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TAYLOR, ISAAC E., who died in New York City in 1889, at the age of seventy-eight, was graduated from Rutgers College in 1830, and in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. He was Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children in Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1867, and was Emer- itus Professor from 1867 until his death in 1889, while during the en- tire period, from 1861 to 1889. he was President of the Faculty of Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was Consulting Physician to Bellevue Hospital from 1876 to 1889. .
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MCCREADY, BENJAMIN W., was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1835. For a time he was Pro- fessor of Materia Medica in the New York College of Pharmacy. From 1861 to 1872 he was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and from 1872 until his death in 1892 was Emeritus Professor. He was Consulting Physician to Bellevue Hospital from 1874 to 1892. His death occurred at New York City, when he was seventy-nine years of age.
. CHAMBERS, PORTER FLEWELLEN, was graduated in 1873 from Emory College, Oxford, Ga .; in 1876 was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and from 1SS1 to 1891 was associated in practice with Dr. Thomas Gaillard Thomas, the eminent gynecologist of this city. Dr. Chambers has since continued to follow this spe- cialty. He has been a very success- ful operator, his abdominal work showing a mortality of but three per cent. He has served on the House Staff of the Presbyterian Hospital, and been a member of the staff of the Woman's Hospital. He has contributed to medical jour- nals, is a member of various medi- cal societies, and is also a member of the Century, Riding, and Chi Phi clubs, and the Southern Society. He married, in 1893, Alice, daugh- ter of William H. Ely. and niece of Smith Ely, formerly Mayor of this city, and has one child-William Ely Chambers. Dr. Chambers was PORTER FLEWELLEN CHAMBERS, M.D. himself born in Russell County, Alabama, December 25, 1853, and is the son of William Henry Cham- bers, a lawyer, and Anne L. Flewellen; is the grandson of Joseph M. Chambers and Martha Alexander, and is the great-grandson of Gen- eral Abercrombie of the Revolution, and a lineal descendant of Sir William Alexander ( Lord Stirling), who came to Virginia in 1659. The American pioneer of the Chambers family came from the north of Ireland, while the founder of the Flewellen family came from Wales.
FRANCIS, JOHN WAKEFIELD, who died in New York City at the age of seventy-two. in 1861, was graduated from Columbia College in 1809, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1811 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and
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Surgeons. In 1850 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Trinity College. For a time he was Professor of Obstetrics and Med- ical Jurisprudence in Rutgers Medical College, New York City, while in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons he was Professor of Materia Medica from 1813 to 1816, was Professor of the Institutes of Medicine from 1816 to 1820, and from 1820 to 1826 was Professor of Obstetrics. He was President of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1848.
PARKER, WILLARD, was graduated from Harvard University in 1826, received the degree of Master of Arts in 1829, and in 1830 was graduated from the same in medicine. In 1870 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton College. In 1827 he was House Physician in the United States Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass. He was Professor of Surgery at Berkshire Medical College in 1832, and at the Cincinnati Medical College in 1836. From 1868 until his death in 1884 he was Consulting Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. From 1870 to 1881 he was Professor of Clinical Surgery in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, while he was Emeritus Professor from 1881 until his death, which occurred in New York City in JSS4, when he had reached the age of eighty-four.
WEIR, ROBERT FULTON, was graduated in 1854 from the Col- lege of the City of New York, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1859 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1860 and 1861 he was Curator of the New York Hospital. He was Assistant Surgeon in the Twelfth New York Volunteers in 1861, while from 1861 to 1865 he was Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army. He was Visiting Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital from 1865 to 1875. He was Clinical Assistant in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1865, while from 1866 to 1874 he was Aural Surgeon to the same. He was Visiting Physician to the Nursery and Child's Hospital from 1866 to 1870. He was Consulting Surgeon to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1869, and has sustained the same relation to the Roosevelt Hospital since 1888, having been Visiting Surgeon to this institution from 1871 to 1881. He has been Visiting Surgeon to the New York Hospital since 1876, and was Visiting Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital in 1882. In 1868 and 1869 he was Professor of Surgery in the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, while in the New York College of Physi- cians and Surgeons he was Lecturer on Genito-Uterine Diseases from 1873 to 1880, was Professor of Clinical Surgery from 1884 to 1892, and since the latter date has been Professor of Surgery.
