Association, having in 1872 been named by the New York delegates for the presidency. He was elected a corresponding and afterwards an honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was one of the vice-presidents of the Medical College in Philadelphia in 1876. He was the author of the articles on pregnancy in "Beck's Medical Jurisprudence," and on Dr. Samuel Bard in "Lives of Distinguished American Physicians and Surgeons." Dr. White co-operated with Bishop Timon in establishing the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity and the Providence Asylum for the Insane. He founded the State Lunatic Asylum in Buffalo, and was first its manager and afterward president. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Historical Society, all of Buffalo; was president of the Church Charity Foundation and of the Buffalo Club. He was an honorary associate of the Gynaecological Society of Boston. Dr. White died at his home in Buffalo, New York, September 28, 1881, and his widow, January 23, 1882.

AUSTIN FLINT was born in Petersham, Mass., October 20, 1812, son of Joseph Henshaw Flint, one of the best known physicians and surgeons in the Connecticut Valley; grandson of Austin Flint, of Leicester, who was a surgeon in the American Revolution; and a great-grandson of Edward Flint, a noted practitioner at Shrewsbury. Austin Flint was a student at Amherst and Harvard colleges, and later at the Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated M.D. in 1833. The first three years after his graduation he practiced at Northampton, Mass., and in Boston, and then removed to Buffalo, New York, where he remained until 1844, in which year he accepted the professorship of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the recently established Rush Medical College, Chicago. However, he only remained there one year, and then returned to Buffalo, where he established the Buffalo Medical Journal, of which he was editor for ten years. In 1847 Dr. Flint, with Drs. James P. White and Frank H. Hamilton, founded the Buffalo Medical College, now the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, and was made Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine, and was the leading teacher up to the time of his resignation in 1852. The following four years he served as Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine in a strong faculty at Louisville, Kentucky, after which he again returned to Buffalo, accepting there the chair of Pathology and Clinical Medicine. During the winters of 1858-61 he filled the professorship of Clinical Medicine at the New Orleans (Louisiana) Medical School, and was attending physician at the Charity Hospital.

Dr. Flint removed to New York City in 1859, and accepted the dual position of Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and visiting physician at Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, and Professor of Pathology and Practical Medicine at the Long Island College and Hospital, but resigned from the latter position in 1868.

He was a voluminous writer, and many of his works were the accepted text-books upon the principles and practice of medicine. His writings did not aim at extensive original research, but rather endeavored to popularize the latest and best in medical thought. "The Lancet" called him the "Watson of America." Dr. Flint was an active member of many leading American medical and scientific societies, and a corresponding member of various similar European organizations. In 1862 he became a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, was its orator in 1868, its vice-president, 1871-72, and president in 1873-74. Dr. Flint retained his membership in the Academy until a short time prior to his death. In 1883 he was elected president of the American Medical Association, was one of the orators at three International Congresses (Philadelphia, 1876, London, 1881, Copenhagen, 1884). It was his suggestion that led to the meeting of the International Medical Congress in this country in 1887, and he was to have delivered the presidential address as the successor of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, but his death in New York, March 13, 1886, intervened. He was the first American to deliver the address in medicine before the British Medical Association, in 1886.

The following is a partial list of his writings: "Practice of Medicine," which ran through several editions, with a sale of forty thousand copies; "Variations in Percussion and Respiratory Sounds," "Clinical Study of the Heart Sounds in Health and Disease," "Physical Exploration and Diagnosis of Diseases Affecting the Respiratory Organs," "A Practical Treatise upon the Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart," "Essays on Conservatism," "Medicine and Kindred Topics," "Phthisis; Its Morbid Anatomy, Etiology, Symptomatic Events and Complications, Fatality and Prognosis, Treatment and Physical Diagnosis, in a Series of Clinical Studies," "A Manual of Percussion and Auscultation," "Clinical Medicine, A Systematic Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease," "Physical Exploration of the Lungs by Means of Auscultation and Percussion," "Medical Ethics and Etiquette," and "Medicine in the Future," which was one of his last works.

