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READ, EZRA .- Terre Haute (1811-1877). Dr. Read was born on a farm near Urbana, Ohio, 1811, and died in Terre Haute, May 10, 1877, of carcinoma of the stomach. He was graduated from the Athens Univer-
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sity, Ohio, and then from the Medical College of Ohio in 1835. He practiced in Cincinnati for a short time and then left for Texas. He participated in the Texas- Mexican War and was made Surgeon-in-Chief of the Texan army and also of the navy. In the history of the United States the little Texas navy is absolutely unique, and few people now know anything about its existence. Dr. Read located in Paris, Ill., in 1840, and came to Terre Haute in 1844. At this time he found an active Vigo County Medical Society and took an active part in its affairs. During the Civil War he was surgeon for the Twenty-first Indiana Artillery, and later surgeon of the Eleventh Reg. Ind. Cav. He was president of the Vigo County Medical Society for two years, 1874-76. He was postmaster in Terre Haute under President Johnson. He was a great lover of books and accumulated quite a library, especially of the classics. He read Latin, Greek and French with facil- ity and could quote endlessly in the original from Vir- gil, Horace and Homer. He stood high in the profes- sion and was a great friend of the poor. The flags of the city were at half-mast at his death, and the whole community united at the funeral in honoring one who had done so much for them .- Drs. Charles N. Combs and Stephen J. Young, Terre Haute. In 1836, during the Texan war for independence, General Felix Huston and General Albert Sydney Johnston fought a duel. The latter was severely wounded in the hip and inca- pacitated for further service. Dr. Read was the attend- ing surgeon. General Johnston was killed at Shiloh .- G. W. H. K.
REASONER, WILLIAM M. - Sulphur Springs (1828-1887). S. T. 1888, 202.
REEVES, URIAH G .- Clifty (1820-1882). S. T. 18S3, 266.
REILEY, WILLIAM F .- Sardinia (1828-1895). S. T., 1896, 259.
RENNER, JOHN G. E .- Indianapolis (1850-1878). S. T. 1880, 238. Dr. Renner was born in Germany, came to America late in the sixties, graduated from the University of Louisville in 1877, and immediately be-
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gan the practice of medicine in Indianapolis. "On the 27th of August, 1878, he announced his conviction that his path of duty would lead him to the succor of the victims of yellow fever at Memphis, Tenn., and, despite all the remonstrances of friends, the evening of August 29 found him domiciled in Memphis and ready with his share of help for the afflicted. He remained en- gaged in this self-imposed duty, rendering all the aid that stricken humanity could have expected from one man until September 11, when the relief-extending hand was itself paralyzed by the scourge whose rav- ages it had helped to mitigate, and after five days of torture, on Sept. 16, 1878, his light went out and his life was laid as a sacrifice upon the altar of our com- mon humanity."-Dr. I. A. E. Lyons.
RICHARDSON, GEORGE T .- Delphi (1834-1880). S. T. 1881, 238. Dr. Richardson served for a time as a lieutenant in the Civil War. In 1862, and again in 1872, he was elected to the legislature to represent White and Benton counties the first time and Carroll county the second time.
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RICHARDSON, NEHEMIAH .- Vernon (1824-1899). S. T. 1900, 335.
RICHMOND, CORYDON .- Kokomo (1808-1906). Was born in Onondaga, New York, November 22, 1808, and died at Kokomo, October 1, 1906. He was a son of Dr. John L. Richmond. He was a graduate of the Ohio Medical College 1832, and immediately located at Pendleton, where he continued in practice until 1838, when he removed to Indianapolis, where he and his father entered into partnership with Dr. G. W. Mears. In 1844 he visited the Indian Reserve. as it was then called, in Howard County, and, after exam- ining it, decided to locate there. The same season, he and some others built cabins and removed their fami- lies to them, and this was the beginning of the present city of Kokomo. In 1847 he represented Howard and Cass Counties in the legislature. In 1863 he became assistant surgeon in Military Hospital No. 3, Nash- ville, Tennessee, where he remained some time. In March, 1865, he again returned to Nashville and ren-
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dered medical services to colored troops. In 1867 he was elected mayor of Kokomo, and served two years. During his long residence in Kokomo, "he preserved a healthful uniformity of life, never mounting to the heights of fame, nor ever descending beneath the level of true manhood."-See an interesting sketch of his life in Am. Biog. Hist. of Eminent and Self-Made Men of Indiana, Dist. 11, p. 40.
