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1866 .- William H. Atwood.
1867 .- William H. Hawver, Edward P. Magoun, Wil- lard Peck, Levi F. Longley.
1868 .- Robert Hood, George K. Daley, Gilbert Langdon. 1870 .- R. J. Payn, Erastus Coons.
1872 .- Charles M. Bell, Louis K. Brown, Eugene Bur- lingame, Samuel Edwards, Alonzo H. Farrar, Ransom H. Gillett, Arthur M. Hawkes, W. H. Silvernail, W. W. Sax- ton, G. S. Collier.
1873 .- A. B. Gardenier, John C. Hubbard, Josiah A. Mills.
1875 .- Stephen F. Avery, J. Rider Cady, James B. Daley, E. D. Delamater, Chancellor Hawver, Giles H. O'Neill, George H. Stever.
1876 .- Claudius Rockefeller.
1877 .- Nelson F. Boucher, George D. Earle, Mark Duutz.
THE BAR OF THE PRESENT.
Hudson .- Robert E. Andrews, W. C. Benton, Chas. L. Beale, Nelson F. Boucher, Fayette M. Butler, W. H. Clarke, W. F. Clarke, Caspar P. Collier, Isaac N. Collier, J. Rider Cady, A. F. B. Chace, Mark Duntz, E. D. Delamater, Cor- nelius Esselstyne, Herman V. Esselstyne, Samuel Edwards, J. W. Fairfield, John Gaul, Jr. (1830), Chancellor Haw- ver, John C. Hogeboom, Peter M. Jordan, John B. Long- ley (district attorney), Levi F. Longley (county clerk), J. H. Lant, Robert B. Monell, Stephen L. Magoun, Edward P. Magoun, Henry Miller, Jacob P. Miller, John C. New- kirk, Giles H. O'Neill, Darius Peck (1828), Horace R. Peck, Willard Peck, Alexander S. Rowley, Claudius Rock- efeller, James Storm, R. B. Storm, S. M. Van Wyck, Jr., John V. Whitbeck, John McA. Welch.
Kinderhook .- Wm. H. Atwood, G. S. Collier, Theodore Snyder, Francis Silvester.
West Taghkanic .- Stephen F. Avery.
Taghkanic .- Wm. H. Hawver.
Greenport .- C. A. Baurhyte.
Chatham Village .- Louis K. Brown, Hugh W. McClel-
lan (county judge), John Cadman, W. C. Daley, Nathan S. Post, Geo. K. Daley, Josiah H. Mills.
Chatham .- James B. Daley.
North Chatham .- W. Heermance.
East Chatham .- W. W. Saxton.
Valatie .- Gershom Bulkeley, Geo. D. Earle, Alonzo H.
Farrar, A. B. Gardenier, Wm. H. Silvernail.
Germantown .- Erastus Coons.
Hillsdale .- Martin H. Dorr.
Ghent .- John T. Hogeboom, C. H. Porter.
Philmont .- Henry P. Horton.
Ancram .- W. W. Hoysradt.
Livingston .- Robert Hood.
Copake .- Gilbert Langdon, Daniel Sheldon.
THE COLUMBIA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION
was organized January 21, 1878, with John Gaul, Jr., as president; John C. Newkirk, Hugh W. McClellan, vice- presidents ; Edw. P. Magoun, recording secretary ; Willard Peck, corresponding secretary ; Cornelius Esselstyne, treas- urer ; R. E. Andrews, John Cadman, S. L. Magoun, J. R. Cady, Samuel Edwards, executive committee; A. F. B. Chace, C. L. Beale, Samuel Edwards, Willard Peck, and C. M. Bell, committee on admission ; and Francis Silvester, John C. Newkirk, N. F. Boucher, E. R. Delamater, and Chancellor Hawver, committee on grievances. The regular meetings of the association are published for the third Mondays of January and June, second Monday in April, and first Monday in October. Within one month from the date of organization about one-third of the members of the bar of the county were enrolled as members of the asso- ciation.
