaboration with Laura Stedman, grand-daughter of the poet, prepared the Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman.
Gould practiced in Philadelphia from 1888 to 1908, in Ithaca, New York, from 1908 to 1911, and then in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he died.
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Religion
Upon his return to the United States he acted for a year as pastor of a Unitarian church in Chillicothe, Ohio, then opened a book and art store in the same town.
Views
Gould's theories and contentions, particularly in connection with the effects of eye-strain, which he held to be one of the great fundamental causes of ill health, both physical and mental, were regarded by his contemporaries as not only radical but false, though they are today widely accepted; while his brusqueness and inclination to use harsh language in characterizing what he regarded as harmful opposition to his teaching, together with his justifiable criticism of the imperfect procedures of many refractionists, antagonized a number of his fellow specialists and of neurologists.
It is possible that Gould was interested in Hearn merely from a scientific standpoint, and he made every effort to reform the latter’s erratic and erotic character, but he frequently expressed his admiration of Hearn’s literary attainments and there is no doubt that he treated his guest with the utmost kindness and consideration.
Connections
On October 15, 1876, Gould was married to Harriet Fletcher Cartwright of Pomeroy, Ohio.
In 1917 he married Miss Stedman as his second wife.