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Cæsarian operation several times, saving both mother and child. At the present time he is also Professor of Gynecology in the Univer- sity of Vermont. He is an ex-president of the Woman's Alumni Society of the Woman's Hospital; was one of the founders of the In- ternational Gynecological Society, and is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Obstetrical Society, the Ameri- can Gynecological Society, and the American Congress of Physicians and Surgeons. He has published " Vaginal Hysterectomy in Amer- ica," " Varicocele in the Female," "Surgical Treatment of Subinyo- lution," " A New Method of Sur- gical Treatment for Lacerated Perineum," and " A New Method for the Surgical Treatment for Certain Forms of Retro-Displace- ment of the Uterus with Adbe- sions." Born in Phippsburgh, Me., July 4, 1853, Dr. Dudley is the son of Palmer Dudley and Frances Jane Wyman. The Dudley family is from the North of Ireland, Michael Dudley having emigrated to America in 1775, and settled in Maine. Through his mother he de- scends from the Wyman family of Wales and the Percy family of the South of Scotland, representatives AUGUSTUS PALMER DUDLEY, M.D. of both of which were soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812. Dr. Dudley married Cassandra Coon, daughter of W. J. Adams, of San Francisco, and has three daughters.
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BRYANT, JOSEPH DECATUR, was educated in the high school of Norwich, N. Y .; studied medicine with Dr. George W. Avery, of that place, and in 1868 was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was Interne in Bellevue Hospital from 1869 to 1871; in 1871 served as Prosector to the Chair of Anatomy in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, under Professor Stephen Smith; from 1871 to 1874 was Lecturer on Surgical Anatomy during the summer term; from 1875 to 1877 was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and from 1877 to 1897 was Professor of Anatomy in Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege, succeeding Professor Crosby. He was Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Operative and Clinical Surgery. in the same institution in 1897 and 1898, while he is now Professor of the Principles and Prac- tice of Surgery, Operative and Clinical Surgery, in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He is Visiting Surgeon to Belle-
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vue Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital, and is Consulting Surgeon to the Manhattan Hospital for the Insane, to Gouverneur Hospital, to the Woman's Hospital, and to the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, all of New York City, and to St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers. He was President of the New York Academy of Medicine from 1895 to 1897, and is a member of the American Surgical Association, the American Medical Association, the Medical Society and Medical As- sociation of the State of New York, the County Medical Society, and other medical organizations, as he is of the Manhattan, Lotos, and New York Athletic clubs. By Mayor Hewitt he was appointed Com- missioner of the Health Department of New York City for a term of six years, beginning in 1887. He was Surgeon of the Seventy-first Regiment from 1873 to 1882. He was appointed Surgeon-General on the staff of Governor Grover Cleveland in 1882, and held the same posi- tion during the succeeding administrations of Governors Hill and Flower. He has published a work on " Operative Surgery," which has reached its third edition, and has contributed numerous articles on surgical topies to the medical press. He was born in East Troy, Wal- worth County, Wis., in 1845. The Bryant ancestral line can be traced back in England to 1450, when members of the family were knighted for bravery. On his mother's side Dr. Bryant descends from the an- cient English family of Atkins, members of which were among the knights who participated in the Holy Wars of the Crusaders. A branch of this family settled in Middletown, Conn., in 1673.
JANVRIN, JOSEPH EDWARD, well-known physician, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, taught school for a time, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. During the Civil War he was Assistant Surgeon of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers. Since 1865 he has been engaged in practice as a physician and surgeon in New York City. He has been or is physi- cian to the Demilt Dispensary, Assistant Surgeon to the Woman's Hos- pital, and Gynecologist to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. He has been President of the New York Obstetrical Society and Presi- dent of the New York County Medical Association. He is a trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of the New York Coun- ty Medical Society, and of the American Gynecological Association. and also a member of the Union League Club, the New England Society, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He is an officer of the Mon- ticello Land and Improvement Company of Yonkers. He is the author of many medical papers, especially relating to gynecology and malig- nant diseases. He married, September 1, 1881, Laura L. La-Wall, of Easton, Pa., and has two children, Edmund R. P. Janvrin and Mar- guerite La-Wall Janvrin. He was himself born in Exeter, N. H., Jan- uary 13, 1839. and is the son of Joseph Adams Janvrin and Lydia 1.
