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adopted. In 1817 a medical school was
added to the Transylvania University, and
he was elected to the chairs of anatomy and
surgery. Dr. Dudley condemned blood-
Jetting, taking advanced ground in the mat-
ter. His skill with the knife soon gatned
him a national reputation and his success in
lithotomy was so great that in England he
was declared to be **the lithotomist of the
nineteenth century." He operated for stone
in the bladder two hundred and twenty-five
times and lost only six patients. Believing
that Asiatic cholera was a water-borne dis-
ease, during the first great epidemic in this
country (1832) he and his family drank
cistern instead of well water, and were the
only ones in Lexington to escape the dis-
ease. He contributed valuable essays to
the 'Transylvania Journal of Medicine.*' He
was married, in 182 1, to a daughter of Major
Peyton Short. He died in Lexington, Ken-
tucky, June 20, 1870.
Scott, Winfield, was born near Peters- burg, Virginia, June 13, 1786, son of Wil- liam and Ann Mason Scott, and grandson of a Scotch soldier, who engaged in the battle of Culloden, where he lost a brother and fled to America, settling in the neigh- borhood of Petersburg, where he practiced law. Winfield, after attending a high school in Richmond, matriculated at the College of William and Mary, and after a two years* course took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in Richmond, in 1806, removed to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1S07, where he was made captain of light artillery in the United States army, and was ordered to New Orleans in 1808, where Gen. Wilkinson, after being unsuccessful in winning the youthful officer over to the viA-.n
questionable scheme of Burr, caused his
court-martial and suspension for twelve
months. Captain Scott obtained rcmis-
sance of sentence after three months,
,and was complimented by a public din-
aier. June 18, 1812, he was promoted to
lieutenant-colonel in the Second Artillery,
and ordered to the Niagara frontier; and at
Queenstown Heights, October 13, 1812, he
v*ras taken prisoner and exchanged after a
lew months. He was promoted brigadier-
general, March 9, 1814: established a camp
of instruction at Buffalo, July 3, 1814, trans-
ferred his brigade to British soil, and on
July 5 directed the battle of Chippewa, win-
liing a signal victory, as he did at Lundy's
Lane, July 25, where he had two horses
shot under him, was badly wounded and
finally gained the field, capturing Gen. Rial-
land, several other officers, and inflicting a
loss of eight hundred and seventy-eight men
to the British. These, the only victories on
Canada soil, gained for him the rank of
major-general. He removed to Buffalo,
New York, and on his partial recovery was
transferred to Philadelphia- He visited
Europe in 1815, after declining the position
of secretary of war in President Madison's
cabinet, held temporarily by James Mon-
roe. On his return he was given command
of the Atlantic seaboard, with headquarters
in New York, and made his home at Eliza-
beth, New Jersey. He was married, in
^larch, 1817, to Maria, daughter of John
Mayo, of Richmond, \'irginia. He took
part in the Seminole war in Florida, and
agrainst the Creek Indians, 1836-37. Criti-
cisms of his conduct of the campaign caused
his recall in 1837, but a court of inquiry
found no cause for the same, and in 1838
he effected the peaceful transfer of the
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