FRANK HASTINGS HAMILTON, late of New York, was born in Wilmington, Vermont, September 10, 1813. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1833, and settled in Auburn, New York, removing in 1844 to Buffalo, and thence to New York City in 1862. He devoted himself principally to surgery, in which his notable operations are too numerous for separate mention, and he made many important contributions to the science and art of his chosen branch, including inventions of the greatest value; he was also a pioneer in new methods of practice of surgery acknowledged in leadership both here and abroad. He was a member of the New York State Medical Society (president, 1855); the New York Pathological Society (president, 1866); of the New York Academy of Medicine, of the Medico-Legal Society (president, 1875-76); and an honorary member of various societies. He published many

treatises, some of which reached their sixth edition and were translated into some of the European languages. He was medical inspector in the United States Army in 1863. He resigned the professorship of surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1875, but retained for years the position of visiting surgeon to that hospital and also was consulting surgeon to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, to the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, and various other city dispensaries. Dr. Hamilton was married, in 1834, to Mary Virginia McMurran, of Virginia, and (second) in 1840, to Mary Hart, daughter of Judge O. Hart, Oswego City. He died in New York City, August 11, 1886.

EDMUND RANDOLPH PEASLEE, distinguished pathologist and

surgeon, was born in Newton, N. H., January 22, 1814, son of Hon. James and Abigail (Chase) Peaslee. He entered Dartmouth College in 1832, graduating in 1836, and became a medical student under Dr. Noah Worcester, of Hanover, N. H. He entered the medical school of Yale, and in 1840 received the M.D. degree. After, research work in Europe, he succeeded Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, continuing until 1871, when he was appointed Professor of Gynecology at Dartmouth, which chair he retained until his death. Dr. Peaslee was famed for his skill in gynecology; he wrote many works on ovariotomy and gynecological subjects. He was a prolific writer; his "Human Histology" (616 pp., 1854) brought him much fame, being the first systematic work on that subject in the English language. His "Ovarian Tumors and Ovariotomy" (551 pp., 1872) brought him into international prominence. Dr. Peaslee performed the first successful ovariotomy in New England.

Dr. Peaslee was made LL.D. of Dartmouth College, and was professorially connected with Bowdoin College, Me., New York University, and Albany Medical College. He was president of the American Gynecological Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, Medical Society of the County of New York, New York Pathological Society, New York Obstetrical Society, Medical Journal Association, and the New Hampshire State Medical Society. He died in January, 1878.

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PWARD MOTT MOORE, late of Rochester, was born at Rahway, N. J., July 15, 1814, son of Lindley Murray and Abigail (Mott) Moore. His paternal ancestors were among the first settlers in New Jersey, and on his mother's side they go back to emigrants who came from France after the siege of Rochelle.

He received his degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and after a year at Blockley Hospital and a period at the Frankford Lunatic Asylum he removed in 1840 to Rochester, where he began practice. In 1842 he was called to the chair of surgery in the medical school of Woodstock, Vermont, and lectured there eleven years. He held the same chair at the Berkshire Medical College, Massachusetts, 1853-54; at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, 1854-55, and at the Buffalo Medical College, 1858-83. Dr. Moore was

distinguished for his researches and experiments on the heart's action. In his articles on medical and surgical topics he suggested many original methods of treatment. He was president of the New York State Medical Society in 1873; one of the founders of the American Surgical Association, succeeded Dr. Gross as its president in 1883; was president of the New York State Medical Association in 1886, and president of the American Medical Association in 1889-90. He helped frame the New York State Board of Health Constitution, and was president of the organization, 1880-86. In 1884 he was a delegate to the International Congress of Physicians at Copenhagen; was for many years president of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester and until his decease; also president of the board of trustees of the Reynolds Library; Rochester Public Health Association, and the Red Cross Society of Monroe County; a member of the Rochester Pathological Society, and an honorary fellow of the Rochester Academy of Medicine. For nearly fifty years he was at the head of St. Mary's Hospital staff.