FRUITNIGHT, JOHN HENRY, specialist in the diseases of children; was born in New York City, November 9, 1851, the son of
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John Henry Fruitnight and Sophia Lemkau, both parents being na- tives of Hanover, Germany, where his father served in the Queen's Body-guard. He attended the New York public schools; in 1872 was graduated from the College of the City of New York; studied medi- cine under Dr. Charles A. Leale, at the same time attending the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and, in 1875, was graduated from this institution. He had meantime supported himself by teaching in the evening in the public schools and giving lessons in languages and mathematics to private pupils. Beginning the practice of medi- cine in this city, he devoted himself mainly to obstetrics at first, and then to pediatrics, or the diseases of children. In 1879 he became At- tending Physician to the Outdoor Department of the New York Foundling Asylum, resigning two years later. Since 1887 he has been connected with St. John's Guild. He is one of its trustees, and Con- sulting Physician to its Floating and Seaside Hospital at New Dorp, Staten Island. He was one of the organizers, in 1891, of St. John's Guild Free Hospital, and is one of its visiting physicians. He is a Fel- low of the American Academy of Medicine, as he is also of the Amer- ican Pediatric Society, being one of the founders of the latter. He is a member of the American Congress of Physicians and Surgeons. He was Secretary of the Northwest- JOHN HENRY FRUITNIGHT, M.D. ern Medical and Surgical Society of New York City from 1881 to 1885, and in 1886 was its President. In 1895-96 he was Second Vice-President of the Medical Society of the County of New York, and since 1897 has been Chairman of its Committee on Hygiene. He is a member and, from 1880 to 1883, was a trustee of the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence. Since 1895 he has been a member of the Committee on Admissions of the New York Academy of Medicine, and he has represented the Acad- emy as a delegate to the State Medical Society. He is a Fellow of the Section of Obstetrics of the New York Academy of Medicine, and in 1887 was one of the organizers of the Section of Pediatrics, of which, in 1898, he was serving his second term as Chairman. He was also the first Secretary of this Section of the Academy. He is a member of the New York Medico-Surgical Society, as he is of the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association and the Bellevue Hos-
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pital Medical College Alumni. He was a member of the Ninth In- ternational Medical Congress, held in Washington in 1887, and was a member, by invitation, of the British Medical Association, held at Montreal, Canada, in 1897. He is a member of the New York Athletic Club, the New York Historical Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hle is cited as an authority on the diseases of children in Europe as well as the United States, but has declined to attach himself to the teaching body of any institution. Ilis published papers include " Delivery of the Breech with the Forceps," " Pudendal Hæmatocele," " Induction of Premature Labor in Hyperemesis Gravi- datum," " Kairine and Antipyrine," " Urinary Concretion in Chil- dren," " Treatment of Scarlet Fever," " Perityphilitis in the Young," " Treatment of Rachitis with Lacto-Phosphate of Lime," " Status of the Midwife, Legal and Professional," " Compulsory Vaccination," " Malarial Fever in Infancy and Early Childhood," " Infantile Scurvy, Especially its Differential Diagnosis," " Sarcoma of the Kidney." " Malignant Endocarditis," and briefer papers on empyema in child- hood. To the " American Textbook of Diseases of Children," edited by Dr. Lewis Starr, he contributed the articles on "Constipation," " Ascites," " Acute Peritonitis," and " Tumors of the Omentum and Peritoneum." Dr. Fruitnight has been a member of the Central Pres- byterian Church of New York City since 1880; was Secretary of its Board of Deacons from 1880 to 1886, and since 1886 has been Presi- dent of this Board. He married, in 1876, Gertrude Huggins, of New York City. She died in 1879. In 1881 he married Mary Augusta Stewart, of Iowa City, Iowa, by whom he has one child-Henry Stew- art Fruitnight.
