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of the Order of Wasa. Appointed by the American Medical Associa- tion a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876, he presented a paper on " Morbus Coxarius," or hip-joint dis- ease, and performed his famous operation. He next took up Pott's disease and lateral curvature of the spine, and accomplished results as remarkable and as revolutionary by suspension of the body with the application of plaster-of-paris bandages or jackets. Appointed by the American Medical Association in 1877 a delegate to the meet- ing of the British Medical Association at Manchester, England, he received a remarkable reception in Great Britain, and lectured and gave demonstrations to illustrate these new methods before the lead- ing hospitals and medical societies in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Cork. The British Medical Journal declared at the time that " his treatment of angular and lateral curvature of the spine constitutes a new era in that department of surgery." He published while in England, and dedicated to the medical profession of Great Britain, his notable work, " An Illustrative Treatise on Spinal Disease and Spinal Curvature." This book, with his " Practical Manual of Club-foot " and " Lectures on Orthopaedic Surgery and Diseases of the Joints," are world-wide authorities, having passed through many American, English, German, and French editions. An American writer says of his work: " Dr. Sayre is the inventor of a number of important instruments used in his practice, and which have proved of the greatest service in the surgical profession; among these being the uvulatome, club-foot shoe, scrotal clamp, flexible probe, improved tracheotomy tube, and various splints and appliances for use in ortho- pædie surgery, which have proved of the highest value to the profes- sion and of remarkable utility in the treatment of deformities. . His life work in connection with hip-joint disease alone is sufficient to entitle him to the gratitude of his own countrymen and the world. It may be said of him that in his whole peculiar department of healing he stands absolutely alone, having conceived his method, devised his practice, and invented his instruments." Dr. Sayre was born in what is now Madison, Morris County, N. J., February 28, 1820, the son of Archibald Sayre, a wealthy farmer, and grandson of Ephraim Sayre, Quartermaster in the patriot army during the Revolution. A pre- cocious child, at four years of age Dr. Sayre recited verses of welcome in the presence of Lafayette. He received an academic education, in 1839 was graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., and, as already stated, from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1842. He married, in 1849, Eliza Ann, daughter of the late Charles Henry Hall, eminent in connection with the development of the Harlem district of the city. They have had four children --- Miss Mary Hall Sayre, a brilliant linguist; the late Dr. Charles HI. II. Sayre, the late Dr. Lewis Hall Sayre, and the present Dr. Reginald ITall Sayre.
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MOTT, VALENTINE, one of the most famous surgeons of the United States, was born at Glen Cove, L. I .. in 1785, in 1806 was graduated from the Medical Department of Columbia College, having also studied with a relative, the eminent Dr. Valentine Seaman, and going to England, studied under the famous Sir Astley Cooper and others, visiting the hospitals, and attending lectures in London and Edinburgh. In 1808 he returned to this city. From 1809 to 1832 he was Professor of Surgery in the Medical Department of Columbia College, and its successor. the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1832 he became one of the founders of the Rutgers School of Medicine, and was its Professor of Surgery for four years. From 1836 to 1850 he held once more his old chair in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. " He originated a great number of opera- tions deemed impossible before his day, and which revolutionized med- icine and surgery." The degree of M.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh. He was a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Paris. He was Surgeon to six hospitals of this city, the New York, Bellevue, St. Luke's, St. Vincent's, Hebrew, and Woman's. He married Louise Dunmore Munn. The late distinguished Dr. Alex- ander Brown Mott was their son.
MOTT. ALEXANDER BROWN, fourth son of the renowned sur- geon. Valentine Mott, was born in this city in 1826, attended Dr. Anthon's Columbia Grammar School, in 1850 was graduated from the Vermont Academy of Medicine, was one of the founders of St. Vin- cent's Hospital of this city, was one of the founders and long a Pro- fessor of the Bellevue Medical College, and was Surgeon to Bellevue. St. Vincent's, and Mount Sinai hospitals. Surgeon to the Second Bri- gade of this State when the Civil War broke out in April, 1861. he was appointed Medical Director of the Department of the East, or- ganized the United States Army General Hospital in this city, and was its chief surgeon, with the rank of Major. . In 1864 he served on the staff of General Ord as Medical Inspector of the Department of Virginia, and was present when Lee surrendered. He was mustered out with the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married, in 1851. Ara- bella, daughter of Thaddeus Phelps, and died in 1889. As a youth abroad. he at one time was Secretary to Commodore Morrison, United States Navy, in the Mediterranean, while he also took part in a Span- ish revolution, commanding a battery at the Siege of Barcelona.