Resolutions of respect and condolence have been passed by the bar and spread upon the records of the courts on the death of eminent members in several instances. Among them Joseph D. Monell, in 1861, Hon. John Snyder and Colonel David S. Cowles, in 1863,-Mr. Snyder dying sud- denly in his house, and Colonel Cowles at the head of his regiment in the attack on Port Hudson,-H. N. Wright,
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1867, and Hon. Henry Hogeboom, in 1872. Eulogies on the deceased attorneys were pronounced by Mr. Gaul, Judge Newkirk, and others.
The circuit court was in session when the news of the assassination of President Lincoln was received in Hudson, and a committee of the bar was immediately appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the court and bar on the awful crime. The committee reported a series of resolutions expressing their utter detestation of the crime and the principles that prompted its commission, and the deep feeling of respect for the murdered chief magis- trate, which were by order of the court spread upon the records, on motion of Mr. Gaul, who made appropriate remarks relative thereto, as did also Judge Henry Hoge- boom, and the court was adjourned for the day.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
The first act of the Legislature regulating the practice of medicine and surgery was that of June 10, 1760. It was amended in 1792, and again in 1797, and under the latter act judges of the State courts and courts of common pleas and masters in chancery were authorized to license persons to practice as physicians upon proof that the applicant had pursued for two years the study of medicine. By the act of April 4, 1806, five or more physicians in a county or in adjoining counties could form a medical society. Such societies were empowered to grant licenses to practice medi- eine in the State, and the State society could grant diplomas. The latter was organized in 1807, and has maintained its organization to the present time. Delegates from the county societies compose its membership. The restrictions laid upon practice without a diploma were finally abolished in 1844, and the law now makes no distinction between the different classes of practitioners. Those assuming to act as physicians become responsible for their practice, and if not licensed by a county or State society, or are not regular graduates of a medical school, they can colleet pay accord- ing to the time employed, but cannot collect the specific fees implying professional skill which are recognized by the established usages of the profession.
The statute of 1806, for the incorporation of medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice of medi- eine and surgery, may be considered one of the first efforts made in this country to give to the medical profession an honorable station in the community.
The advantages to the community in placing the regula- tion of the medical profession under the direction of its own members has already been greatly manifested by the promotion of medical education, the encouragements given to physical inquiries and observation, and the diminished influence of pretenders to the healing art throughout the State.
COLUMBIA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The organization of this society was effected at a meeting of physicians and surgeons of the county of Columbia, held on the first Tuesday in June, 1806, at which there were present Drs. George Monell, Henry Malcolm, Noah Wells, John Milton Mann, Henry L. Van Dyck, Samuel White, William Bay, George Birdsall, John Talman. Dr. George Monell was chosen to officiate as moderator, and the follow-
ing were elected the first officers of the society, namely : Dr. William Wilson, president ; Dr. Thomas Brodhead, vice-president ; and Drs. William Bay and Henry Malcolm, respectively, secretary and treasurer ; after which it was
" Resolved, That the annual meetings of this society shall be on the first Tuesday in October, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the city of Hudson ; and
" Resolved, That Mann, Malcolm, and White be a committee to dratt the bye-laws, and that they report them at the next meeting ; and
" Resolved, That the secretary inform the president and the vice- president of their appointment, and the request of the society that the president read a dissertation at the annual meeting."
The following is a list of the names of members, past and present, of the Columbia County Medical Society, with date of their admission :*
1806 .- Samuel White, John Milton Mann, Hudson ; William Wilson, Clermont; George Monell, Claverack ; Henry Malcolm, Hudson ; Noah Wells ; Henry L. Van Dyck, Kinderhook ; William Bay, Claverack ; George Bird- sall ; Thomas Brodhead, Clermont ; John Talman, Hudson.
The names above mentioned are those of the first mem- bers of the Columbia County Medical Society, and they stand as landmarks of a new era in medicine,-the era of medical associations.
1807 .- Daniel Morris, William Barthrop (Kinderhook), Augustus F. Hayden, Peter Sharp, Joseph Jewett, John MeClellan (Livingston, died in Hudson), John De Lame- ter, David Abrams.
1809 .- E. B. Pngsley (Ghent).
1810 .- John P. Beekman (Kinderhook), Abraham Jor- dan (Claverack ).
181I .- Moses Burt.
