Julian  J.  Chisolm  was  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  1830,  and  obtained  the
degree  of  M.  D.  at  the  Medical  College  in  that  city  in  1850.  He  continued
his  studies  in  London  and  Paris  and  then  returned  to  Charleston  and  com-
menced practice.  He  became  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the  Medical  College  of
S.  C.  in  1858.  During  the  late  war  he  received  the  first  medical  appointment
conferred  by  the  state  of  S.  C.  and  also  treated  the  first  wounded  in  that  war
(at  Fort  Sumter).  He  resumed  his  chair  in  1865,  and  in  1S69  removed  to
Baltimore  and  was  elected  Professor  of  Operative  Surgery  and  Clinical  Pro-
fessor of  Diseases  of  the  Eye  and  Ear  in  the  University  of  Maryland.  In  1873
he  gave  up  the  former  department,  the  department  of  Eye  and  Ear  Diseases
being  advanced  to  an  equal  rank  with  the  other  chairs  in  the  Faculty.  Dr.
Chisolm  is  the  author  of  many  articles  and  reports  of  cases,  especially  in  his
specialty.  He  is  a  forcible  and  ready  teacher  and  a  skillful  operator.  He  is
the  senior  surgeon  of  the  Presbyterian  Eye,  Ear  and  Throat  Hospital,  one  of
the  largest  and  best  appointed  institutions  of  the  kind  in  America,  and  also  its


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founder.  While  a  surgeon  in  the  C.  S.  A.  he  wrote  a  Manual  of  Military
Surgery,  which  went  through  several  editions  and  was  the  text-book  of  the
surt^eons  of  the  Southern  Army.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Ophthalmological
Section  of  the  International  Medical  Congress  of  1887.