The present Dr. Valentine Mott. only child of Dr. Alexander Brown Mott. was born in this city in 1852. in 1872 was graduated from Columbia. in 1876 was graduated from Cambridge University. England, and in 1879 was graduated from Bellevue Medical College. Through his eminent father and renowned grandfather, he descends from Adam Mott, who settled at Hempstead, L. I., some time prior to 1655.
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HARRISON, GEORGE TUCKER, at present (1898) President of the New York County Medical Association, was born, July 23, 1835, at the University of Virginia, where his father was a professor; was educated in that institution, being graduated as Master of Arts in 1854, and from the Medical Department in 1856, and after nine months' service in St. Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia, was engaged in the practice of medicine in St. Louis, Mo., until shortly before the Civil War. He served with the forces of Virginia during the war, being present at the first battle of Bull Run in the capacity of As- sistant-Surgeon, and remaining connected with the Medical Depart- ment of the Confederate armies until the close of the conflict. In 1864 he was a member of the Medical Commission charged with the duty of inspecting the Confederate hospitals and discharging from them all men able to carry a mus- ket. In 1868 he came to New York City, where he has become eminent as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. He served a term up- on the House Staff of the Wom- an's Hospital after his arrival in New York, and subsequently was for fifteen years Assistant-Sur- geon to the same institution. In 1890 he was elected President of the New York County Medical As- sociation, declined a re-election, but in January, 1898, was once more elected to this position. He has also been President of the New York Obstetrical Society, and is a member of the International Medi- cal Congress, a Permanent Member GEORGE TUCKER HARRISON. of the American Medical Associa- tion, a Fellow of the American Gynecological Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, and an Honorary Member of the Virginia State Medical Society. He is also a member of the Reform. Church. Delta Kappa Epsilon. and Democratic clubs. He was married. in 1865, to Lelia, daughter of William Bell, at one time a New York merchant. of the firm of Bell. Pace, Lavender & Company, and has a son-Dr. Gessner Harrison-and two daughters-Elizabeth M., wife of Professor William H. Echols, of the University of Virginia, and Lelia Bell Harrison. Dr. Gessner Harrison is associated with his father in practice, and at the same time is Sanitary Inspector to the Board of Health of New York City. He was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Virginia in 1888. and served several years on the House Staff of Charity Hospital. to which posi-
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tion he was appointed after a competitive examination. Dr. George Tucker Harrison is a member of the family which has contributed two Presidents of the United States. He is great-grandson of Ben- jamin Harrison, of Virginia, a Captain of the Patriot Army during the Revolution, and is the son of the late Professor Gessner Harri- son and Eliza Lewis Carter. His father was eminent among Ameri- can educators. from 1828 to 1859 was Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of Virginia, and subsequently founded a noted classical school at Belmont. Va. His book. " On Greek Preposi- tions " (Philadelphia, 1848), and his " Exposition of Some of the Laws of Latin Grammar " (New York, 1852), were standard authori- ties of their day. Dr. Harrison's grandfather, Professor George Tucker. also of the faculty of the University of Virginia, was an in- timate friend of Thomas Jefferson, a Member of Congress, a writer on political economy, and one of the first to draw deductions from the census returns, and published a " Life of Jefferson " and a " History of the United States " in four volumes.
