Joseph Adam Gallup, an American physician and author, born in Stonington, Conn., March 30, 1769, died in Woodstock, Vt., Oct. 12, 1849. He received a good education, and in 1798 graduated in medicine at Dartmouth college. He practised a few years in Hartland and Bethel, Vt., whence he removed to Woodstock in January, 1800. His first Writings appeared in 1802 in the"Vermont Gazette," published at Windsor, and attracted much attention. From 1820 to 1823 he was president of the Castleton medical academy, and was also for several years a lecturer in the medical department of the university of Vermont. He established the clinical school of medicine at Woodstock, and delivered his first course of lectures there in the spring of 1827. This school afterward became the Vermont medical college, and was incorporated in 1835. In 1815 he published Sketches of Epidemic Diseases in the State of Vermont," to which are added Remarks on Pulmonary Consumption," which was republished in England. He published in 1822Pathological Reflections on the Supertonic State of Disease," besides other pamphlets, and in 1839 his more considerable work in 2 vols., entitled "Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine."