Dr. Amos Gould Hull

Inventor of the Hull Truss

"DR. AMOS GOULD HULL deserves special mention, as he was the first president of the Oneida County Medical Society. Dr. Hull came to this county in about 1796, and settled in Augusta. In 1804 he moved to New Hartford, where he practiced until 1811, at one period of this time having as a partner Dr. Charles Babcock, who was president of the county society in 1834. In 1811 Dr. Hull moved to Utica, where he practiced until his death in 1833. During his later years he devoted much time to the manufacture and sale of a hernial truss of his own invention. This appliance received the approval of his professional brethren so completely that in 1818 he was awarded certificates of commendation from the Fairfield Medical College and the Oneida County Medical Society. That his advertising and selling of these patented trusses did not interfere with his professional standing is proven by his re-election to the presidency of the county society in 1817, 1818 and 1820."

• Source - History of Oneida County, New York: From 1700 to the Present Time, Volume 1, Part 2, page 394, by Henry J. Cookinham

"Dr. Amos G. Hull, 1775, of New Hartford, N. Y.,and New York City, son of Dr. Amos Hull, was married to Lydia Cook, daughter of Aaron Cook of Wallingford, Conn. As early as 1798 he was practicing in Oneida County. The Medical Society of Oneida County was organized at a meeting held at Rome. July I, 1806, which was attended by 29 physicians, and at which Dr. Amos G. Hull was elected its first president. About 1822 he moved to New York City."

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"Dr. Amos G. Hull, a well known and influential doctor/surgeon/inventor of the time in New York; was the pioneer physician of Paris Hill, New York and New Hartford, New York and afterwards, in 1811, in Utica, New York.

He was the inventor of the Patent Hinge Truss.

One of the earliest and best remembered surgeons of the county was Dr. Amos G. Hull. In 1798 he was practicing in New Hartford. In the year mentioned, with a zeal in behalf of science that was characteristic of a young and ambitious practitioner, he was alert in obtaining for purposes of dissection the body of the first criminal of the county convicted for murder. And though on the morning of the day appointed for the execution the criminal was found dead in her cell at Herkimer jail, having hanged herself with the expectation that she could thus evade the whole of her sentence, yet, says Judge Jones, in this she was mistaken, for science had its subject. On the organization of the Oneida County Medical Society in 1806 Dr. Hull took part therein and was elected its first president. Four years later we find him announcing that he has fitted up an establishment next door to the Coffee House in Utica for the sale of mineral waters.

The sale of Ballston and Saratoga salts in solution, which he would seem to have been the first to introduce into the village of Utica, he continued some years longer in his office on Main street, adding thereto the practice of electricity and galvanism. A specialty that absorbed much more of his attention was the manufacture and sale of hernial trusses. These he first advertised in March, 1817, but continued to modify and improve so long as he remained in the village. They were commended by his medical brethren as well as by several individuals of intelligence and standing, and were in general use among those requiring such appliances, being, in fact, almost the sole truss employed in this vicinity. Personally Dr. Hull was amiable and upright, a Methodist in religious belief and an influential member of that body, beloved by his patients, and a friend of every child who knew him. Rather short of stature, quick and impulsive in manner, neat in attire, he as withal a little vain of his appearance, and looked to it that the knee-buckles which confined his silk stockings were each day duly polished. His earliest partner in Utica was Dr. Ezra Williams, with whom he remained until September, 1816. In September, 1821, he was bought out by Dr. Theodore Pomeroy and after a brief association with him removed to New York.

Memorial History of Utica, N.Y. From its Settlement to the Present Time, page 109, Edited by M. M. Bagg, M.D."

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