Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — DR. MOSES GUNN DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DR. MOSES GUNN DEAD.

The Brilliant Surgeon’s Career Cut Short by Maglignant Disease. The death of Dr. Moses Gunn of Chicago, says a dispatch from that city, was a

severe blow to the medical profession. Like Dr. Gross of Philadelphia or Dr. Slay ter of Buffalo, he was what is called “a giant” in the profession, known far and wide. He died of a malignant form of liver disease. Dr. Gunn was celebrated

as much for his clean and honorable conduct toward his brother professionals as for the rapidity and accuracy with which he diagnosed all cases brought before him. His profound, rapid judgment was considered something wonderful, and all who knew him remember him best for that. He was regarded by many of the leading surgeons as the best man in the. profession to call in for consultation, and his clear, quick judgment was always invaluable on such occasions. Dr. Gunn was never in greater glee; than when, surrounded by his students, he was at work upon a patient, and he always had a joke which aided in fixing wharf; was difficult of remembrance in his students’ memories. His droll stories "were as familiar to the rising medical profession as “household words.” His most technical lectures fairly bubbled over with wit and originality, and it was contrary to his very nature ever to become tedious. Whenever his familiar “that reminds me of something” was spoken his class knew at once ■that some rich fun was in store. Dr. Gunn had been in Chicago twenty years, practicing nothing but surgery, at which he was a recognized authority. All this time he had held the chair of surgery at Bu-<h Medical College. The graduates from that institution can testify to his superiority as an instructor. Dr. Gunn was born in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1832. He was a beardless youth when he graduated from the old college at Geneva, N. Y., in 1846. But he was an ambitious youth and determined to migrate. He landed at Ann Arbor, Mich., a few days later, the possessor of an innocentlooking pair of trunks. In one were his few books and clothing, while the other contained the body of a colored man which he intended to dissect before the eyes of the Western doctors. He soon gathered quite a class about him. Ann Arbor University had no medical college at that time, but the labors of Dr. Gunn opened the eyes of the faculty, and a department was soon established, with Dr. Gunn in the chair. The class of work was limited, and after the war he came to Chicago and rapidly advanced to the front of the profession here.

MOSES GUNN.