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Roberts Bartholow was born on November 28, 1831, in New Windsor, Maryland.
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Roberts Bartholow was born on November 28, 1831, in New Windsor, Maryland.
He attended Calvert College in his hometown, and graduated in 1848 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
In 1855, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the United States Army and during the next four or five years saw considerable active service in the West in the troubles with the Mormons and Indians. During the Civil War he was on duty in various military hospitals; wrote A Manual of Instruction for Enlisting and Discharging Soldiers (1863), which was the standard authority for many years; and also wrote a book entitled Qualifications for the Medical Service. In 1864 he resigned from the army and began the practise of medicine in Cincinnati, receiving the appointment of professor of medical chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio. He soon acquired a large practise but nevertheless found time to establish and edit a medical journal, the Clinic.
In 1867, he was transferred from the chair of chemistry to that of materia medica. In 1874, he aroused a great sensation by publishing in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences the report of a case of malignant tumor of the scalp and skull in which the brain had been exposed by the progress of the disease. With the full consent of the patient, who realized that he was fatally ill, Bartholow applied electric stimulation to various areas of the exposed brain in order to corroborate the results obtained by Hitzig and Ferrier in lower animals.
Although his experiments confirmed the observations of these investigators, they resulted in serious damage to the patient, who succumbed a few days later from an extension of the cancer producing a thrombus of the longitudinal sinus. This was candidly admitted by Bartholow in his very full report of the affair. His paper raised a perfect storm of disapprobation and protest, but the consensus of opinion finally turned in his favor. He was appointed professor of the practise of medicine in the Medical College of Ohio, but in 1879 resigned to go to Philadelphia as professor of materia medica and therapeutics in Jefferson Medical College. He resigned this position in 1893 because of failing health and eleven years later died at his home in Philadelphia at the age of seventy-two.
Bartholow was a voluminous contributor to periodical medical literature. He wrote no less than four essays which received prizes and after giving up the editorship of the Clinic on his removal to Philadelphia he became one of the editors of the Medical News. His Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1876) went through eleven editions, and eight editions were published of his Treatise on the Practise of Medicine (1880).
He is best known for his experiments involving a 30-year-old patient named Mary Rafferty. Rafferty was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital in 1874 with a 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) hole in her skull caused by a cancerous ulcer. Bartholow experimented with applying current to Rafferty's exposed dura using needle electrodes. His report detailed the first observations of how electrical stimulation of the brain affects motor functions of the body, but many ethical concerns were raised about the way in which he carried out his experiments.
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He married Maria Walker in 1862.
