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KNIGHT, James, physician, born in Taneytown, Frederick County, Maryland, 14 February, 1810; died in New York city, 24 October, 1887. He was educated at St. Mary's college, Maryland, and was graduated at Washington medical college, Baltimore, in 1832. He settled in New York city in 1835, and in 1840 devoted himself to orthopedic surgery. In April, 1863, he gave up his private dwelling for a hospital, and established the New York society for the relief of the ruptured and crippled. In 1870, the society haying completed a hospital of its own, he was appointed physician in charge. He invented a truss and a life-saving apparatus for use in heavy surf. Dr. Knight was a member of various medical, scientific, and benevolent societies, and the author of "Improvement of Health of Children and Adults by Natural Means" (New York, 1875): "Orthopedia, or a Practical Treatise on the Aberrations of the Human Form" (1874)" and "Static Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent" (1882).
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