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Colcord. His father was a merchant and farmer. Through him he descends from Captain Jean Janvrin, who came from the Isle of Jer- sey in 1705, and married Elizabeth Knight, of Portsmouth, N. H. He also descends from John Alden, of Plymouth Colony, who came over on the first voyage to America of the Mayflower, from Governor Simon Bradstreet; from Governor Thomas Dudley, and from Hemy Adams, of Braintree, Mass.
SHAFFER, NEWTON MELMAN, entered the New York Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled on May 1, 1863, the day it opened its doors. After graduating in medicine under the auspices of this institution, and under the direction of Dr. James Knight, its founder, he resigned in 1868, and soon after, at the request of Theo- dore Roosevelt and Howard Potter, became Surgeon-in-Chief of the New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital, a position he has held for nearly twenty-five years. Since 1876 he has delivered annual- ly a special course of lectures on orthopedic surgery at this institu- tion. From 1882 to 1886 he was Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the University Medical College, and for sixteen years, from 1872 to 1888, had a daily service at St. Luke's Hospital. In 1896 he was recalled to the Professorship in the University Medical College, but resigned in 1898 to join in the formation of the Cornell Univer- sity College of Medicine in New York City, being appointed Pro- fessor of Orthopedic Surgery in this institution. The establishment of an orthopaedic laboratory has been arranged by him as one of the departments of the Cornell University Medical College. In 1872 he was invited to accept a position in St. Luke's Hospital and demon- strate the value of modern orthopaedic methods. In May, 1873, the position of Orthopedic Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital was specially created for him-the first position of the kind in the United States. When he resigned, in December, 1887, he was made Consulting Ortho- pædic Surgeon of St. Luke's Hospital. He is also Consulting Ortho- pædic Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. He was the first to propose the organization of an Orthopa-die Society in the City of New York, and was one of the founders of what is now the Ortho- pædie Section of the Academy of Medicine. He was President of the Society, and in January, 1887, when retiring from the Presidency, in- vited the members to meet at his residence to aid in the formation of a National Orthopedic Association. At this meeting, held January 29, 1887, the American Orthopaedic Association was launched. As Presi- dent of this association. Dr. Shaffer brought about its admission, in 18SS, to the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, thus achieving the first public recognition of orthopedie surgery by a national organization in the United States. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Congress of American Physicians
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and Surgeons, the New York Neurological Society, the New York Orthopedic Society, the New York County Medical Society, and other organizations. He was a delegate to the Seventh International Medi- cal Congress in London in 1881, and from 18SS to 1896 was the Sec- retary of the Executive Committee of the Congress of American Physi- cians and Surgeons. Upon his retirement from this position he was made Treasurer of the Congress. A delegate to the Tenth Interna- tional Medical Congress in Berlin, in 1890, he read a paper, " What is Orthopaedic Surgery? " before this body. He has devised apparatus for the treatment of nearly every chronic deformity, including club- foot, spinal disease, knock-knee, flat-foot, lateral curvature, and white swelling. His work upon clubfoot has been especially thorough, and his treatment by forcible intermittent traction in place of cutting has been very successful. He demon- strated that ununited fracture of the neck of the femur might be cured without an operation. In connection with chronic joint dis- ease he demonstrated the reduced electrical reaction of the muscles acting upon the articulation. He was the first to describe non-de- forming clubfoot, and to demon- strate the shortened gastrocnemius muscle and the function of the ankle joint in the production of flat- foot. He is the author of works on "Pott's Disease of the Spine," " The Hysterical Element in Ortho- padic Surgery," and a volume of " Brief Essays on Orthopaedic Sur- NEWTON MELMAN SHAFFER, M.D. gery." He has been a frequent con- tributor to medical journals. Born in Kinderhook, N. Y., February 14, 1846, he is the son of Rev. James N. Shaffer, a prominent Methodist Episcopal clergyman, and Jane Eme- line Hale, daughter of William Hale and Catherine Melman. On the maternal side he is of English ancestry. His paternal great-grand- father, William Shaffer, came from Holland to New York City in 1760, while in this city his grandfather, William Shaffer, Jr., was born April 15, 1773. Ilis paternal grandmother was a Newton. In 1873, Dr. Shaffer married Margaret H., daughter of Hon. William Perkins, of Gardiner, Me. They have one son-Newton Metman Shaffer, Jr. Dr. Shaffer is a member of the University, Century, and Ardsley clubs.
CONKLING, JOHN TERRY, eminent physician of Brooklyn, was born in Smithtown. L. L., March 19, 1825, and died in Brooklyn, March
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17, 1898. He was graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1847, studied medicine with Dr. De Witt Clinton Enos, and in 1855 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and. Sur- geons. During the next forty years he was engaged in practice in Brooklyn. From 1864 to 1870 he was Brooklyn Superintendeut of the Metropolitan Board of Health, and during the same period was President of the Board of Education of Brooklyn. From 1873 to 1875 he was President of the Brooklyn Board of Health. He was a mem- ber of the Medical Society of the County of Kings from 1859 until his death, and at one time was its President. He was a delegate to the American Medical Association, and was a member of the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association and the Brooklyn Medical Book Club. He was Physician to the Brooklyn Dispensary and Eye and Ear Infirmary and Consulting Physician to the Long Island College Hospital. From 1886 to 1893 he was a member of the Council of the Long Island Col- lege Hospital. He was a member of the Hamilton Club and of the Long Island Historical Society. He was a charter member of Ply- mouth Church, and was a member of the committee which called Henry Ward Beecher as its pastor. He married, in 1819, Caroline E. Seaman, who survived him, with a daughter and a son -- Dr. Henry Conkling-who, for several years, was his father's associate in practice, and became his successor.
VALENTINE, FERDINAND CHARLES, was born in Laer, Han- over, Germany, March 22, 1851, and the following year was brought to America by his parents, John Julius Valentine and Rosette van Biema. He was educated under private tutors and at the Hoboken Academy. In 1870 he was graduated from the Homeopathic College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, but subsequently abandoned this school of practice, and in 1876 was graduated from the Missouri Medical College, his diploma being indorsed the following year by the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. IIe has since practiced in New York City, making a specialty of genito-urinary diseases. He was Sur- geon-General to the Army of Honduras from 1878 to 1881, since 1892. has been Genito-Urinary Surgeon to the West Side German Dispen- sary, and since 1895 has been Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases in the New York School of Clinical Medicine. He has done much work in bringing to recognition the dangerous character of the most fre- quent of all diseases in his specialty and in enabling physicians to un- derstand and combat it. He has published " A Contribution to the Study of the Symptoms of Chronic Urethritis," and other papers.
GOFFE, JAMES RIDDLE, was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1873, engaged in teaching for several years, and, coming to New York, was graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege in 1881. During the next two years he served as Interne in a
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branch of Charity Hospital and in the Woman's Hospital. In 1883 he entered upon the regular practice of medicine in New York, devot- ing himself mainly to gynecology and obstetrics. He is the discoverer of a new method in the operation for the removal of fibroid tumors. He was for several years associated with Dr. J. E. Janvrin, and later with Dr. William M. Polk, in one of the leading successful private sanitariums for women. After completing his term of service at the Woman's Hospital, he attached himself to the teaching staff of the New York Polyclinic, and steadily advanced through the successive grades of promotion to a full professorship in 1894. He was made Secretary of the Faculty of that institution, and during the next two years organized the Polyclinic Hospital and the training school for nurses. In 1896, the Medical News was moved to New York, and, un- der the editorship of Dr. Goffe, it took a place among the leading weekly medical journals. Dr. Goffe is Visiting Gynecologist to the New York City Hospital and to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a mem- ber of the New York County Medi- cal Society, the New York Obstet- rical Society, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, and the American Gynecological Society, of which he has been Secretary dur- ing the past three years. He was one of the original members of Troop A, New York State National Guard, in which he served for three JAMES RIDDLE GOFFE, M.D. years, and is a member of the University Club and the Richmond County Country Club. In 1890 he married Miss Eleanor Taylor, of New York City, who is descended from an old Massachusetts family. He is himself the son of William Goffe and Betsey Riddle, and was born at Kenosha, Wis., August 10, 1851. He is the grandson of Major John Goffe, a patriot officer in the Revolution; is the great-grandson of Colonel John Goffe, commander of a New Hampshire regiment in the French and Indian War, and is great-great-grandson of John Goffe. a member of Dr. Increase Mather's Church at Boston in 1676. Of the same family was William Goffe, the regicide.
KNAPP, JACOB HERMAN, eminent ophthalmologist, was born in Dauborn, Prussia, March 17, 1832, his father being a farmer and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the German
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Reichsrath. Dr. Knapp was graduated from the Gymnasium at Weil- burg, Hesse-Nassau, and after five years of study of medicine and allied branches at the universities of Munich, Würzburg, Berlin, Leipsic, Zurich, and Vienna, he was graduated in 1854 at Giessen. The follow- ing year he passed the State examination at Wiesbaden. He prepared himself for a university career by another four years of study at Paris, London, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Utrecht, and in 1859 was admitted as Lecturer at Heidelberg. In 1864 he was appointed Professor of Ophthalmology in that university. He founded, in 1860, an ophthal- mic clinic which, in 1866, was made one of the university clinics. It is now one of the most celebrated ophthalmic clinics in Europe, and is under Professor Theodore Leber, Dr. Knapp's assistant and successor. The latter resigned his professorship at Heidelberg in 1868 and re- moved to New York City. Here he became one of the founders of the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, a dispensary, hospital, and school for the treatment, study, and teaching of eye and ear diseases. He has ever since held the position of Executive Surgeon to this insti- tution. In 1869 he also founded the Archives of Ophthalmology and Otology, a scientific and practical quarterly, published in English and German, the pioneer journal of its kind in America. He was Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of the City of New York from 1882 to 1888, resigning in the latter year to become the successor of the late Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew as Professor of Ophthalmology in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Knapp's lit- erary contributions to ophthalmology and otology have been very numerous, and especially in operative surgery of the eyes.
WEBSTER, DAVID, was educated in the public schools and the Normal School of Nova Scotia; in 1868 was graduated from the Belle- vue Hospital Medical College; practiced medicine in West Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1868 and 1869, and in the fall of the latter year became First House Surgeon of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital. He held this position until the spring of 1871, while from that time to the spring of 1873 he was House Surgeon to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hos- pital. He was the associate in private practice of the late Dr. Corne- lius Rea Agnew from 1873 to the death of Dr. Agnew in 1888. He is Professor of Ophthalmology in Dartmouth College and Professor of the same in the New York Polyclinic. He is Surgeon to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, and Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Hos- pital for the Ruptured and Crippled, to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, and to the Hackensack Hospital. Hle is the author of many articles in medical journals, and is a member of the Union League Club and the New York Historical Society, the New York Academy of Med. icine, the New York County Medical Society, the New York State Med- ical Society, the New York Ophthalmological Society, the American Ophthalmological Society, the International Ophthalmological So-
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ciety, and the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association. He was born in Cambridge, Nova Scotia, July 16, 1812, the son of Asael Webster and Hepzibah Pearson. Both his parents were born in Nova Scotia, his mother being first cousin to Sir Charles Tupper. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Webster, was born in Lebanon, Conn .. and through him Dr. Webster lineally descends from John Webster. born in England in 1590, who was Governor of Connecticut in 1636.