RICHMOND, JOHN L .- Indianapolis (1785-1855). Born in Massachusetts, April 5, 1785, and died at Cov- ington, Indiana, in October, 1855. First practiced medicine at Newtown, Ohio, where he performed a Cesarean operation, April 23, 1827. Possibly this was the first recorded case of Cesarean operation in the United States. He saved the mother but lost the child. See Western Jour. Med. and Physical Sciences, Vol. iii, 485 (1830). See same case, with comments, by G. W. H. Kemper, Indianapolis Med. Jour., Vol. xii, 376. Is mentioned in Churchill's Midwifery (1857), 363, but the author erroneously states that the child was saved.
In the early 30's Dr. Richmond removed to Pendle- ton, Indiana, where he assumed the pastorate of a Bap- tist church and practiced medicine. After a few years he removed to Indianapolis and formed a partnership with Dr. G. W. Mears. In 1842 he was stricken with paralysis, when he abandoned practice and removed to Covington, where he died and was buried. Some years later his body and also that of his wife were reinterred at Lafayette, Ind. See Dr. W. H. Wishard's paper, Trans. 1893, 24, and also in I. M. J., Vol. xi, 199 (January, 1893). Also see interesting letter by Dr. W. N. Wishard, I. M. J., Vol. xxvii, 112 (September, 1908).
ROBBINS, ALFRED H .- Rochester (1826-1906). Was born in Adams County, Ohio, July 4, 1826, and came with his parents to Henry County, Indiana, in 1829; removed to Fulton County in 1836; graduated at the University of Buffalo, in 1850, and began the practice of medicine in Rochester same year. In 1856, and 1860 was elected and represented Fulton County in the State Legislature, serving also at the special ses-
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sion at the outbreak of the rebellion. In 1861 he was elected vice-president of the State Medical Society, and served at session of 1862. Died October 8, 1906 .- Sketch furnished by Dr. M. O. King, Rochester.
ROGERS, JOSEPH H. D .- Madison (1805-1885) . Was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1805. He graduated in medicine at the Transylvania University. He was a colonel in the Texan rebellion, and about 1840, per- manently settled in Madison, where he established .a large practice up to the time of his retirement from active practice about 1875. He was a man of large physique and strong personality, and enjoyed a rather widespread reputation as a surgeon in southern In- diana and northern Kentucky. He died at Madison in 1885. (From a letter of Dr. Clarke Rogers, Logans- port, a grandson.) Dr. Rogers was present at the organization of the State Medical Society in 1849. He was the father of the late Dr. Joseph G. Rogers.
ROGERS, JOSEPH G. (1841-1908). Dr. Rogers was a native of Indiana, and all his medical services were given to the afflicted of his native state. The mention of his name calls up a vision of a Hospital for the Insane. He graduated in medicine in 1864, and was immediately commissioned as an acting assistant sur- geon, United States army, on duty at Madison, Ind. This position he filled until the close of the war. In 1875-76 he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Indiana College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1879 to 1883 he was superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for Insane at Indianapolis. He was Medical Engineer on the Board of Commissioners for Additional Hospitals for Insane from its organiza- tion in 1883 up to the completion of the new hospitals in 1888; at the same time he was Superintendent of Construction for the Northern Hospital (Longcliff), and on its completion was appointed Medical Superin- tendent, a position he held continuously until the date of his death.
Dr. Rogers was the first to make a quantitative chemical examination of the waters of Orange county,
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and suggested the name, "Pluto's Well." He devised a method for preventing the incrustations in boilers which became commercially successful.
He contributed a number of valuable articles on sub- jects relating to the insane. In the Indiana Medical Journal for October, 1901, is a thoughtful article from his pen entitled "Cold as a Cure for Tetanus."
