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MORRIS, ROBERT TUTTLE, well-known surgeon of New York City, was born in Seymour, Conn., May 14, 1857, the son of Hon. Luzon Burritt Morris, Governor of Connecticut, and Eugenia Laura Tuttle. He attended the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, Conn., and Cornell University, and in 1882 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. During the next two years he was a member of the House Staff of Bellevue Hospital, after which he devoted himself to work in various European clinics until 1886. Since the latter date he has been engaged in practice in New York City. He is Adjunct Professor in the New York Post-Graduate Medical College and Hospital, and is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation, the New York State Medi- cal Society, the Medical Society of the County of New York, Bellevue Hospital Alumni Association, the College of Physicians and Sur- geons Alumni Association, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Associa- tion, the New York Medical Union, the American Geographical So- ciety, the Linnean Society of Nat- ural History, the Sons of the Revo- lution, the New England Society, Cornell Alumni Association, and the Cornell University and Alpha Delta Phi clubs. He has been espe- cially prominent in the movements toward the adoption of scientific antiseptic methods in wound treat- ment and immediate operation in ROBERT TUTTLE MORRIS. appendicitis cases. His brochure. " How We Treat Wounds To-day," had a large sale, and was espe- cially effective in reaching those far removed from the metropolitan centers. The report of his studies upon the nature of appendicitis. presented at the meeting of the Pan-American Medical Congress in 1893, was accepted as authoritative in this country and Europe. His " Lectures on Appendicitis " is used as a textbook in medical colleges. He has published various monographs. He is also the author of . " Hopkins Pond," a work of special interest to naturalists and sports- men. He was married, in 1898, to Mrs. Aimee J. ( Reynand ) Maserque, of New York City.
BACON, GORILAMI, having attended private schools in New York City, was graduated from Harvard College in 1875, and from Bellevue
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Hospital Medical College in 1878. From 1877 to 1879 he served as Assistant and House Surgeon of Bellevue Hospital, and then went to Europe, serving several months as Interne in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, and subsequently studying in London and Vienna. In the fall of 1880 he engaged in private practice in New York City, making a specialty of diseases of the ear. He was _Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1880 to 1882, and since the latter date has been Aural Surgeon to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1885 and 1886 he was Lecturer on Diseases of the Ear in the New York Polyclinic. From 1890 to 1894 he was President of the American Otological Society. He is now Consulting Aural Surgeon to the New York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital. as he is also to the Hospital for Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Patients. He was for some time Professor of Otology in the New York Univer- sity Medical College, but recently resigned this chair to accept the Professorship of Otology in the recently organized Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He has frequently contributed to medical journals on his specialty, and is now engaged upon a " Manual of Otology " for the use of his students. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Century, Harvard, University, and Knollwood clubs, and of the Medical Society of the County of New York, the New York State Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine, the American Otological Society, the New York Otological Society, the Physicians Mutual Aid Association, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, and the Society of the Alumni of Bellevue Hospital. He married, in 1881, Miss Bessie Simpkins, of Brooklyn, and has three daughters. He was himself born in New York City, October 13, 1855, and is the son of Daniel G. Bacon, now a retired merchant of New York, who was long prominent in the East In- dia trade. The first paternal ancestor settled at Barnstable, Mass .. in 1639. Dr. Bacon's mother, Mary Dwight Flint, sister of the late Dr. Austin Flint, is a descendant of Colonel William Henshaw, of the Revolution.
ALDERTON, HENRY ARNOLD, attended the Brooklyn Polytech- nic Institute and Columbia College, and in 1885 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, subsequently spending a year in post-graduate work in the Out-patient Depart- ments of Bellevue and Roosevelt hospitals. He then became House Surgeon in St. Joseph's Hospital, Paterson, N. J., and later was eu- gaged in general practice for three years in Brooklyn. A part of 1890 and 1891 was spent in Germany, at the University of Berlin, since which time he has practiced in Brooklyn as a specialist on ear diseases. He is now Aural Surgeon to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, as he is also to the Bushwick Hospital and to the Bushwick and East Brooklyn Dispensary. He is likewise Visiting Otologist to
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the Home for Friendless Women and Children, and Assistant to the Chair of Otology at the Long Island Medical College. He is a member of the New York Otological Society, associate member of the American Otological Society, and a member of the Aurora Grata Club, the Church Club of the Diocese of Long Island, and of Anglo-Saxon Lodge, F. and A. M. He married, in 1885, Marion Stair Decker, and has three children, Dorothy ML., Barbara, and Henry Arnold Alder- ton, Jr. He was himself born in New York City, December 28, 1863, the son of Henry Alderton, a New York merchant. Both of his par- ents were natives of Sussex County, England.