1812 .- Thomas Belton.
1813 .- John C. Olmstead.
1818 .- David Mellen (Hudson), S. T. B. Platner, John T. Brodhead (Clermont), Squire Jones, Robert G. Frary (Hudson).
1821 .- Horatio Root (Chatham); Jolin Merriman, Henry D. Wright (Lebanon), Eleazer Root (Chatham).
1822 .- Jolın Van Der Poel (Kinderhook ), Alpheus Abrams, Edward H. Reynolds, Isaac Everist, Andrew Van Dyck.
1823 .- Hosea Beebe, Edward Dorr (Hillsdale), Robert Hicks.
1824 .- Asa Spaulding, Samuel Pomroy White (Hud- son), Hessel T. Van Orden (Germantown), Ebenezer Reed (Spencertown).
1825 .- Peter Van Buren (Clermont), John Sutherland.
1826 .- Henry Foote (Spencertown), Thomas Sears, Henry A. Hermanee.
1828 .- John Lusk, Levi B. Skinner, Stephen Platner (Copake), John Hunt (Hudson), Wm. M. Jones (Johns- town, died in Hudson), Samuel R. MeClellan (Hudson ), Peter P. Rossman (Aneram), Eriek King, Jesse Ferris.
1829 .- Benjamin MeKeeney (Hudson), Abner Dayton, Jolin B. Rossman, Russell Evart, Wm. H. Wilson.
$ This list, and the succeeding brief sketches of a few of the old physicians of the county, were prepared by a committee of the med- ical society, appointed for the purpose at their meeting in June, 1878.
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1830 .- Joseph Chadwick (Chatham), Bostwick O. Mil- ler, George H. White ( Hudson), Jacob S. Miller, John H. Cole (Claverack), Stillman E. Ames, Montillion Beckwith, Wm. E. Buckley (Hillsdale).
1832 .- James Hubbard, John M. Pruyn ( Kinderhook ), Seymour W. Simpson, John O. Flagler, Robert Rossman, J. W. Palmer, Stephen Hinsdale (Claverack ).
1835 .- Volkert Whitbeck (Hudson), William C. Bell, Charles Bull, Richard H. Mesick (Ghent), Robert Clow (Clermont).
1837 .- Daniel Sargent, - Hoagland ; C. W. Beman, James H. Barnes (Ghent), Wm. B. Finch, Allen A. Jor- dan ( Claverack).
1838 .- Joseph Bates (New Lebanon Springs), Henry B. Salmon (Stuyvesant).
1839 .- Peter Van Zandt, Robert Humphrey (Green- port), F. W. Jenkins.
1840 .- G. W. Cawkins (Germantown), N. Rusk, F. A. Warner, J. Robinson, William Wright, Daniel Haynes, Peter R. Coffin.
1842 .- Franklyn D. Pierson, Stephen G. Tallmadge, Harvey Cole, Conradt Niver (Copake), John C. Newman.
1843 .- P. H. Knickerbacker (Clermont), Elbridge Simpson (Hudson), Lucas Pruyn (Kinderhook), S. O. Vanderpoel (Kinderhook), - Moore, John P. Wheeler (Hudson), Charles R. Near (Germantown).
Reorganized in 1863 .- Joseph Bates, president, New Lebanon ; H. B. Salmon, vice-president, Stuyvesant Falls ; P. V. S. Pruyn, secretary, Kinderhook ; Wm. H. Pitcher, treasurer, Hudson.
1865-66 .- Dr. Atwood, William C. Bailey (Chatham), John C. Benham (Hudson), Elias W. Bostwick (Hudson), Joseph Dorr (Hillsdale), L. C. B. Graveline (Chatham), Lorenzo Gile (Canaan), S. M. Moore, O. H. Peck (Chat- ham), G. P. Salmon (Lebauon and Hudson), D. F. Van Aiken (Stuyvesant), Abram Van Deusen (Claverack ), R. H. Vedder (Chatham).
1866-67 .- Henry Lyle Smith (Hudson), George E. Bensen (Kinderhook and Hudson), Rensselaer Platner (Clermont), J. N. Schermerhorn (Stockport).
