[ [12] Jacob Fishback was a Trustee of Transylvania in 1801 and up to 1807. (See Records.)
[ [13] See Records of Transylvania University, 1809.
[ [14] An able biographical sketch of him by his son, Joseph Buchanan, also celebrated, was published in Collins' History of Kentucky, first edition.
[ [15] According to Doctor C. C. Graham he held that these two chairs should be inseparable.
[ [16] Now the site of the golf links at the termination of North Broadway.
[ [17] This was before the use of anesthetics in surgery, it must be remembered.
[ [18] Did he not, in this preliminary preparation of his surgical patients, unwittingly render them safe from the microbes of disease, thus practically securing for them the benefits of more modern scientific discovery?
[ [19] March 28, 1828, Doctor Dudley was elected President, pro tem., in the interval between the unanimous election of Reverend Alva Woods, D. D., February 7, 1828, and his installation October 13, 1828.
[ [20] "He contracted poison in performing a surgical operation, from which he suffered greatly and never recovered. He died suddenly after about two hours of illness, at a quarter to one on Thursday morning, January 20, 1870, of apoplexy. In his relations of son, husband, father, master and friend it is believed he has left no better man." (Extract from a short obituary by his brother, Reverend Thomas P. Dudley.)
[ [21] Doctor C. C. Graham says: "What few private students there were in Lexington went from shop to shop (at that day so called) and got three only, Dudley, Richardson, and eccentric Overton to give us a talk." (Letter to Doctor Peter.)