THOMSON, WILLIAM HANNA, was graduated from Wabash Col- lege, Crawfordsville, Ind .; spent the next six years in extensive tray- els in Syria and Egypt, and in study of the Arabic language and liter- ature; entered the Albany Medical College in 1856, and was graduated in 1859. During the next two years he was Assistant Physician in the Quarantine Hospital on Staten Island. In 1862 he engaged in practice in New York City. Dur- ing the Civil War he was ap- pointed New York State Inspector to re-examine recruits for the army, and was subsequently made United States Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment of the Ninth District. After the war he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University Medical College. Ile was also appointed Physician to WILLIAM HANNA THOMSON. Charity Hospital, now the City Hos- pital, and for five years was Chair- man of the Committee of Inspection of the Blackwell's Island institu- tions. He has been Physician to Roosevelt Hospital since 1870, and has been Physician to Bellevue Hospital for a still longer period. Ile is a member of the principal medical societies, and has written on medical and scientific subjects, and contributed articles on Oriental life and literature. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Wabash College in 1857. and from Yale University in 1865. and the degree of Doctor of Laws from the New York University in 1885. He attended the first meeting to organize the New York Civil-service Re- form Association in 1878, and has been a member of its Executive Committee continuously since. Dr. Thomson was born at Beyrout. Syria. November 1. 1833. the son of Rev. William MacClure Thom-
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son, D.D., and Eliza Nelson Hanna. His father was for many years a missionary in Syria, founded the Syrian Protestant College at Bey- rout, and was the author of " The Land and the Book." Dr. Thom- son's great-grandfather, James Thomson, was born in Glasgow, Scot- land, removed to Belfast, Ireland, and emigrated thence to Western Pennsylvania in 1726.
SKENE, ALEXANDER JOHNSON CHALMERS, eminent phy- sician of Brooklyn, was born in Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, June 17, 1838, and is a descendant of the Skenes of Parish Skene, Aber- deenshire, where they have been seated for nearly nine centuries. He was educated in Aberdeen, and, at the age of nineteen, removing to America, continued his studies in the University of Michigan from 1861 to 1862, and was graduated from the Long Island College Hos- pital and Medical School in 1863. He was immediately appointed assistant to Dr. Austin Flint, Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. During the Civil War he entered the Union Army, serving as Assistant Surgeon at De Camp's Hos- pital, David's Island, in 1863, and as Assistant Surgeon at Port Royal and Charleston Harbor, S. C., in 1864. Returning he was appointed Adjunct Professor and Instructor in Long Island Medical College in 1865, and has since been engaged in professional labors in Brooklyn. As a member of General Molineux's staff, and Surgeon of the Second Division, National Guard of New York, he instituted the ambulance corps system, since generally adopted by the National Guard. Ile became Assistant to the Chair of Obstetrics in the Long Island Col- lege Hospital in 1866, Physician to the hospital in 1866, Instructor in Clinical Obstetrics in 1867, Instructor in Clinical Obstetrics and Dis- eases of Women and Children in 1868, Professor of Diseases of Wom- en and Clinical Obstetrics in 1869, Professor of the Medical and Surgi- cal Diseases of Women and Clinical Obstetries in 1870, Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Diseases of Children in 1876. Professor of Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women in 1882. Surgeon to the Hospital in 1885, Dean of the Faculty in 1886-1893. and President of the College in 1893. He also occupied the Chair of Gyne- cology. He has been Professor of Gynecology in the New York Post- Graduate Gynecological School of the Kings County Medical Society. He is a member of the New York Obstetrical Society, and is corre- sponding member of the British, Boston, and Detroit Gynecological societies, as well as of gynecological societies of France, Germany. and Belgium. From 1886-1887 he was President of the American Gynecological Society. In 1891-1892 he was President of the Brooklyn Gynecological Society. In 1893 he became Consulting gynecologist to the Kings County Hospital. His " Treatise on the Diseases of Wom- en" is an accepted authority. He has also published many mono- graphs, articles, lectures, and addresses.
