BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
OF 
DR, SAMUEL EDWIN MILLIKEN. 
[Reprint from Physicians and Surgeons of America.] SAMUEL EDWIN MILLIKIN. MILLIKEN, Samuel Edwin, New York 
city, born December 2, 1865, at Mansfield, Tex., 
is the son of Samuel Ramsey and Annie Henrietta 
(Campbell) Milliken, formerly of Paducah, Ky. ; 
grandson of William Milliken, born in Orange 
county, N. C. 
Samuel E. Milliken was educated at the Add- 
Ran College, Throp’s Spring, Tex., and at the 
Throp’s Spring Commercial College; commencing 
the study of medicine in 1884, in that town, under 
Dr. R. M. Oates, afterward was under the precep- 
torship of Dr. David W. Yandell and Dr. John A. 
Ouchterlony, Louisville, Ky. ; attended two courses 
of lectures at the University of Louisville, Medical 
Department, and was graduated March 1, 1887, 
being one of ten to pass the highest examination 
in all the branches. 
Dr. Milliken was physician to Sts. Mary and 
Elizabeth Hospital, Louisville, for one year follow- 
ing graduation ; and house surgeon to the Hospital 
for Ruptured and Crippled, New York city, one 
year. September 1, 1889, he commenced the 
private practice of medicine in New York city. He 
has been lecturer on surgery and chief of clinic in 
the New York Polyclinic since 1891 ; attending 
surgeon to the Randall’s Island Hospital since 
1894; surgeon-sn-chief to the New York Infirmary 
for Crippled Children since 1894; and assistant 
surgeon to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, 
1889-92. 
Dr. Milliken devotes his attention to surgical 
diseases of children and to orthopedic surgery. 
He was one of the first Americans, 1890, to per- 
form Bassini's operation for the radical cure of 
inguinal hernia; in 1893, originated a method of 
tendon grafting for deformities resulting from 
infantile paralysis; and in 1893 devised the ham- 
mock method of applying plaster-of-Paris jacket. 
He is the author of articles on “ Radical Cure of 
Inguinal Hernia f Medical Record, 1892; “Treat- 
ment of Hydrocele by Carbolic Acid Injection,” 
Annals of Snrgery, 1891 ; “Diagnosis and Treat- merit of Hernia in Children,” New York Polyclinic, 
1893; “Ingrowing Toe-Nail,” ibid., 1893; “A 
Review of the Operative Treatment for the cure of 
Inguinal Hernia,” read before the Pan-American 
Medical Congress, 1893, and published in the 
Pacific Medical Journal, 1893; “Pott’s Disease 
of the Spine in Children,” International Journal 
of Surgery, January, 1894; and “ Radical Cure of 
Varicocele,” Texas Medical Journal, January, 1894. 
Dr. Milliken has edited La Revista Medico 
Ouirurgica Americana since 1892, and has been 
associate editor of the Rhode Island Medical 
Science Monthly since 1893. He is a member of 
the American Medical Association; of the Ameri- 
can Public Health Association; of the New York 
State Medical Association; of the New York 
County Medical Association ; of the Pan-American 
Medical Congress: honorary member of the Texas 
State Medical Association; member of the Avon 
Shakespeare Club; of the New York Southern 
Society; of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans; 
and has been first lieutenant and assistant surgeon 
of the National Guard of the state of New York 
since 1894. 
Married, October 3, 1894, Miss S.dlie Haynes, 
daughter of ex-Lieut-Gov. Barnett Gibbs, of 
Texas.