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DUHAMEL, William, physician, born in Maryland in 1827; died in Washington, D. C., 15 August 1883. He was educated at St. Mary's, Maryland, was graduated at Maryland University of medicine in .1849, and practiced near Washington, D. C., for several years in partnership with Dr. Bayne. In 1852 he was appointed adjunct professor of surgery in Georgetown medical College. Dr. Duhamel was called to attend the president of the United States in 1859, and continued to visit all the occupants of the White House during three presidential terms. He also served as chief physician for ten years to the U. S. prisons in the District of Columbia, and was a member of several learned societies, in which he occupied important offices. He contributed valuable articles on the use of chloroform and other professional subjects to the Stethoscope,' of Virginia, and to the ' New Jersey Medical Journal, and wrote a treatise on the "National Hotel Disease" (at Washington).
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