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WIGHT, JARVIS SHERMAN, prominent physician of Brooklyn, is a descendant of Thomas Wight, an emigrant from the Isle of Wight about 1635. He was born at Centreville, Allegany County, N. Y., Jan- uary 4, 1834. In 1861 he was graduated from Tufts College. Attend- ing lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and at the Long Island College Hospital, he was graduated from the latter institution in 1864. Tufts College conferred on him, in 1882, the degree of Master of Arts, and in 1894 that of Doctor of Laws. He is a member of the Kings County Medical Society, the Brooklyn Surgi- cal Society, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, City of New York, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Medicine, the American Surgical Association, and the British Medical Associa- tion. He was Assistant Surgeon, by contract, in the United States Army, and in the Long Island College Hospital was Adjunct Surgeon, Assistant Surgeon, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Reg- istrar of the College, and Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery. He is Visiting Surgeon to the Long Island College Hospital, Professor of Operative and Clinical Surgery. and Dean of the Faculty. He is Consulting Surgeon to Saint Mary's Hospital and the Eastern District Hospital. He has invented an art- ery forceps, a forceps aneurism needle, a self-threading needle adapted to closing abdominal wounds, a pressure forceps for arresting hem- orrhage, a beaked knife for opening the sheaths of blood vessels, an ether inhaler, a bone drill, a pile clamp and hysterectomy clamp, and an instrument to facilitate enteropathy. He has published : " Short- ening of the Lower Limb After Fracture of the Femur," " Lecture on Injuries of the Arm and Forearm," " Structure and Function of the Upper End of the Femur," " Relations of Hygiene to Practical Medi- cine," " Inequalities in the Lengths of the Lower Limbs Before and After Fracture of the Femur," "Several Papers Showing the Differ- ence in Brain Development of Educated and Uneducated Men and Women," " The Inrotators of the Thigh and Three Cases of Injury to the Hip," " Have Surgeons Been Mistaken as to the Natures of Frac- tures of the Base of the Radius? "; " The Displacements of the Femoral Fragments, etc."; " Fracture of the Neck of the Femur." " The Devia- tions of the Heads of Confirmed Inebriates and Incurable Epileptics. ete."; " Dislocation of the Spine, etc."; " A Plea for the Treatment of Criminals," " Sub-pubie Dislocations of the Femur," " Structure of the Os Calcis, etc."; " Fracture of the Femur Near the Knee-Joint," " Dislo- " cation of the Carpus," " Two Cases of Dislocation of the Astragalus," " The Death Penalty," " A Case of Oesophagofomy," " On Exsection of the Knee-Joint," " On the Value of Internal Treatment in Malig- nant Disease," " Ten Cases of Anchylosis of the Elbow-Joint," " An Inquiry into the Structure of the Albumen Molecule," " Treatment of Cancer of the Breast." Among the papers in book form may be men-
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tioned : " A Treatise on Myodynamics," " A Memorial of Frank Hart- ings Hamilton, M.D."; "Suggestions to the Medical Witness," " A Memorial of Orlando Williams Wight. A.M., M.D." He married, Jan- uary 9, 1871, Mary, daughter of Joseph Center, and has three sons. The eldest, Joseph Center, is a lawyer; the second, Jarvis Sherman, Jr., is a physician; the youngest Carol Van Buren, has not yet finished his education.
SATTERLEE, FRANCIS .LE ROY, received his general education in the New York public schools and the University of the City of New York; in 1868 was graduated from the Medical Department of that- University, having also served in Bellevue Hospital, and was awarded the Mott medal for proficiency in surgery. Going abroad he studied in the leading hospitals of England and France and with Sir Joseph Lister, Sir James Y. Simpson, Pro- fessor John Ilughes Bennett, and Sir Erastus Wilson. Returning to ---- New York he engaged in general practice, at the same time pursuing researches in the Department of Therapeutics and Chemistry, and becoming the assistant of Professor John W. Draper. The degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy and Doc- tor of Philosophy were received from the University of the City of New York. During this period he was Surgeon of the Eigthy-fourth Regiment, National Guard, with the rank of Major. He was Medical Director of two insurance compa- nies, and was Attending Physician to two dispensaries. For sixteen FRANCIS LE ROY SATTERLEE. years he was medical officer of the Police Department, and in his capacity as a medico-legal expert was retained for a number of years as adviser to the Corporation Counsel. Since 1869 he has been Professor of Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Therapeutics in the New York College of Dentistry. He was the first Professor of Chemistry in the American Veterinary College. Ile ix now Attending Physician of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and Consult- ing Physician of the Midnight Mission. He is a trustee and Treasurer of the New York College of Dentistry, a trustee of the American Veterinary College, and a trustee of the West Side Savings Bank. Ho is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Medical Society of the County of New York, the Medico-Legal
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Society, the New York Neurological Society, the American Medical Association, the St. Nicholas Society, the New York Historical So. ciety, the American Institute of Civics, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the American Geographical Society, and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. He is an officer of the Society of Colonial Wars, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Society of Arts of London, England. His " Treatise on Gout and Rheumatism " and " The Treatment of Ery- sipelas " excited much interest because of the new ideas propounded in them. He was born in New York City, June 15, 1847, the son of George Crary Satterlee and Mary Le Roy Livingston. He descends from Benedict Satterlee, who emigrated from England to New Lon- don, Conn., prior to 1682. His great-grandfather, Lieutenant Benedict Satterlee, was an officer in the French and Indian War. His father was a prominent New York merchant, one of the founders and, until his death, President of the Washington Fire Insurance Company. Through his mother Dr. Satterlee descends from the famous Liv- ingston family, both Robert and Philip Livingston, signers of the Declaration of Independence being his ancestors.