1869 .- J. K. Wardle ( Hudson), - Fowler, M. L. Bates (Canaan), E. B. Boice (Valatie), J. Lockwood (Ghent and Philmont), P. W. Shufelt (East Taghkanic), C. E. Segar, P. B. Collier (Kinderhook ).
1872 .- X. T. Bates (New Lebanon), N. H. Mesick (Glenco Mills), George Rossman (Ancram).
1873 .- Wm. O. Smith (Germantown), Joseph T. Lamb (Hudson), A. T. Losee (Germantown).
1876 .- Thomas Wilson (Claverack).
1877 .- Crawford E. Fritts (Hudson), J. H. Allen (Churchtown):
1878 .- Charles E. Valkenburgh (Stuyvesant Falls).
The following physicians have officiated as president of the society since its reorganization in 1863, viz. : 1863, Joseph Bates; 1864, H. B. Salmon; 1865, Wm. H. Pitcher ; 1866, E. W. Bostwick; 1867, G. P. Salmon ; 1868, P. V. S. Pruyn ; 1869, H. Lyle Smith ; 1870, J. C. Benham; 1871, R. H. Vedder; 1872, W. C. Bailey ; 1873-74, P. B. Collier ; 1875, L. M. Bates ; 1876, G. W. Rossman ; 1877, W. O. Smith.
The officers of 1877 were W. O. Smith, president; J. W. Lockwood, vice-president; Thomas Wilson, secretary and treasurer.
William Wilson was the first president of the Columbia County Medical Society. He was also president of the State Medical Society during the year of 1812,-the fifth of its existence. He was a man of sound judgment and extensive knowledge, both in medicine and the collateral sciences. In 1814 he was elected a permanent member of the State Society. Ile also represented Columbia county in the State Legislature, and died in 1829, aged and re- spected.
John Milton Mann was one of those pioneers in medi- cine who left a name which time has yet failed to erase. From 1807 to the time of his death he held responsible positions in the State Medical Society, and was the first of the eleven who organized it. He was drowned in crossing the river on the ferry-boat, Aug. 24, 1809, aged forty-three years.
Thomas Brodhead served in both the County and State Societies ; he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine by the regents of the University in 1828. He practiced long in the county, and left an honorable record. He died in 1830, aged sixty-five.
William Bay was another of the founders of the County - Society. He was a man of fine education, studied medi- cine in New York city, and graduated in 1779 ; from this time to 1810 he practiced in Claverack, where he achieved an enviable reputation. In 1810 he removed to Albany, where he became a leading physician; he died in 1865, aged ninety-two, having practiced medicine for sixty-three years.
Henry L. Van Dyck, another of the progenitors of the society, was born in Kinderhook. He was a hard worker for the society, and was honored and respected by all who were associated with him.
John Talman, of Hudson, was in the early days of the society one of the most popular physicians in the city. He was a skillful practitioner, and a man of very pleasing address, of fine form, and rare social qualities.
Samuel White is remembered not simply as a successful practitioner for over half a century in the city of Hudson, but as the founder, also, of the asylum for the insane in the same city, and which was in successful operation for twenty- five years. Dr. White was one of Hudson's most popular physicians and surgeons, and was a hard-working man in the society at its organization. He had a very extensive practice, both medical and surgical, and in his day was probably the ablest surgeon in eastern New York. He was professor of surgery at the Berkshire Medical College, in Pittsfield, for many years. He was made an honorary member of the State Society in 1829, and in 1843 was elected its president. After a very active and honorable life, he died in 1845, aged sixty-eight.
John McClellan figured largely in the medical affairs of the county. He was a man of large experience and pos- sessed of good sense and judgment. He was honored with the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the regents of the University in 1831, and, after a long and eventful life, died Oct. 18, 1855, aged eighty-three.
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John Merriman came into the society about the year 1820. He was original in thought and bold in practice. He struggled hard to suppress quackery and advance the regularly-educated physician. He represented the county in the State Medical Society, and in 1841 was honored with the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the regents of the University. After a long and eventful life, filled with honors and successes, he died at a ripe old age.