Various other articles on a diversity of subjects have been contributed by Dr. Rogers. Dr. Robert Hessler of Logansport has given (The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, May, 1908, 205) a valuable epitome of the life and professional work of Dr. Rog- ers, from which I have largely extracted this sketch, and to which the reader is referred for fuller informa- tion. Also to Stone, 428. Also a tribute "In Memo- riam," by Dr. Samuel E. Smith, I. M. J., Vol. xxvi, 450.
ROOKER, JAMES I .- Castleton (1833-1896). Dr. Rooker was assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Reg. Ind. Vols. from 1861 to 1863. From 1875 to 1879 he lec- tured on physical diagnosis at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons. He was one of the founders of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1879, and again lectured on physical diagnosis. His papers before the State Society were on "Camp Diarrhea," Trans. 1864, 33; "A Few Thoughts on How to Obtain Practice," 1873, 95; "The Indiscriminate Use of Hypo- dermic Medication," 1877, 89; "The Medical Proper- ties of Fraxinus Americanus," 1886, 48; and "Thirty- three Years a Country Doctor," 1889, 121. For biog- raphy see I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 444. Stone (with por- trait), 428.
ROSE, MADISON H .- Thorntown (1832-1904). S. T. 1905, 456. Dr. Rose graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo in 1861. He was surgeon of the Fifty-third Reg. Ind. Vols. from March, 1863, to April, 1865.
ROSENTHAL, ISAAC M .- Ft. Wayne (1831-1906) . S. T. 1907, 473. Dr. Rosenthal was born in Germany. He practiced medicine in Ft. Wayne continuously for forty-six years. He was a Jew, not narrow, and was loved by all.
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"A curious incident in his life was the fact that he suffered from a purulent otitis media for more than fifty years, caused by the explosion of a gun. He steadfastly refused surgical relief, and finally died from an abscess of the brain with diffuse meningeal infection caused by an extension of the middle ear dis- ease to the temporo-sphenoidal lobe of the brain. If he had consented to the removal of this focus of infec- tion years before he should be living now in a fair state of health."-Dr. G. W. McCaskey. See I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 195.
ROSS, CHARLES A .- U. S. Army (1875-1901). S. T. 1901, 497. Soon after graduation, in order to gain greater surgical experience, he decided to enlist in the army. He successfully passed the rigid examination necessary in August, 1900, and was soon commissioned an assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army and ordered to the Philippines. He had been in the islands only about three months when he was stricken down.
"Dr. Ross died on the fighting line in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. A soldier had been wounded, and Dr. Ross, accompanied by two hospital stewards. went to carry the wounded man to the hospital tent. It was while in the performance of this duty that he was fired upon from ambush, and his young life ebbed away there upon the battle-field while heroically min- istering to one who was fighting for his country."-Dr. C. T. Hendershot.
He was born in Crawford county, Indiana, and had for a short time practiced at Leopold, Perry county ..
ROSS, JONATHAN .- Blountsville. (1828-1888). S. T. 1888, 211. Dr. Ross enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols. and later was promoted to first lieutenant in Company K, and was mustered out at the close of the war with his regiment.
ROSS, JUSTIN P .- Marion (1840-1896). S. T. 1896, 261.
ROUS, HANNAH C .- Vevay (1854-1905). S. T. 1905, 457. Dr. Rous was secretary of the Switzerland County Medical Society from its organization until the year before she died. I never sent her a blank for a
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report on necrology that she did not at once reply, "No death this year," or give the name if any member had died. She deserves this trifling tribute for her faith- fulness.
RUBUSH, DAVID P .- Sharpsville (1847-1904). S. T. 1906, 502. At the age of 16 he left Tennessee and came to Indiana, where he enlisted in the service of his country and was assigned to the Twenty-fifth Independ- ent Battery, Light Artillery, where he served with credit till the close of the civil war, receiving an honor- able discharge. See I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 473. Also Med. and Surg. Monitor (with picture), Vol. vii, 145.
RUNDELL, ALPHARIS E .- Clay county (1850- 1900). S. T. 1900, 499.
SANBORN, PERLEY P .- Angola (1861-1897). 1. M. J., Vol. xv, 380.