DOUGLAS, ORLANDO BENAJAH, since 18SS Professor of Dis- eases of the Nose and Throat in the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, was born in Cornwall, Vt., September 12, 1836, the son of Amos Douglas and Almira Balcom, and in the eighth generation from Deacon William Douglas, who emigrated from Scotland to Boston in 1640, and subsequently settled at New London, Conn. He attended Brandon Seminary, taught school at the age of eigh- teen, and in 1858 entered his uncle's drug store at Brunswick, Mo., at the same time studying medicine. After two years of this occupation, he was for another year engaged as a bank clerk, and then enlisted in the Eighteenth Missouri Volun- teers in defense of the Union. He served six months in Missouri un- der General Fremont, and then joined the Army of Tennessee, with which he remained until the con- clusion of Sherman's march to the sea. He was twice wounded, while ORLANDO BENAJAH DOUGLAS, M.D. scouting in Missouri, in 1861, and at Shiloh, in 1862. He was commissioned Lieutenant, was made Adjutant of his regiment, and, by order of General Grant, became Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gen- eral on the brigade staff. He was on duty at Cincinnati, Ohio: Cor- inth, Miss., and in the Provost-Marshal's office at Concord, Mass. After the war he engaged in business for a number of years, then entered the Medical Department of the University of Vermont, and subsequently the University Medical College of New York City, being graduated from the latter in 1877. He served two years in the DeMilt Dispensary. Appointed, in 1877, Assistant Surgeon to the Manhat- tan Eye and Ear Hospital, in 1885 he became one of its surgeons and a member of its directorate. Since 1878 he has had charge of throat clinics in that institution during three days each week, no less than 200,000 visits having been made by patients to his clinies during this
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period. His professorship in the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital has already been referred to. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, was Secretary of its Committee on Ad- missions, in 18SS was Chairman of its Section on Laryngology and Rhinology, and during nine years prior to 1898 was Treasurer of the Academy. From 1879 to 1887 he was Treasurer of the County Medi- cal Society, and in 1890 was elected its President. In 1887 he was delegate from that body to the State Medical Society, and he is now a permanent member of the latter body. From 1880 to 1883 he was Secretary of the New York Therapeutical Society. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Electro-Therapeutical Association; for ten years has been a director of the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association; is an honorary member of the Vermont Med- ical Society, and a member of the American Laryngological, Rhino- logical and Otological Society, the Linnaan Society, the Scientific Alliance of New York, the American Geographical Society, the Park and Outdoor Art Association, and the New York Botanical Garden Association. He is a companion of the First Class Military Order of the Loyal Legion, is Surgeon of Reno Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and is a Mason, thirty-second degree. He was at one time prominently connected with the Young Men's Christian Association of Vermont; was Superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Bap- tist Church in Brandon, Vt .-- the largest Sunday-school in that State- and was President of the Vermont Sunday-school Association, having been its founder. He married, December 27, 1864, Mary A. Rust, of Orwell, Vt., who died, August 31, 1873, and by her bad a son, Edwin Rust Douglas, M.E., who is assistant to the Professor of Physical Mathematics at Harvard University. On September 16, 1875, Dr. Douglas married Mrs. Maria Manson Tiddy.
CLAIBORNE, JOHN HERBERT, JR., attended the University School at Petersburg, Va., and in June, 1883, was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, subsequently studying in Berlin, Paris, and London. In the fall of 1886 he engaged in practice in New York City as a specialist in the diseases of the eye and ear. He is or has been Attending Surgeon of the North Western Dispensary, Clinical Assistant to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hos- pital, Assistant Surgeon to the New Amsterdam Eve and Ear Hos- pital, Adjunct Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the New York Polyclinic, and Instructor in Ophthalmology in Columbia University. He is the author of two textbooks on his specialty, as well as of many articles. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Ophthalmological Society, the New York Academy of Medi- cine, the Virginia Medical Society, the New York County Medical Society, and the New York County Medical Association. He is also a member of the University, Calumet, and Fencers' clubs. He served
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in the National Guard of New York for five years as a member of Troop A, and afterward of Squadron A. He enlisted for the Spanish War, and served until its close in the Twelfth New York Volunteers, becoming successively Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, and Bat- talion Adjutant, Regimental Adjutant, and Captain of Company G. He was born in Louisburg, N. C., June 29, 1861, the son of Jolm Her- bert Claiborne and Sara Joseph Alston. He is fifth in descent from Colonel Augustine Claiborne, sixth from Captain Thomas Claiborne, seventh from Colonel Thomas Claiborne, and eighth from Colonel Will- iam Claiborne, the famous colonial rebel.
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