Dr. Robert G. Frary, of Hudson, was one of the bright- est lights of the Columbia County Medical Society, and his name and memory still live in the hearts of many through- out the county.
He was the first licentiate before the censors of this society, receiving his license in 1815. He immediately joined the society, and up to the time of his death, in 1862, was a most active and honored member. Dr. Frary was a self-made man, and rose to eminent distinction in the pro- fession. He was also the recipient of many public honors, and filled important offices in public life. He was made a permanent member of the State Society in 1836, in 1845 was vice-president, and in 1851 was elected its president. He died Dec. 29, 1862, aged sixty-nine.
So high was the regard of the citizens of Hudson for Dr. Frary's virtues, that they erected a costly monument to his memory.
John Van Der Poel came into the society in 1822. He was active and earnest in the profession, and for many years a leading practitioner. His son, Dr. S. O. Van Der Poel, the present health-officer of the port of New York, prac- ticed with his father in Valatie.
Ebenezer Reed, of Spencertown, was a man of sterling worth, and a very successful physician. He joined the society in 1819, and died in 1871.
Samuel Pomroy White was the eldest son of Dr. Samuel White. He was born in the city of Hudson, Nov. 8, 1801, graduated at Union College in the year 1822, and studied for his profession with his father, going through the regu- lar course of lectures at the medical college in New York city, under the late Valentine Mott, M.D. Although thoroughly familiar with all branches of his profession, he was especially devoted to surgery, and very early in his career performed some difficult operations with such skill and success as to attract the attention and gain the highest eulogiums from the most eminent members of the medical fraternity.
One operation alone, successfully performed by Dr. White when a young man, made him famous. The operation was the ligature of the internal iliac artery. The operation had never before been performed in America, and but thrice before in any country. This skillful and brilliant performance brought the young surgeon into favorable notice. He received from Williams College, soon after, the honorary degree of M.D., and was chosen to lecture before the medical college at Pittsfield on surgery and obstetrics. In the year 1833 Dr. White removed to the city of New York, where, until the time of his death, he continued in the successful practice of his profession, secur- ing the confidence and affections of his patients, and the high cstcem and respect of the members of the medical faculty.
In 1865 he read a paper before the Columbia County Medieal Society on " The Salubrity of the Climate of Hud- son," in which his warm and abiding interest in the city of his birth is most clearly evinced. He died June 6, 1867, and among his private papers, after his death, was found a note requesting that he might be buried in Hudson, which request was fully complied with.
George H. White was born in Hudson, Oct. 24, 1808. He was the youngest son of Dr. Samuel White, and was associated with his father in the management of the private insane asylum in the city of Hudson, and after the death of his father he conducted it alone for several years.
Dr. George H. White possessed many of the distinguish- ing characteristics of his father and elder brother.
His father, desiring that he should also pursue the pro- fession which he so ardently loved, gave him every advan- tage that would tend to fit him for a successful practitioner.
He was a man of fine address, quiet and unobtrusive, and was honored and respected by all who knew him. He was a thorough physician and a skillful surgeon. His ad- vice was always deliberate, because it was mature and given with a clearness that none could either misconstrue or misapprehend. And in his operations he was remark- ably calm and collected.
Among his earlier operations was the successful ligature of the subclavian artery, external to the scaleni muscles.
Dr. White became a member of the county society in 1830, and was a most active worker in it for twenty-five years.
Ill health obliged him finally to seek the south, but, un- fortunately, without benefit, for after a six months' sojourn in New Orleans he returned to Hudson, and died April 11, 1857.
John M. Pruyn, a worthy and active member of the society, lived in Kinderhook. He was made a permanent member of the State Society in 1849.
He died February, 1866, aged sixty.
Stephen G. Tallmadge possessed in a rare degree the qualities of the true physician. He occupied all the posi- tions of trust in the gift of the society. He died in 1868, honored by all who knew him.
Horatio and Eleazer Root, both of Chatham, were men of energy and thoroughly conversant with their profession, and to-day many mourn their death.