Dr. Moore was married at Windsor, Vermont, November 11, 1847, to Lucy R., daughter of Samuel Prescott, of Montreal, Canada. He died in Rochester, March 4, 1892.

FORDYCE BARKER, of New York City, was born May 2, 1818,

at Wilton, Maine. He was of English descent and the son of a physician. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837, and studied medicine with Dr. Henry L. Bowditch, in Boston, Massachusetts, as also with Dr. Charles H. Stedman, at the Chelsea Hospital, for one year; graduated in 1841, and subsequently studying in Edinburgh and Paris, in which latter city he received the degree of M.D. in 1844.

He began practice at Norwich, Conn., but in 1845 was Professor of Midwifery in the Bowdoin Medical College, and in 1850, having been elected Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women in the New York Medical College, removed to New York City. In 1854 he was made Obstetric Physician to the Bellevue Hospital, holding the office until 1874, and in 1860 became Professor of Clinical Midwifery and the Diseases of Women in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was consulting physician to Bellevue Hospital, to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital; and surgeon to the Woman's Hospital of the State of New York. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine (president, 1879-84); of the New York County Medical Society; of the New York Obstetric Society; of the New York Pathological Society; of the Medical and Surgical Society of New York; of the Medical Society of the State of New York, of which he was at one time president; and of the American Gynaecological Society, of which he was elected the first president in 1876; and honorary fellow of the Royal Medical Society of Athens, Greece; and of the Obstetrical societies of Edinburgh, London, Philadelphia, and Louisville; of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and of several State societies. He contributed to medical literature in the way of papers and lectures, and was besides the author of some other works,

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ENRY WALTER DEAN, late of Rochester, was born in Morrisville, New York, August 22, 1818; educated at Middlebury and Lima, New York; studied medicine at the Geneva Medical College, graduating in 1842, and settled in Rochester. He was a member of the Rochester City Medical Society; of the Monroe County Medical Society; of the New York State Medical Society, of which he was president in 1865; and of the American Medical Association, of which he was a member of the judicial council for several years. He was officially connected with the Rochester City Hospital from its organization until his death, which occurred January 13, 1878. In April, 1843, he married Elizabeth P. Smith.

SAMUEL SMITH PURPLE, one of the founders of the New York Academy of Medicine and its president, 1875-78, was born June 24, 1822, in Lebanon, N. Y., son of Deacon Lyman Smith Purple, and in the seventh generation from Edward Purple, who settled in Haddam, Connecticut, in 1674.

He was educated primarily at the district school of Earlville, N. Y., and in 1841 began the study of medicine under Dr. D. Ransom, proceeding later to the Geneva Medical College, and to the New York University, graduating M.D. from the latter in 1844. Entering general practice in New York City that year, he quickly became prominent among the practitioners of the city, holding many offices in professional societies. He contributed creditably to medical literature, and for ten years or so edited the New York Journal of Medicine. He collected one of the finest medical libraries in the state, and ultimately donated it (over 5,000 volumes) to the New York Academy of Medicine. A bronze tablet in his honor as the founder of the New York Academy of Medicine library" was placed in the Library Hall of the Academy.

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THOMAS D. STRONG, of Westfield, New York, was born at Pawlet,

Vermont, November 22, 1822. His ancestry was English, and were settled in this country in 1640. He was fitted for college at Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vermont, and graduated from the University of Vermont, in Burlington, July, 1848, and also at the medical department of the University of Buffalo, in 1851, settling in Westfield immediately thereafter. He was a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and was president of the Lake Erie Medical Society and of the Chautauqua County Medical Society; president of the New York State Medical Association in 1894. His medical writings were mainly journal contributions. He married, in 1852, Lucy M., daughter of Calvin Ainsworth, Esq., of Williamstown, Vermont.