DRAPER, HENRY, was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia. March 7, 1837, and died in New York City, November 20. 1882. He was graduated in medicine from the University of the City of New York in 1858, the following year studied in Europe, and in 1860 was an Interne of Bellevue Hospital. He was Professor of Natural Science in the Academical Department of the University of New York from 1860 to 1882, the time of his death, and was Professor of Physiology and Analytical Chemistry in the same department from 1871 to 18s2. He was Adjunct Professor of Physiology in the Medical Department of the same institution in 1866 and 1867, and from the latter date until 1873 was full professor. In connection with microscopie photography. he discovered in 1857 the value of the use of palladium protochloride to darken collodion negatives. Constructing a large reflecting tele- scope, in 1861 he made the largest photograph of the moon ever ob- tained. His treatise on the grinding and polishing of telescopic mir- rors, published by the Smithsonian Institute in 1864, is considered an authority on the subject. He helped to construct a twenty-eight- inch equatorial telescope with which he subsequently photographed
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the spectra of the stars, and in connection with its construction was the first to demonstrate and announce the superiority of pure silver for the spectrum. In 1872 he obtained the best photograph of the dif- fraction spectrum ever obtained. He was Superintendent of the Pho- tographic Department of the United States Commission to observe the transit of Venus in 1874, and for this service received a gold medal from Congress. In 1877 he announced the presence of oxygen in the sun. He published " A Textbook of Chemistry," and " On the Con- struction of a Silvered-glass Telescope," with many articles.
DRAPER, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, brother of the late Professor Henry Draper, was born in Virginia, March 31, 1835, and died in New York City, December 20, 1885. He attended the Academical Depart- ment of the University of New York from 1851 to 1854, and in 1857 was graduated from the Medical Department, the same year becoming an Interne at Bellevue Hospital. In 1857 and 1858 he studied in Europe. He was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in the University of New York from 1858 to 1871, and Professor of Chemistry in the Med- ical Department of the same from 1866 until his death in 1885. He was a surgeon of volunteers at the surrender of Harper's Ferry. From 1860 to 1863 he was Professor of Chemistry at Cooper Institute, while from 1863 to 1885 he was Professor of Natural History in the College of the City of New York. He published a " Textbook of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene " (1866), " Practical Laboratory Course in Chemistry " (1882), and " A Textbook of Medical Physics " (1885), edited " Scribner's Year-Book of Nature and Science " (1872), the " Note-Book of Nature and Science " (1873), and the Nature and Science Department in Scribner's Monthly from 1872 to 1876.
WOOD, JAMES RUSHMORE, who died in New York City in 1882, at the age of sixty-nine, was graduated in medicine at Castleton, Vt., in 1846, subsequently receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws from another institution. In 1846 and 1847 he was Demonstrator of Anat- omy at Castleton, subsequently removing to New York City. He was at one time President of the New York Pathological Society, was Vis- iting Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital from 1847 until his death in 1882. and was also Visiting Surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital and the New York Ophthalmological Dispensary, and Consulting Surgeon to the Colored Orphan Asylum. He successfully ligated the carotid and sub- clavian arteries on the same side for anourism of innominate. His cure of aneurism by digital compression in 1848 was among the first cases on record. It is estimated that prior to 1879 twenty-five per cent. of all the operations in the world for the removal of Meckel's ganglion with superior maxillary division of trigeminus were done by him. He was a pioneer in periosteal surgery, and was one of the first to perform resection of the shoulder- and elbow-joints in this country. He first
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suggested division of hamstrings and the tendon Achilles in chronic inflammation of the knee-joints. He first suggested division of the peroneus muscles in chronic inflammation of the tendon. He pub- lished " Strangulated Hernia " (1845), "Spontaneous Dislocation of Head of the Femur into Ischiatic Notch Occurring in Morbus Cox- arius " (1847), " Phosphorus Necrosis of Lower Jaw " (1856), " Liga- tion of External Iliac Artery, Followed by Secondary Hemorrhage " (1856), " Early History of Operation of Ligation of Primitive Carotid Artery " (1857).
