James Buckner Luckie

James Buckner Luckie

James Buckner Luckie (born July 16, 1833 in Newton County (Georgia) , † 1908 ) was an American doctor.

Life

James Buckner Luckie had Scottish ancestry. He was the son of William Dickinson Luckie and Eliza Buckner, both of whom were born in Georgia. After his education in Georgia, James Buckner Luckie came to the Gwinnett Institute at the age of 16, which he left again two years later for health reasons. He began training as a doctor; his first teacher was John B. Headrick. In 1853/54 James Buckner Luckie studied in Augusta, later in Philadelphia . He graduated there in 1855 and returned to his homeland, where he began to practice. In 1856 he moved to Orean , Pike County , Alabama . After the outbreak of the civil war , he set up an infantry company for the Confederates , which could not be armed or equipped by the government, so it was dissolved again. James Buckner Luckie but took up the service as an assistant surgeon in Knoxville. He accompanied Kirby Smith and later became the hospitals inspector in Lexington, after which he ran a smallpox vaccination facility for the East Tennessee Army in Knoxville . He later served in the field until the end of the war.

After the war, he settled at Pine Level in Montgomery County and then moved to Montgomery , where he practiced until 1872. He then moved to Birmingham , where he worked during a cholera epidemic .

In 1880 he was elected to the Senate ; he also set up a fire department and an army department in Birmingham. He was a member of the County Medical Society and was an advisor to the State Medical Association.

James Buckner Luckie's first marriage was from 1859 to Eliza Imogen Fielder, who died 13 months after the marriage. With this wife he had a child. In 1866 he married a second time. He had eight children with his second wife, Susan Oliver Dillard.

James Buckner Luckie was a member of the Knights Templar .

Known operations

J. McKnight

James Buckner Luckie performed the first two successful triple amputations in the United States. The first man he operated on, a 21-year-old black man, lost his right hand, left leg and right foot. According to a report from the doctor, he was the victim of a railroad accident. Susan M. Schweik, however, claims that this patient could have been a test subject who had no injuries prior to the amputation. The second patient, 32-year-old J. McKnight, had both legs and one arm amputated. J. McKnight is also said to have been the victim of a railroad accident. Photographs of the two patients have been preserved in the Mothers Museum in Philadelphia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/a/y/Glenn-B-Ray/ODT4-0003.html
2. ↑ http://www.flickr.com/photos/96586445@N00/4373348741
3. ↑ James Buckner Luckie MD, Successfull Simultaneous Triple Amputations for Railway Injuries , in: Annals of Surgery , January / February / March / April / May / June 1889, Volume 9, Issue 6, pp. 145 f.
4. ^ Susan M. Schweik, The Ugly Laws. Disability in Public , New York University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0814740576 , p. 335
5. ↑ http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/misc/mutter.html