DOREMUS, ROBERT OGDEN, is one of the most distinguished of analytical chemists and toxicologists, his investigations in toxi- cology having effected a revolution in medical jurisprudence. His testimony as an expert has been a determining factor in some of the most famous criminal trials in the annals of this city. As one of the editors of the Standard Dictionary he had charge of all the chemical definitions. Ile entered Columbia College in 1838, was graduated from the University of New York in 1842; was the first private pupil of the late Professor John W. Draper, and becoming his assistant in 1843, participated in several of his notable discoveries. In 1847 he studied chemistry in Paris. In conjunction with Dr. Charles T. Harris he established an analytical laboratory in this city in 1848, while the following year he was elected Professor of Chemistry in the New York College of Pharmacy. Meantime he also studied medicine with Dr. Abraham Cox, and in 1850 received the degree of M.D. from the University of the City of New York. That of LL. D. was subse- quently received. One of the founders of the New York Medical College and a member of its faculty, at his own expense be equipped for it the first chemical laboratory attached to a medical college in the United States. He performed the same service for the Long Island Hospital Medical College in 1859. He has been President of the Medi- co-Legal Society and President of the New York Philharmonic So- ciety. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Union League Club, and the St. Nicholas Society. He is the son of Thomas Cornelius Doremus, a merchant of this city, and Sarah Platt. daughter of Elias Haines, and granddaughter of Robert Ogden, the lawyer. His mother was a remarkable woman. She became, in 1842. a founder and the first President of the institution for discharged fe-
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male prisoners, now the Isaac T. Hopper Home, and subsequently became the first .President of the Woman's Hospital, remaining at its head until her death in 1877. Dr. Doremus married Estelle E., daughter of Captain Hubbard Skidmore, and a descendant of Cap- tain John Underhill, and has a daughter and seven sons-Dr. Charles Avery, Thomas Cornelius, Robert Ogdeu, Fordyce Barker, Austin Flint, Clarence Seward, and Arthur Lispenard. Mrs. Doremus for several years was Regent of the New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is now an honorary Vice-President of the National Society.
DOREMUS, CHARLES AVERY, eldest son of Professor Robert Ogden Doremus, the eminent analytical chemist, occupies the position of Adjunct Professor of Chemistry in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and that of Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the College of the City of New York. From 1877 to 1882 he was Professor of Chemistry in the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, and from that institution received the degree of M.D. In 1896 he represented the United States Government at the International Con- gress of Applied Chemistry at Paris. He has been an original iu- vestigator and has been called as an expert on chemistry into many patent and other litigations. He was born in this city in 1851, was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1870, and, having studied at both Leipsic and Heidelberg, took the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. from the latter university. He is a member of the University and Delta Kappa Epsilon clubs, and the Scientific Alli- ance. He married, in 1880, Elizabeth Johnson Ward, of Newport, Ky., and has a daughter.
MARKOE, THOMAS MASTERS, one of the most eminent medical practitioners of New York City, was born in Philadelphia. September 13.1819; attended Dillingham's School, Pittsfield, Mass .; was graduated from Princeton College in 1836. and in 1841 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He became Junior Assistant in the New York Hospital in 1839, while a student in the medical college, and with the exception of a very brief period immedi- ately after his graduation, he has been connected with this institu- tion continuously since, a period of almost sixty years. Upon his re- turn to the hospital staff in 1842 he was appointed Assistant Curator in the Pathological Museum, about a year later became Curator, a po- sition which he held for five years; was then made Lecturer on Patho- logical Anatomy; from February 3, 1852. to April 5, 1892, was At- tending Surgeon to the hospital, and since the latter date has been Consulting Surgeon. He has been a member of the faculty of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons uninterruptedly since
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1860. From that date to 1871 he was Adjunct Professor of the Prin- ciples of Surgery; from 1879 to 1888 was Professor of the Principles of Surgery, and since the latter date has been Emeritus Professor of Surgery. In private practice he was long the associate of the late Dr. Edward Delafield, and subsequently had for his own associate the latter's son. Dr. Francis Delafield. Prior to becoming a member of the faculty of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, he was for some years Professor of Anatomy in the Castleton (Vt.) Medical College, and Professor of Pathological Anatomy in the Uni- versity of the City of New York. He has been Attending Surgeon to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, the Mount Sinai Hospital, Belle- vue Hospital, and Roosevelt Hospital, and at the present time he is Consulting Surgeon to Mount Sinai Hospital, the Woman's Hospital. Roosevelt Hospital, the Orthopedic Hospital. St. Mary's Hospital. Vassar Hospital, and the Nursery and Child's Hospital. On April 7, 1862, Governor E. D. Morgan ap- pointed him a member of the Spe- cial Corps of Volunteer Surgeons organized at the request of the Sec- retary of War, and in this capacity he was stationed at Fortress Mon- roe, and later at Yorktown. On May 16, 1862, he was made a mem- ber of the Board of Examiners of Contract Physicians and Surgeons. On June 1, 1863, Governor Sey- mour appointed him Visiting Sur- geon to the New York State Sol- diers' Depot, at 30-52 Howard Street, as well as to the Barracks Hospital in the City Hall Park. In THOMAS MASTERS MARKOF, M D. 1864 he was ordered to Fredericks- burg and Belle Plain. He was for some years Vice-President of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was President of the Board of Trustees of Astor Library from 1891 to 1895, when the consolidation was effected with the Lenox and Tilden foundations, since which time he has been a Trustee of the consolidated New York Public Library. He had been a Trustee of Astor Library continuously since 1863. He was one of the founders of the Musical Club in the winter of 1841-42. He attended the first concert of the Philharmonic Society, December 7. 1842. and has been a subscriber during every subsequent season. He is a member of the Century and University clubs, the Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, the Pathological Society, the Surgical Society, the Medical and Surgical Society, and the Society for the Relief of the
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Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. He has published a large num- ber of articles and papers on vital aspects of surgical work, and is the author of the widely known " Treatise on Diseases of the Bones." He was married, November 20, 1850, to Charlotte Atwell low. Of their five children one son died in infancy. The two surviving sons- Dr. Francis Hartman Markoe and Dr. James Wright Markoe-are both successful physicians of New York City. The two daughters are Charlotte How, wife of R. H. Robertson, the well-known architect, and Sallie Caldwell Markoe.