SANFORD, JAMES H .- Shelbyville (1838-1903). S. T. 1904, 361.
SCHAFER, ALBERT F .- South Bend (1863-1898). S. T. 1899, 391.
SCHMIDT, ELIZABETH. - Indianapolis (1827- 1904). I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 418.
SCHMIDTZ, CHARLES .- Ft. Wayne (1809-1887). S. T. 1887, 196.
SCHULTZ, OSCAR T .- Mt. Vernon (1848-1890). S. T. 1890, 164.
SCOTT, DANIEL V .- Jeffersonville (1872-1904). S. T. 1904, 363.
SCOTT, GIDEON .- Greentown (1838-1898). S. T. 1898, 388.
SCOTT, WILLIAM .- Kokomo (1831-1895). Dr. Scott was a native of Ohio; a graduate of Rush Med- ical College. In 1881 he accepted the chair of diseases of the throat and respiratory organs in the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, which he filled until 1883. He was then appointed professor of diseases of the rectum and genito-urinary organs, and filled that posi- tion until 1888, when he resigned. For biography see Stone, 460; I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 275.
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SCRAMBLING, WILLIAM H .- Slash, Grant county (1842-1881). S. T., 1882, 196.
SCRIBNER, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS .- New Albany (1800-1868). Born in Massachusetts, Feb. 19, 1800. and died at New Albany, April 16, 1868. Was a mem- ber of the Medical Convention, June 6, 1849.
SCULL, DAVID C .- Lebanon (1839-1897). S. T. 1898, 377. He served three years as a soldier in the Thirteenth Reg. Ind. Vols.
SEATON, WILLIAM H .- Indianapolis (1873-1899). S. T. 1900, 336.
SEVERANCE, LA GRANGE .- Huntington (1839- 1893). S. T. 1893, 256.
SEXTON, HORATIO G .- Rushville (1796-1865). Born in Andover, New Hampshire, Jan. 21, 1796. See p. 77.
SEXTON, MARSHALL .- Rushville (1823-1892). S. T. 1892, 286. Son of the above. Born, lived and died at Rushville. Was surgeon for some months of the Fifty-second Reg. Ind. Vols. Was elected president of the State Medical Society in 1881 and presided in 1882. He contributed the following papers to the State So- ciety: "Case of Dislocation of Femur Upward and Backward, Reduced by Manipulation," Trans. 1869, 31; "Rupture of the Uterus and Vagina, Case -, Recov- ery," Trans.` 1873, 107; and "President's Address, Boards of Health, Medical Legislation, and the Rights and Duties of Physicians Under the Law," Trans. 1882, 1. He is said to have been the first white male child born in Rushville and the first graduate of medicine in Rush county. See memoriam, I. M. J., Vol. x, 182.
SHELLHAMER, CAREY .- Pioneer (1845-1907). S. T. 1907, 494.
SHIDLER, ARTHUR L .- Lakeville (1860-1899). S. T. 1900, 337.
SHIELDS, PLEASANT SCOTT .- New Albany, (1806-1875). Dr. Shields was born near Georgetown, Ind., November 30, 1806, and died at New Albany, January 29, 1875. He remained at the place of his birth until his majority, when he went. to New Albany,
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and entered the office of Dr. Asahel Clapp to study medicine. He returned to Georgetown and practiced for several years. In 1832, he removed to New Al- bany, where he lived until the day of his death, be- loved by all. He was the poor man's friend. Was an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church .- The above written in a neat hand, was furnished me by Mrs. Aresta Nunemacher, aged 81 years, a relative of Dr. Shields .- G. W. H. K.
He was present at the medical convention held at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849.
SHIPMAN, NORBOURN N .- Seymour (1829-1902). S. T. 1902, 423. He contributed an article on "Preter- natural Sleep," Trans. 1892, 146.
SHIRTS, ELMER .- Bloomfield (1861-1908). J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 112.
SHIVELY, JAMES S .- Marion (1813-1893). S. T. 1893, 260. He was born in Morgantown, Va., April 8, 1813. After due preparation for the practice of medi- cine he located in Marion, where he remained until his death. He was respected and honored by all. He was four times elected to serve his constituents in the State Legislature. To him, as joint senator, the profession is indebted for the present law governing the practice of medicine. See Stone, 465, for biography and portrait. I. M. J., Vol. xi, 376.
