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Dr. Dunster's Death

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
May
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
Obituary
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Dr. Edward S. Dunster died at his home, on División street, at abont six o'clock lastevening. He had not been in good health for some time. Death resulted from pneumonía, complicated with a number of diseases. He was professor of obstétrica and diseases of women and children in the medical department of the University, highly esteomed by his friends, his associates, his students, and the medical professioii, in which he had attained eminence. Dr. Dunster was born in Maine, Sept. 2, 1834. He graduated fiom Harvard College, in 1856, with high honors. He graduated from the New York College of Medicine and Surgery in 1859, receiving the highest prize for proiiciency in his studies. In 1861 he became assistant surgeon in the Union army, and later was appointed medical inspector. He was the editor of the New York Medical Journal from 1866 to 1871, and professor of obstetrics in the Vermont Medical College. For five years he occupied the same chair in the Long Island College Hospital, and in 1873 he was appointed to the same chair in the University here. He was prominent in the American Medical Association, and had written several medical works. His loss will be deeply feit in the faculty and by the students, to whom he had endeared himself, but most of all by his wii'e and three daughters.