William H. Pitcher was a representative man in an emi- nent degree, not only in the profession but also in the society in which he moved. He was born in Claverack, Oct. 26, 1825. He graduated from the State Normal College at Albany, and on June 22, 1853, he graduated with honor at the medical college at Woodstock, Vt. He practiced at Claverack for three years, and then removed to Hudson. Dr. Pitcher was in all respects a self-made man; he devel- oped his faculties to a wonderful degree, his intellectual attainments being solid and substantial rather than brilliant in their character. In his professional life he was marked by a cool and sound judgment. Bold and fearless in the use of remedies, he achieved triumphs that extended his practice over a larger field than most physicians occupy. As a surgeon he was thoroughly conservative, but he per- formed many capital operations. He was an active mem-
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ber of the County Society, and represented it as a delegate to the State Society. On the 23d of May, 1872, while mak- ing a post-mortem examination, he received a wound, which was the direct cause of his death. He suffered the greatest agony for several days, and died June 1, 1872. And thus died one whose life, for many years, was identified with the city of Hudson, and whose name upon every tongue was as familiar as household words.
To the hearts and homes of hundreds he was endeared by many kindly acts and offices, while to all alike, the high, the low, the rich, and the poor, he was ever ready to exer- cise those rare abilities and attainments of which he was possessed. Lamentation for the loss of Dr. Pitcher extended over the whole county, and the citizens of Hudson mani- fested their regard for his virtues by erecting a beautiful monument to his memory.
HOMEOPATHY.
The practice of medicine after the school of Hahnemann was introduced into Columbia county in or about the year 1840, by Dr. George W. Cook. Dr. Robert Rossman also began the homœopathic practice about the same time. Dr. A. P. Cook was an old-school physician in Chatham in 1835, and went to Kinderhook in 1839, and in 1842 began the practice of the new school, and in 1844 came to Hudson, where he is yet in practice. Drs. G. W. Cook and Ross- man were also of the old school, as was Dr. Stephen Coburn, in Ghent, who changed to homoeopathy in 1842. Edward L. Coburn began the practice also in Ghent in 1843.
Homeopathic medical societies were authorized to be formed by the act of April 13, 1857, and under that aet the
COLUMBIA AND GREENE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY was organized Oct. 1, 1861, with the following officers : A. P. Cook, Hudson, president; T. T. Calkins, Coxsackie, vice-president ; C. M. Samson, Hudson, secretary; P. W. Mull, Ghent, treasurer ; C. H. Stevens, Hudson, J. W. Smith, Jr., Claverack, James S. Philip, Kinderhook, cen- sors. A constitution was adopted, which provides that any regular licensed physician under the laws of the State, who avows his belief in the homeopathic maxim similia simili- bus curantur, and conforms his practice thereto, may become a member of the society. Drs. Cook, Calkins, and Smith were the first delegates to the State Society.
The presidents of the society have been as follows : A. P. Cook, 1862-64; T. T. Calkins, 1865-66; W. H. Barnes, 1866-67 ; P. W. Mull, 1867-69; W. H. Barnes, 1869-70; H. B. Horton, 1870-71 ; T. T. Calkins, 1871- 72; C. P. Cook, 1872-73; P. W. Mull, 1873-74; A. P. Cook, 1874-75; W. H. Barnes, 1875-76; P. W. Mull, 1876-77.
The present officers are : President, P. W. Mull; Vice- President, A. F. Mull; Secretary, T. T. Calkins ; Treas- urer, W. H. Barnes ; Censors, J. S. Philip, O. J. Peck, James Green.
The members of the society have been and are as follows : 1861 .- A. P. Cook, T. T. Calkins, C. M. Samson, P. W. Mull, C. A. Stevens, J. W. Smith, Jr., Jas. S. Philip, Wright H. Barnes.
1862 .- E. Holly Hudson, J. F. Philip.
1863 .- L. B. Hawley.
1865 .- W. V. B. Blighton.
1866 .- S. E. Calkins.
1867 .- G. L. Barnes.
1868 .- C. P. Cook, W. M. Sprague, H. B. Horton, Kinderhook.
1869 .- James Green, James H. Green.
1870 .- Oliver J. Peck, North Chatham ; Dwight War- ren, Spencertown.
1874 .- N. H. Haviland, Spencertown ; A. F. Moore, Coxsackie ; David E. Collins.
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