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Richard Bayley was born in 1745 in Fairfield, Connecticut. His mother's family were undoubtedly Huguenots, who settled at New Rochelle, New York about 1688.
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Richard Bayley was born in 1745 in Fairfield, Connecticut. His mother's family were undoubtedly Huguenots, who settled at New Rochelle, New York about 1688.
About 1766, Fichard Bayley went to New York to study with a fashionable English physician, John Charlton. He also had a good knowledge of French and the Latin classics.
In 1769, Charlton sent Bayley to London, where he remained two years, working under the famous anatomist, William Hunter. On returning to New York, he renewed his connections with Charlton. About this time (1774) his attention was drawn to an epidemic of fatal croup. He carefully examined his patients, making pathological studies of the fatal cases, and clearly differentiated diphtheria from other forms of sore throat. By basing his treatment on his sound knowledge of the pathological process, it is said that he cut the mortality rate of this malignant disease nearly in half. His findings were embodied in a letter to William Hunter (1781).
During the winter of 1775-76 Bayley was again in England, working with Hunter. Returning to America as a surgeon in the English army under Howe, he was stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, where he met Michaelis, the Hessian military surgeon. In 1777, he resigned his army position and returned to New York, where he found his wife in a dying condition. Once again he established himself in New York. In spite of his excellent reputation among physicians, reports soon began to be circulated by the public, no doubt due to Bayley's ardent desire to investigate the pathology of disease, that he had performed cruel experiments upon soldiers in Newport and that he was in the habit of "cutting up" his patients. In 1787, he delivered anatomical lectures in an unoccupied building, using his specimens for demonstration purposes. In this work he was assisted by his son-in-law, Wright Post. Public feeling against him increased; a mob broke into his anatomy room and destroyed all his valuable anatomical and pathological preparations (1788). In spite of his adversities, Bayley persevered with his studies.
In 1792 he was made professor of anatomy, and later of surgery, in the Columbia College medical faculty. His surgery was based upon actual experience and observation. He was the first in this country to amputate an arm at the shoulder joint. He also was an early promoter of the New York Dispensary. His last contribution to medicine was concerned with yellow fever. This dreaded disease appeared in epidemic form in New York soon after the Revolutionary War. Many fled from the city, but Bayley remained, personally attending his cases and making extensive observations. His views were embodied in a book, published in New York in 1796, entitled, An Account of the Epidemic Fever Which Prevailed in the City of New York during Part of the Summer and Fall of 1795. In this volume the disease was clearly described, its seasonal prevalence emphasized, and stress put upon its contagious rather than its infectious nature. About this time Bayley was made health physician to the port of New York and his noteworthy Letters from the Health Office Submitted to the New York Common Council dealt with the epidemiology of yellow fever. He assisted in the early formulation of both the federal and the New York state quarantine laws. But he himself died from yellow fever on August 17, 1801.
Richard Bayley was a cofounder of the New York Dispensary in the Greenwich Village neighborhood. Bayley was the first American surgeon to successfully amputate an arm at the shoulder. He also was among the first who began performing cataract surgery. Bayley served as the first health officer of the Port of New York during the yellow fever epidemy. His work helped discover its epidemiology. Later he published An Account of the Epidemic Fever Which Prevailed in the City of New York during Part of the Summer and Fall of 1795.
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Richard Bayley's first wife was Catherine Charlton, sister of John Charlton. They had three children, including Elizabeth Ann Bayley. After her death he married Charlotte Amelia Barclay. They had four children, but later separated.