DELAFIELD, EDWARD, one of the most eminent physicians of New York, was graduated from Yale in 1812, studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Borrowe, of this city, and in 1815 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. After completing the regular term of service in the New York Hospital, he studied in Europe for a year, chiefly in London, where he was the pupil of Sir Astley Cooper and Dr. Aber- nethy. In November, 1820, in conjunction with Dr. John Kear- ney Rodgers, he founded the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, with which he remained identified until his death, February 13, 1875. ITe was its Attending Surgeon until 1850, when he was elected Con- sulting Surgeon. In 1870 he be- came its Vice-President. He prac- ticed medicine in association with Dr. Borrowe at the outset. He EDWARD DELAFIELD, M.D. became Attending Physician to the New York Hospital in 1834, and the following year became Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His private practice subsequently led to the resignation of both positions. He founded the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in 1842, and was its first President. He was President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of this city from 1858 until his death. He served on the Board of Governors of Roosevelt Hospital, acting as its President, and was Chairman of the Building Committee of the institution. He was one of the found- ers of the New York Ophthalmological Society in 1865, and was its first President. From 1858 until his death he was Senior Consulting Physician of St. Luke's Hospital. IIe also became Senior Consulting
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Physician of the Woman's Hospital upon its establishment in 1872, and was also President of its Medical Board. He was President of the Medical Board of the Nursery and Child's Hospital from its founda- tion in 1854. He probably contributed more than any other man of his time to the promotion of intelligent and efficient organization for public ends in the medical profession in this city. Born in New York City, May 17, 1794, he was one of the thirteen children of the first John Delafield, of New York, hereditary Count of the Holy Ro- man Empire, and merchant, capitalist, and pioneer in the creation of the insurance interests in this city which sprung up after the Revolu- tion. The present Dr. Francis Delafield, of New York City, is a son of the late Dr. Edward Delafield.
DELAFIELD, FRANCIS, in 1876 succeeded the late Dr. Alonzo Clark as Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), having previously been for one year Adjunct Professor, and has held the chair continuously since. He has a reputation at home and abroad in the department of pathology. Ilis "Studies in Pathological Anatomy " is a stand- ard work of reference. He early published a " Handbook of Post- mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy," which, with the as- sistance of Dr. T. Mitchell Prud- den, he made the basis of his notable " Handbook of Patho- logical Anatomy and Histology." This work is in general use for reference among practitioners, and is employed as a textbook in nearly all medical colleges. Dr. Delafield has also published a " Manual of Physical Diagnosis " and many important monographs FRANCIS DELAFIELD, M.D. and articles, including papers on " Renal Diseases " ( 1892) and " Inflammations of the Colon " ( 1897). He was born in New York City, August 3, 1811, the son of the late Dr. Edward Delafield and Julia Floyd. Hle was graduated from Vale in 1860, and from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1863, subsequently studying in Europe. He became Curator to Bellevue Hospital in 1866, was one of its visiting physicians from
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1875 to 1886, and since the latter date has been Consulting Physician. Since 1873 he has been Visiting Physician to Roosevelt Hospital and Pathologist to the same, and since 1870 has been connected with the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as Surgeon or Consulting Physician. He is Consulting Physician to St. Mary's Hospital. In 1890 he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale University. Ile is a member of the Metropolitan, Century. City, Riding, and Yale clubs, the Yale Alumni Association, the New York Academy of Medi- cine, the Medical Society of the County of New York, the State Medi- cal Society, the New York Pathological Society, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, and the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association.
POWELL, SENECA DANIEL, was born in Wilcox County, Ala- bama, January 5, 1848, the son of Augustus H. Powell, a planter, who was Quartermaster in the Confederate Army, and subsequently Presi- dent of the Kansas City Savings Association, and a member of the Missouri Legislature. Dr. Powell was a cadet at the University of Alabama at the time of the Civil War, volunteered in the Confederate service, and, at the close of the war, when seventeen years of age, engaged in farming and storekeeping. In 1869 he was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, came to New York, in 1870 was graduated from the University of the City of New York, and the following year became Interne at Bellevue Hospital. He became Surgeon of the Smallpox Hospital on Blackwell's Island. In 1871 and 1872 he was assistant Inspector of the Health Department of New York City, and during the same period was Clinical Assistant to the Chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was Attending Physician to the Cen- tral Dispensary from 1871 to 1875, as he was to the Northwestern Dispensary from 1875 to 1879. In 1875 he was Surgeon of the Second Brigade of the National Guard. From 1878 to 1882 he was Clinical Assistant to the Chair of Surgery of the University of the City of New York. He was Lecturer on Surgical Dressings in the New York Post- Graduate Medical School in 1882 and 1883, was Instructor in the same in this institution in 1883 and 1884, was Professor of Minor Surgery in the same from 1885 to 1887, and, since 1887, has been Professor of Clinical Surgery. He has been Visiting Surgeon to St. Elizabeth's Hospital since 1886, and to the New York Infant Asylum since 1887. He was Vice-President of the New York County Medical Society in 1891, and its President in 1893. He has recently served two terms as President of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was Vice-Pres- ident of the Pan-American Medical Congress which met in Washington
. in 1893. He has served as Chairman of the Business Committee of the State Medical Society. He was one of the founders and proprietors of the New York Post-Graduate Medical Journal.