SHOPTAUGH, SHELTON H .- Princeton (1840- 1898). S. T. 1899, 387.
SHOWALTER, D. T .- Montpelier (1845-1883). S. T. 1883, 272.
SIEBER, JOHN A .- Ferdinand (1853-1883). S. T. 1883, 279.
SIMISON, JOHN .- Romney (1824-1902). I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 134.
SINEX, WILLIAM G .- New Albany (1826-1899). Was born in New Albany, Nov. 27, 1826, and died in the same city, March 25, 1899. He was a graduate of Asbury (Greencastle) College. Graduated at one of the medical schools of Philadelphia. He was one of
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the members of the Medical Convention of 1849 .- Mrs. Olive E. Sinex, Indianapolis, daughter-in-law.
SKIFF, CLARK .- Selma (1826-1888). S. T. 1889, 212.
SLOAN, GEORGE W .- Indianapolis ( 1835-1903) . S. T. 1903, 354. A native of Pennsylvania, he came to Indianapolis as a child in 1837, and remained there until he died. He was not a practicing physician, but was a lecturer on pharmacy in the Indiana Medical College, and in 1879 and 1880 was president of the American Pharmaceutical Society.
He was a first lieutenant in Company B, 132d Reg. Ind. Vols., in the Civil War. See biographical sketch. I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 399; also, ib., Vol. xxii, 246.
SLOAN, JOHN .- New Albany (1815-1898). S. T. 1898, 392. Dr. Sloan was born in Westbrook, Maine, Sept. 15, 1815. Graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837, and located in New Albany in 1838. Here he lived until the date of his death.
"His was a long career. He was in active practice before the days of anesthetics, when calomel was the cure-all and blood-letting a 'fine art.' He was in the prime of manhood when the Civil War came and gave a new impetus to the study of surgery. The afternoon and evening of his life witnessed the advent and con- tinuance of the antiseptic era."-Dr. E. P. Earley.
He was present at the formation of the State Society in 1849, and at that meeting was erroneously accredited to Crawfordsville. See I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 414.
SMITH, ANDREW J .- Wabash (1830-1900). I. M. J., Vol. xix, 284.
SMITH, HUBBARD M .- Vincennes (1820-1907). Dr. Smith was well known as a physician, writer and educator. Following his graduation in 1847 he located in Vincennes, where he commenced the practice of medi- cine, and continued the same until his death. He was the first physician in Vincennes to recognize the pres- ence of cholera in 1849.
He was among the first to champion the cause of Abraham Lincoln for President, through the columns
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of the Vincennes Gazette, in 1860, and was made post- master at that place from 1861 to 1869.
Dr. Smith contributed an interesting article on "Medicine in the Northwestern Territory; A Contri- bution to the Early Medical History of Indiana," Trans. 1906, 438. This article is reproduced on p. 18. He was a poet of no mean order. A collection of his poems entitled "At Midnight and Other Poems" was published in book form by Carlin & Hollenbeck in 1898. His last contribution was "Historical Sketches of Old Vincennes."
He believed it to be his patriotic duty to take an interest in the affairs of his city, his state, and his nation on all matters of public interest, and he did so ..
For biography see Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Vol. i, 29. Also, American Bio- graphical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Second District, p. 32. A letter, I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 362. See poem, Conscience." I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 316.
SMITH, JOHN W .- Gosport (1830-1903). S. T. 1903, 355.
SMITH, LESTER F .- Brazil (1883-1907). S. T., 1907, 477.
SMITH, THEOPHILUS E .- Columbus (1846-1890) . S. T. 1890, 166. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 179.
SMITH, WILLIAM G .- Winchester (1837-1892). S. T., 1893, 247.
SMITH, WYCLIFFE .- Delphi (1851-1900). Was surgeon of the 161st Reg. Ind. Vols. in the Spanish- American War. Was accidentally killed by an express train near Delphi, Dec. 29. 1900. See I. M. J., Vol. xviii, 315.
