Author; L. E. Daniell
Published By The Author
Eugene Von Boeckmann, Printer and Bookbinder
1890
Transcribed by: J. Barker
William T. Baird, son of Joseph and
Charlotte
Baird, was born in Portage county, Ohio, April 6th, 1832; was educated
in Ohio
and Illinois, studied medicine with the Medical Faculty of the College
at
Keokuk, Iowa, in 1863-4; attended two courses of lectures in that
institution
and graduated, M. D. in 1865, being the highest in class. Practiced in
Gosport
and Chariton, Iowa, from 1865 to 1875, when he received the appointment
of
Medical Examiner of Pensions with the rank of A. A. Surgeon, U. S. A.,
office
at Washington, D. C. Practiced medicine in Fort Worth, in 1882, and
removed to
Albany, Shackelford county, Texas. Here he had a fine practice, but
owing to
the protracted drought of that section he was broken up and sought a
better
field farther West, removing to El Paso; this step was taken also in
consideration of the health of his two sons, whom he believed to have
incipient
phthisis.
During his residence in Texas Dr. Baird has
given much study to the subject of electro-therapeutics, and was one of
the
prime movers in the organization of the Electro-Therapeutic Association
(at
Waco, in 1884), which association was afterward merged into the section
by that
name in the Texas State Medical Association. On the subject of
electricity in
medicine he has written some good papers; they have been published in
the
medical press of Texas, and in Gaillaird's Medical Journal; the best,
perhaps,
"Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent," having been written for and
published in the American Journal of Obstetrics, at the request of the
editor,
Dr. Paul F. Munde. Since his removal to El Paso, Dr. Baird has
thoroughly
mastered the principles of antisepsis, and applied it in his practice;
looking up
at the same time the study of microscopy and urinary analysis.
Of late years he has not written much for the
press, being engrossed with a large and increasing general practice,
and the
cares of a large family.
He is a member of the several local
medical
societies and of the State Medical Association.
Taking an active interest in the
subject of
electricity in disease he experimented with the agent in almost every
form of
ailment, and especially he was fond of electrolysis. An electrode
specially adapted
to electrolysis in granular conjunctivitis was devised by him, but
never
published, we believe.
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