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George Otis was born on November 12, 1830, in Massachusetts. He was a descendant of John Otis of England, who settled in Hingham, Massachussets, about 1631. His great-grandfather was a physician of Scituate, Massachussets; his grandfather was a Boston merchant with an interest in literature; his father, also named George Alexander Otis, was a lawyer, who in 1830 married Anna Maria Hickman, daughter of a Virginian. In 1831 the elder Otis died of tuberculosis.
George Otis attended the Boston Latin School, and later Fairfax Institute in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was prepared for college. Entering Princeton in 1846 as a sophomore, he received his bachelor's degree in 1849 and M. A. in 1851. At college he displayed a special fondness for literature. He studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. F. H. Deane of Richmond, Virginia, where his mother resided. In the fall of 1849 he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which school he received the degree of M. D. in 1851.
After his graduation, George went to Paris, expecting to specialize in ophthalmic surgery, but he found general surgery more attractive. The rioting that marked Louis Napoleon's coup d'état in 1851 gave him opportunities to see military surgery and the work of such masters as Velpeau, Roux, and Jobert. He returned to the United States in 1852 and settled in Richmond. In April of the following year, he founded the Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, and made it an excellent periodical, notable for its translations and abstracts from the French. Meanwhile he was not prospering, and in 1854 he removed to Springfield, Massachussets, from which place he acted as a corresponding editor of the Journal until the close of 1859. In Springfield he attended more closely to private practice, and was more successful.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War Otis was appointed surgeon of the 27th Massachusetts Volunteers, and was mustered into the Federal service on September 14, 1861. He accompanied the regiment South and served with it in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. For a few months, early in 1863, he was on detached service in the Department of the South. Here he attracted the notice of Surgeon Charles H. Crane, medical director, which notice later led to his assignment to the duty which proved to be his great work for the last sixteen years of his life. On July 28, 1863, he was granted twenty days' leave of absence because of his wife's serious illness. Reaching home on August 1, he learned that she had died on July 24. Having no near relatives to whom to entrust the care of his small daughters, he placed them in a convent.
Returning to his regiment, George served with it and on detached duty, including duty as a division surgeon, until May 1864, when he was granted sick leave. In June 1864 he resigned his commission as surgeon of the 27th Massachusetts and accepted an appointment as assistant surgeon, United States Volunteers. While in Washington he again met Surgeon Crane, at this time on duty in the surgeon-general's office, who secured his detail as assistant to Surgeon John H. Brinton, United States Volunteers, then curator of the Army Medical Museum and engaged in collecting materials for a surgical history of the war. In August Otis was promoted to the grade of surgeon of volunteers, and in the following October he was ordered to relieve Surgeon Brinton of his duties. These duties Otis continued to perform until his death.
Immediately after the close of the war, under direction of Surgeon-General Barnes, Otis and Surgeon Woodward prepared Reports on the Extent and Nature of the Materials Available for the Preparation of a Medical and Surgical History of the War (1866). It presented an impressive array of data and attracted widespread and favorable notice. In 1866 Otis accepted an appointment as assistant surgeon in the regular army. Meanwhile, he had devoted himself to the study and arrangement of the materials for the surgical history. His Report on Amputations at the Hipjoint in Military Surgery was published in 1867, his Report on Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury, in 1869. These monographs met with general favor from the profession and exalted his reputation as a writer.
The first surgical volume of The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion appeared in 1870. It treated of the special wounds and injuries of the head, face, neck, spine, and chest. It was richly illustrated and contained interesting discussions of the vast amount of material dealt with. The second surgical volume was issued in 1876, and treated of the wounds and injuries of the abdomen, pelvis, back, and upper extremities. It was quite as interesting as the first volume and even larger. Both met with a most favorable reception at home and abroad. During the interval between the appearance of these volumes, and later, Otis wrote many articles, the most important being A Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the Army of the United States from 1865 to 1871 (1871), A Report on a Plan for Transporting Wounded Soldiers by Railway in Time of War (1875); and A Report on the Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack Animals (1877). These were all issued as circulars of the surgeon-general's office.
In 1877 George Otis suffered a stroke of paralysis, and was an invalid thereafter until his death. He continued work, however, and at the time of his death, which his friend, Woodward, says came "as a welcome release from suffering, " was engaged on the third surgical volume, which was later completed under the editorship of Surgeon D. L. Huntington.
George Otis was a founder and editor of the Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal. George Otis' major works: the Extent and Nature of the Materials Available for the Preparation of a Medical and Surgical History of the War (1866); Report on Amputations at the Hipjoint in Military Surgery (1867); Report on Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury (1869); the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870; 1876); Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the Army of the United States from 1865 to 1871 (1871); Report on a Plan for Transporting Wounded Soldiers by Railway in Time of War (1875); and Report on the Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack Animals (1877).
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Concerning Otis' methods of work, one of his assistants made the following comment: "It must be remembered that in order to achieve these various stupendous successes, the work was not all done by Dr. Otis alone. He had under his direct command at the time, in the old Ford's theater on 10th Street in Washington, a great body of skilled clerks, who did nothing beyond collecting, classifying, and arranging the records of the field and post hospitals of the Civil War; so this great mass of material was ever ready for the use of the medical officer in command of that division of the Museum. "
On September 19, 1850, George Otis married Pauline Clark Baury, the daughter of Alfred Louis Baury, an Episcopal clergyman of Newton Lower Falls, Massachussets; they had two daughters.
He was a lawyer.
