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DUGAS, Louis Alexander, physician, born in Washington, Georgia, 3 January 1806. His parents were of French ancestry, and emigrated from Santo Domingo, W.I. He was educated at home studied medicine with Dr. John Dent, and in 1827 was graduated at the medical department of the University of Maryland. After attending lectures in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and spending several years in study in Europe, he settled in Augusta, Georgia, in 1831. In 1832 he united with five others in founding the Medical College of Georgia, in which he still holds the professorship of surgery.
In 1869 the University of Georgia conferred the degree of LL D upon him. For many years he was president of the Medical society of Augusta, and he has been president of the Medical association of Georgia. During the civil war he was volunteer and consulting surgeon of military hospitals. From 1851 till 1858 he was editor of the "Southern Medical and Surgical Journal." His most important contributions to the literature of his profession are those on "Rheumatism," "Ophthahnia,"" Colica Pictonum," "Convulsions,"" Surgical Operations during Mesmeric Insensibility," " Use of Quinine in Fevers," "Diagnosis of Shoulder Dislocations," "Fractures of the Scapula," "Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia" (1874'6), and "Pathological Peculiarities of Negroes."
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