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SANDS, HENRY BERTON, was born in New York City, Septem- ber 27, 1830, and died there November 17, 1888. He was graduated from Yale in 1853. In 1854 he was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, was Interne at Bellevue Hospital in 1855 and 1856. studied in Europe in the latter year, and in 1856 and 1857 was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1857 to 1866 he was Dem- onstrator of the same in this institution, and from 1867 to 1879 was Professor of Anatomy, while from 1879 until his death he was Pro- fessor of the Practice of Surgery. He was Visiting Surgeon to Belle- vue Hospital from 1862 to 1877; to St. Luke's Hospital from 1862 to 1870; to the New York Hospital from 1864 to 1881; to Charity Hos- pital in 1865 and 1866; to the Strangers' Hospital in 1871 and 1872; to Roosevelt Hospital from 1872 to 1888, and also to Mount Sinai Hos- pital. He was Consulting Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital from 1870 to 1884, and to the New York Hospital from 1881 to 1884. He has published " A Case of Cancer of the Larynx Successfully Removed by Laryngotomy; with an Analysis of Fifty Cases of Cancer of the Larynx Treated by Operation " (1861) ; " On the Use of the Plaster of Paris Bandage in the Treatment of Fractures, Especially Fracture of the Femur " (1871) ; " A Case of Traumatic, Brachial Neuralgia, Treated by Excision of the Cords which go to form the Brachial Plex- us" (1873) ; " Notes on Perityphlitis " (1880), " An Account of Two Cases of Pelvic Aneurism " (1881), " The Question of Laparotomy for the Relief of Acute Intestinal Obstruction " (1882), " The Question of Trephining in Injuries of the Head " (1883), " The Value of Inter- nal (Esophagotomy in the Treatment of Cicatricial Stricture " ( 1884), " Rupture of the Ligamentum Patella, and its Treatment by Oper- ation " (1885) ; " On the Use and the Abuse of Passive Motion " (1887), and " An Account of a Case in which Recovery Took Place after Laparotomy had been Performed for Septic Peritonitis, due to a Perforation of the Vermiform Appendix; with Remarks upon this and Allied Diseases " (1888).
LOOMIS, ALFRED LEBBEUS. was graduated from Union College in 1851, the following year was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and from the University of the City of New York subsequently received the degree of Doctor of Laws. He became Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Uni- versity of the City of New York in 1867. From 1859 until his death he was Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital. From 1890 to 1892 he was President of the New York Academy of Medicine. His " Physi- cal Diagnosis," first published in 1868, reached its sixth edition in 1890. Hle also published " Diseases of the Heart, Lungs, and Kidneys " (1875). " Lectures on Fevers " (1877), and " Practical Medicine " (1884; second edition, 1889).
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LOOMIS, HENRY PATTERSON, son of the late Alfred L. Loomis, was graduated from Princeton College in 1880, in 1883 was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, from 1887 to 1890 was Adjunct Professor of Pathology in the University of the City of New York, and since 1890 has been Professor of the same in this institution. He has been Curator of Bellevue Hos- pital since 1886, and Visiting Physician to the same since 1887, while he was an Interne in 1884. He has been Pathologist to the Health Department of New York City since 1888. and during the same period has been Director of the Loomis Laboratory of the University of the City of New York. He was Visiting Physician to Gouverneur Hospi- tal in 1890 and 1891.
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