Eulogy Of General Zachary Taylor, Late President Of The United States (1850)
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An Attempt to Investigate Some Obscure and Undecided Doctrines in Relation to Small-Pox, Varioloid and Vaccination (Classic Reprint)
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The Practical Methods of Ventilating Buildings: Being the Annual Address Before the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 31, 1848. with Appendix On Heating by Steam and Hot Water
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Luther Vose Bell was an American physician who was one of the organizes of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII).
Background
Luther Bell was descended from Robert Le Bel, a Norman, who migrated to Scotland in the eleventh century. A descendant, Matthew Bell, born about 1650, moved to Londonderry, Ireland. His son, John, emigrated to Londonderry (now Derry), New Hampshire, in 1720. The latter's son, John Bell, senator, and his grandson, Samuel, chief justice, governor, and senator, were both New Hampshire products. Luther Vose, fifth child of Samuel's first wife, Mehitable (Dana) Bell, was born on December 20, 1806, in Francestown, New Hampshire.
Education
Luther went to school at local institutions, and entered Bowdoin College at twelve. Graduating in 1823, he immediately began the study of medicine in New York City under his elder brother, Dr. John Bell. Soon he moved to Hanover and in 1826 he received his M. D. from Dartmouth. Too young to practise, he spent a year in a "Commercial Emporium, " where he doubtless picked up some knowledge of men and affairs.
Career
Starting practise in Chester, New Hampshire, Luther led the strenuous life of a country doctor and became deeply interested in the needs of the insane. In 1835 and 1836 he was elected representative and persuaded the state legislature to establish an institution for their proper care. He was called in 1836 to be physician and superintendent of the McLean Hospital for the Insane at Charlestown, Massachussets. Here he took a lively interest in medical and administrative problems. His annual reports are models, and in them he discusses and illuminates various psychiatric subjects. He resigned on account of ill health after twenty years of admirable service.
Bell early showed literary aptitude. In 1835 he wrote a Boylston Prize Essay on New England diet in which he sagely remarks "the Yankee Citizen encounters his dinner as he would any other necessary work that has to be accomplished. " In 1848 he wrote On a Form of Disease Resembling Some Advanced Stages of Mania and Fever. Hereafter this type of insanity was recognized as Bell's Disease or Bell's Mania. After his retirement from hospital work he was often called upon as a medico-legal expert. As a witness he was concise and practical and carried great weight with judge and jury.
During his active years Bell frequently appeared as a lyceum lecturer. His talks, usually on mechanical problems, "showed a bent of mind adapted to the conveyance of profitable instruction in a lively way. " At the outbreak of the Civil War, in spite of poor health, he at once enlisted. He was appointed surgeon to the 11th Massachusetts Regiment but was soon promoted and became Hooker's brigade surgeon. In February 1862, at Budd's Ferry, Maryland, he died, probably from some complication of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Achievements
Luther Bell was a well-known physician of his time who served as superintendent of the McLean Hospital for the Insane at Charlestown, Massachussets. Bell was one of the thirteen mental hospital superintendents who met in Philadelphia in 1844 to organize the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), the first medical specialty society in the United States.
Bell also wrote: Boylston Prize Essay on New England diet (1835); On a Form of Disease Resembling Some Advanced Stages of Mania and Fever (1848).
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Politics
Luther Bell was always an adherent of the Whig party. In 1850 he was an executive councillor to Gov. Briggs of Massachusetts. As a delegate to the Whig national convention of 1852 he advocated the candidacy of Daniel Webster.
Membership
Luther Bell was a founding member of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane.
Connections
Luther Bell was married to Frances Pinkerton, daughter of James Pinkerton, of Derry, New Hampshire, in 1834.