MARKOE, FRANCIS HARTMAN, son of the distinguished Dr. Thomas Masters Markoe and Charlotte How, of New York, was born in this city, March 20, 1856; attended here Lyon's Collegiate Institute, and Holbrook's Military Academy at Sing Sing; in 1876 was graduated from Princeton Col- lege, and in 1879 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of this City, being one of the honor men of his class. Engaging in general practice, he gained recognition as one of the foremost surgeons of the younger generation in New York. In 1880 he was on the surgical staff of the New York Hospital; from 1881 to 1887 was Attending Physi- cian to the Nursery and Child's Hospital; since 1887 has been At- tending Surgeon to Bellevue Hos- pital; since 1889 has been Attend- ing Surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital. and since 1895 has been Consulting FRANCIS HARTMAN MARKOE. Surgeon to the Orthopedic Hospi- tal. Identified with the teaching staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons since 1880, from that year to 1884 he was Assistant Demon- strator of Anatomy; from 1884 to 18ST was Demonstrator of Anatomy, and since 1887 has been Clinical Lecturer on Surgery. For two years he was Assistant Inspector of Contagious Diseases to the Board of Health of this city. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, the Pathological Society. the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. the Clinical Society, the Sur- gical Society, and the Medical and Surgical Society. He is a mem- ber of the Century, University, New York Yacht. St. Andrew's Golf. Meadow, and Medical clubs, and is a life member of the New York
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Geographical Society, the New York Historical Society, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
MARKOE, JAMES WRIGHT, the younger of the two sons- both physicians and surgeons-of the well-known Dr. Thomas Masters Markoe, of New York City, was born here in 1862. and in 1885 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was admitted to the New York Hospital, on the sur- gical side, and remained there for eighteen months. Subsequently for six months he was connected with the Nursery and Child's Hos- pital. Going abroad, he studied in the Frauen Clinic of Munich, Germany. After his return to New York City he was for one year Resi- dent Physician of the Sloane Ma- termity Hospital, this institution being opened by him. With others, in 1890 he founded the Midwifery Dispensary, which, in 1892, was absorbed by the Society of the Ly- ing-In Hospital. Dr. Markoe has been Attending Physician at this hospital since 1892. Ile is a mem- ber of the New York Academy of JAMES WRIGHT MARKOF, M.D. Medicine, the New York Patho- logical Society, the Society for Re- lief of Widows and Orphans, and the Century and Racquet clubs. He was married, in 1894, to Annette B., daughter of David Wetmore. of New York City, and has a daughter.
SEAMAN, LOUIS LIVINGSTON, was graduated from Cornell University, from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from the Medical Department of the University of New York. where he took a post-graduate course in medicine, and from the Law Department of the University of New York. He also studied medicine in the Universities of Vienna, Paris, and Edinburgh. He was four years Resident Surgeon of the Emigration Hospital, Ward's Island, and for six years was Chief of Staff of the Blackwell's Island Hospital. He was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at London in 1881, as he was to that at Berlin in 1893, and that at Moscow in 1897. In 1898 he became Surgeon to the First Regiment of Volunteer Engi- neers, with the rank of Major, and as such participated in the invasion and conquest of Porto Rico under General Miles in the recent war
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with Spain. He is President of the Cornell University Club, and is a member of the Calumet, Lotos, Players', and Reform clubs, the So- ciety of Colonial Wars, the New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, the Pathological Society, the State Medical Society, and the Medical Union. He was the donor, in 1898, of the " "Varsity Challenge Cup," the perpetual challenge cup of the Rowing Association of American Colleges. Hle was born in Newburgh, N. Y., October 17, 1851, and descends from the Seamans of Suffolk and Falmouth, England, being eighth in descent from the first American ancestor in this line, and is also descended from the Livingston family of Scotland and Livings- ton Manor, being ninth in descent from the first ancestor in America.
