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James G. Mumford was born on December 2, 1863, in Rochester, New York, the son of George Elihu Mumford and Julia Emma Hills, and a descendant of Thomas Mumford, who settled in Rhode Island in 1655.
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Mumford Memoirs: Being the Story of the New England Mumfords From the Year 1655 to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)
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A Doctor's Table Talk
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Harvard Medical School: A History, Narrative and Documentary, 1782-1905
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Clinical Talks On Minor Surgery
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The Practice of Surgery (Classic Reprint)
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One Hundred Surgical Problems: The Experiences of Daily Practice Dissected and Explained: Case History Series
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James Gregory Mumford
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Mumford prepared for college at St. Paul's School, an institution of which he was eventually a trustee, and was graduated by Harvard College in 1885 and the Harvard Medical School in 1890.
Career
After an internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital he settled in practice in Boston as a surgeon. He became a fairly successful surgeon, although he could not be considered an unusual one. For many years he was on the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he did excellent work. He never held more than a minor teaching position at the Harvard Medical School. He wrote eight books, as well as fifty or sixty papers, the great majority of them on surgical subjects.
In 1903 appeared his Clinical Talks on Minor Surgery, in 1905 Surgical Aspects of Digestive Disorders, written in collaboration with A. K. Stone, in 1908 Some End Results of Surgery, and, in 1910, a textbook on The Practice of Surgery, a second edition of which appeared in 1914. In 1911 came a minor book entitled One Hundred Surgical Problems; the Experiences of Daily Practice Dissected and Explained. All these books were sound contributions to American surgery.
Early in his career he also showed a marked interest in the history of medicine and one of his first books, in 1903, was A Narrative of Medicine in America.
Two years later he edited The Harvard Medical School (3 vols. ) , written by Thomas Francis Harrington. In 1908 he published Surgical Memoirs and Other Essays and in 1912 one of the most delightful of his short works, A Doctor's Table Talk. These latter publications were written in a charming, winsome style.
Also Mumford foresaw the establishment of great medical centers, including hospitals and medical schools, and with fulltime teachers upon the staff. He was also interested in providing good medical care for persons of moderate means and in 1910 he planned such a hospital; but the scheme got no farther than its prospectus. The idea was partly realized, however, at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium, New York, where he spent the last two years of his life. His health was never good in the last dozen years of his life, for he suffered from a severe cardiac disease, of which he finally died on October 18, 1914, in Clifton Springs.
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The Story of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement (Classic Reprint)
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The Practice of Surgery (Classic Reprint)
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Surgical Aspects Of Digestive Disorders...
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Clinical Talks On Minor Surgery
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Mumford Memoirs: Being the Story of the New England Mumfords From the Year 1655 to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)
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Surgical Memoirs: And Other Essays
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One Hundred Surgical Problems: The Experiences of Daily Practice Dissected and Explained: Case History Series
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A Narrative of Medicine in America
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The Story of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement (Classic Reprint)
Membership
James G. Mumford was a member of many medical societies and social clubs and he took an active interest in bodies for civic uplift, such as the Economic Club and the Reform Club.
Connections
In 1892, James G. Mumford married Helen Sherwood Ford of Troy, New York; there were no children.
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