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Swan Moses Burnett was born on March 16, 1847 in New Market, Jefferson County, Tennessee, the son of Dr. John M. and Lydia (Peck) Burnett.
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Swan Moses Burnett was born on March 16, 1847 in New Market, Jefferson County, Tennessee, the son of Dr. John M. and Lydia (Peck) Burnett.
His medical education was begun in the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, which he attended in 1866-67, and was continued at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City during 1869-70, from which institution he received his degree in medicine.
He first located in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was a general practitioner from 1870 to 1875. In 1875, tiring of the demands made upon him by general practise, Burnett left Knoxville and went abroad, spending the major portion of two years in London and Paris preparing himself in ophthalmology and otology, in which he specialized upon his return to America in 1876. He now located in Washington, D. C. , with which city the rest of his professional activities were connected.
In 1878 he was appointed lecturer in ophthalmology and otology, and in 1883, clinical professor in these subjects in the Medical School of Georgetown University, attaining full professorship in 1889. He was likewise connected with the teaching staff of the Washington Postgraduate Medical School.
He was a member of the staff of the Dispensary & Emergency Hospital, and of the Children's, Providence, and Episcopal Eye, Ear & Throat Hospitals. With Dr. Louis Marple, Dr. James E. Morgan, and others he founded the Emergency Hospital in 1881, and established the Lionel Laboratory as a memorial to a son who died in childhood. He was a skilful operator and a teacher of no mean ability. At the time of his death he possessed the largest individually owned medical library in Washington.
Swan Moses Burnett was a physician whose skills as a surgeon and researcher earned him the respect of his peers in colleagues. One of his notable achievements was that he devised an ophthalmoscope with a rack for holding the correcting lenses of the observer while making an examination. The large ophthalmic field among the colored population of Washington afforded him countless opportunities for making original observations among these people, and his minor writings contain diagnostic and therapeutic points concerning the African-Americans that heretofore had not been recorded. Burnett also contributed several books to medical literature, including a translation of E. Landolt's Manual of Examination of the Eyes (1879); A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Astigmatism (1887); The Principles of Refraction in the Human Eye, based on the Laws of Conjugate Foci (1904); Study of Refraction from a New Viewpoint (1905); the section on "Diseases of the Conjunctiva and Sclera, " in W. F. Norris and C. A. Oliver, System of Ophthalmology (1898); the section on "Diseases of the Cornea and Sclera" in De Schweinitz and Randall, American Textbook of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat (1899).
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Burnett was a member of many prestigious organizations which included: the Anthropological Society; the American Ophthalmological and Ontological Society; the Washington Academy of Sciences; and of the Philosophical Society.
Burnett had a kind and open manner and a clear and concise lecturing ability that made him a compelling speaker and an impressive teacher
In 1873 he married Frances E. Hodgson, who subsequently became well-known as the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The first Mrs. Burnett obtained a divorce from him in 1898, and in March 1904 he married Margaret Brady of Washington.
1849–1924
1876–1937
1852–1929
1874–1890
1811–1880
Burnett was also associated with Dr. John S. Billings in the production of the National Medical Dictionary (1889).