LUSK, WILLIAM THOMPSON, one of the most eminent of New York physicians, held the Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1871 until his death, June 13, 1897, while from 1890 until his death he was President of the Faculty of this famous college. He was Professor of Physiology and Microscopical Anatomy in the Long Island College Hospital from 1869 to 1871, and was Lecturer on Physiology in the Harvard Medical College in 1870-71. The announcement of his ap- pointment as Professor of Physiology in the Medical School of Har- vard College reached him a few hours after he had accepted the Chair of Obstetrics in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was ap- pointed Visiting Physician to the Nursery and Child's Hospital in 1870, and the following year became Obstetrical Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. From 1871 to 1873 he was co-editor of the New York Jedi- cal Journal, with Dr. James B. Hunter. He held the positions of Visit- ing Physician to Charity Hospital, Consulting Physician to the Mater- nity Hospital and to the Foundling Asylum, Consulting Obstetrician to the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York, Visiting Obstetri- cian to the Emergency Hospital, and Gynecological Surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital. He served terms as President of the American Gynecological Society, as Vice-President of the New York Obstetri- cal Society, as President of the New York State Medical Society, and as Honorary President of the Obstetrical Section of the Berlin Medi- cal Congress. He was Corresponding Fellow of the Paris Academy of Medicine, was Honorary Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Lon- don, was Honorary Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh, was Corresponding Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Paris, and was Corresponding Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Leipsic. His famous work on " The Science and Art of Midwifery," which first appeared in 1881, has passed through four editions, and has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, and Arabic. Dr. Lusk was one of the first to propound the germ theory of disease, which he did in his paper on the " Nature, Causes, and Prevention of Puerperal
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Fever," read before the International Medical Congress at Philadel- phia in 1876. He published numerous important articles on gylle- cology and obstetrics, with some on physiology, which he had made a specialty at the beginning of his professional career. He married. in 1864, Mary Hartwell, daughter of S. B. Chittenden, of Brooklyn. Of his five children, two sons and two daughters survive him. The eldest son, Dr. Graham Lusk, is Professor of Physiology in the Medi- cal Department of Yale University. The other, Dr. William C. Lusk. is engaged in practice in New York City. The late Dr. Lusk was born in Norwich, Conn., May 23, 1838, the son of Sylvester Graham Lusk and Elizabeth Freeman Adams. During the boyhood of Dr. Lusk his father removed to New York City and became head of the mercantile firm of Lusk, Lathrop & Company. Dr. Lusk attended Rev. Albert Spooner's school at Norwich, Conn., Anthon's Grammar School in New York City, and Russell's Military School at New Haven. He entered Yale College in 1855, but was forced to leave at the end of the first year on account of his eyes. But he subsequently received from Yale the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws. After a year in business, finding his eyes still troubling him, he made a trip to Geneva, Switzerland, to consult the famous oculist, Dr. Maunoir. He had always taken an interest in chemistry and physiology, and. after his stay at Geneva, he determined to study medicine. He spent two years in medical study at Heidelberg University, and another at Berlin. He returned to America to volunteer in the Civil War. He refused an appointment on the staff of Governor Buckingham, of Con- nectient, and enlisted with the Seventy-ninth Highlanders, New York Volunteers. He participated in the first battle of Bull Run, and sub- sequently won the commissions of Second Lieutenant and Captain. He was also Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. He commanded two companies of troops in New York City during the draft riots of 1863. He resigned in October, 1863, and the following year was grad- uated as valedictorian from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Going abroad in May, 1864, he studied four months under Sir James Y. Simpson, of Edinburgh; spent six months in Paris: for four months studied under Carl Braun at Vienna, and spent two months with Sei- fert at Prague. Returning to America, he was associated in practice for a time with Dr. Robert Hubbard, of Bridgeport, Conn. Between 1866 and 1873 he was associated in practice in New York City with . the late Dr. Fordyce Barker, a relative.
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