SMYTHE, GONSOLVO C .- Greencastle (1836-1897). S. T. 1897, 354. Dr. Smythe began practice at Fill- more, near Greencastle, in 1860. He entered the army in 1862, as assistant surgeon of the Forty-third Reg. Ind. Vols., and served until the close of the war, when he began practice at Greencastle. In 1879 he was elected to the chair of Medicine and Sanitary Science
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in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indian- apolis. In 1890 he was elected president of the State Medical Society. He contributed a number of papers to the State Society: "Acute Articular Rheumatism," Trans. 1888, 33; "The Hydro-therapeutic Treatment of Typhoid Fever," Trans. 1889, 60; "President's Ad- dress; The Influence of Heredity in Producing Disease and Degeneracy, and Its Remedy," Trans. 1891, 1, and "The Treatment of Alcoholism," Trans. 1895, 338. He was also a frequent contributor to medical journals. He is the author of a book on "Medical Heresies, His- torically Considered," a book of 228 pages, published by the Blakiston house in 1880. It is claimed "that he was the first physician in America to use the hypo- dermic syringe." See I. M. J., Vol. xv, 382.
SPAIN, ARCHIBALD W .- Terre Haute (1837- 1898). S. T. 1898, 385.
SPARKS, JAMES B .- Carthage (1833-1895). S. T. 1896, 253.
SPINNING, JOHN N .- Covington (1822-1890). S. T. 1890, 162.
SPURRIER, JOHN H .- Rushville (1829-1902). S. T. 1902, 424. He was assistant surgeon of the Six- teenth Reg. and later surgeon of the 123d Reg. Ind. Vols., serving in the latter to the close of the war.
STAGE, LOUIS J .- Vallonia (1821-1880). S. T. 1882, 195.
STANTON, D. S .- Portland (1822-1906). S. T. 1907, 487.
STARR, ILER D .- New Albany (1874-1899). S. T. 1900, 338.
STEELE, ARMSTRONG T. - Waveland (1834- 1884). S. T. 1887, 187.
STEELSMITH, JOHN M .- Boone county (1825- 1900). S. T. 1900, 339.
STEVENS, BENJAMIN C. - Logansport (1850- 1908).
STEVENS, OLIVER P .- Maxinkuckee (1820-1888). S. T. 1888, 214. Formerly practiced at Kendallville,
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removed to Wisconsin, and during the Civil War was surgeon of the Forty-second Reg. Wisconsin Vols. At the close of the war he returned to Indiana.
STEVENS, THADDEUS M .- Indianapolis (1829- 1885). S. T. 1886, 207. Born, reared and died in In- dianapolis. Was professor of toxicology, medical jurisprudence and chemistry in the Indiana Medical College in 1870. In 1874, occupied the same chair in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. For a time he was editor of the Indiana Medical Journal. He was the first secretary and executive officer of the State Board of Health. He was prominent in all reforms tending to advance the profession of the state. He contributed a number of papers to the State Society: "The Treatment of the Criminal Insane," Trans. 1871, 193; "Medicolegal Science," Trans. 1872, 51; "Report on Medical History of Indiana," Trans. 1874, 17; "State Boards of Health," Trans. 1875, 65; "Report of Public Hygiene in Indiana," Trans. 1878, 67; "Sani- tary Survey of Indianapolis," Trans. 1880, 193; "State Medicine," Trans. 1881, 23; "The Need of Hospitals in Indiana, Constructed and Controlled by State Author- ity," Trans. 1882, 56; "Dr. Stevens vs. State Board of Health," Trans. 1883, 70; "The Relative Value of Bovine and Humanized Vaccine Virus, Practically Considered," ib., 213; "Report of Committee on Med- ical Legislation," ib., 239; and "Report of Committee on State Medicine," Trans. 1884, 24. See Stone, 682, and Robson, 341. Obituary, I. M. J., Vol. iv, 109.
STEWART, JOHN L .- New Albany (1835-1898). S. T. 1899, 386.
STILLSON, JOSEPH. - Bedford (1815-1885). S. T. 1886, 204.
STILLWELL, JOSEPH A .- Brownstown (1831- 1894). S. T. 1895, 401.
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