JEWETT, CHARLES, a leading physician of Brooklyn, the son of George and Sarah ( Hale) Jewett, was born at Bath. Me., in 1842. He was graduated from the Bath High School, and from Bowdoin College in 1864, subsequenty receiving the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Science. For a short time after leaving college he taught the physical sciences. He commenced the study of medicine in 1867, under Hiram Lathrop, of Cooperstown, N. Y., attended three courses of lectures, one at the Long Island College Hospital, one at the University Medical College, and one at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and was graduated from the latter in 1871. He has practiced medicine in Brooklyn since 1871. He is a member of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, was its Presi- dent from 1878 to 1880, and is one of its trustees. He is a member of the Brooklyn Pathological Society. He is a member of the Brook- lyn Gynecological Society, and was its President in 1893. He is a member of the New York Obstetrical Society, and was its President in 1894. He is also a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the American Gyneco- logical Society (being a member of its Council in 1895), the Ameri- can Academy of Medicine, the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid ยท Association (of which he was Vice-President from 1891 to 1893), and is an honorary member of the British Gynecological Society, and the Detroit Gynecological Society, is a Fellow of the International Gyneco- logical Congress, and was Honorary President of the Obstetrical See- tion of the Pan-American Medical Congress in 1893. He has been Professor of Obstetries and Pediatrics in Long Island College Hos-
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pital since 1880, and Obstetrician to the hospital since 1882. He has been Consulting Obstetrician to Kings County Hospital since 1893. For several years he was chief of the Department of Diseases of Chil- dren in Saint Mary's Hospital. He has been Consulting Gynecologist to the Bushwick Hospital since 1894, and a trustee to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital since 1887. He has published " Essentials of Obstetrics" and a " Manual of Childbed Nursing." He is one of the contributors to the American Text-Book of Obstetrics, to Hamilton's System of Legal Medicine, to Keating's Gynecology, and Foster's Handbook of Therapeutics, and is editor of a treatise on obstetrics. For a time he was editor-in-chief of the Annals of the Anatomical and Surgical Society of Brooklyn. He is one of the collaborators of the American Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He married. in 1868, Miss Abbie E. Flagg, of New Hampshire, since deceased, and has two children-Harold F. Jewett, M.D., and Alice Ii. Jewett.
FOWLER, GEORGE RYERSON, well-known physician of Brook- lyn, was born in New York City, December 25, 1848. His father, Thomas W. Fowler, and his mother, Sarah Jane Carman, were both born on Long Island. He was graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1871, and began practice in the Eighteenth Ward of Brooklyn, subsequently locating in the Twenty-first Ward. In 1872 he was appointed to the staff of the Central Dispensary. Two years later he resigned. In 1878 he was commissioned as one of the surgeons of the Fourteenth Regiment, National Guard of New York. The same year he became one of the founders of the Brooklyn Anatomical and Surgical Society, two years later being elected its President. He was also associate editor of the Annals of the Anatomical and Surgical Society. Upon the organization of the Bushwick and East Brooklyn Dispensary, in 1878, he was nominated its first visiting surgeon; while upon the complete organization of its Medical Staff, he was chosen by the latter body as its presiding officer. In 1887 he resigned from the active staff and was made Consulting Surgeon. He was appointed in 1883 Surgeon-in-Chief to the Department of Fractures and Disloca- tions, St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, and subsequently had entire charge of the general surgery of this hospital. He has been Surgeon to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital since its opening in 1887. He was elected President of the Medical Society of the County of Kings for the year 1886. In 1891 he was elected a fellow of the American Sur- gical Association. He is also a permanent member of the American Medical Association. In January, 1892, he was elected a member of the New York Surgical Society. He is likewise a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Brooklyn Surgical Society (of which, in 1891, he was President ), and the Society of Medical Jurisprudence. In 1889 he was elected a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York. When a law was enacted in 1890, separating
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the educating and licensing power in the State, Dr. Fowler was ap- pointed one of the seven members of the Examining Board represent- ing the State Society. At the first meeting of the board he was ap- pointed Examiner in Surgery. He is Consulting Surgeon to the Re- lief (E. D.) Hospital and to the Norwegian Hospital. During a trip- to Europe in 1884 he was present at a meeting for the distribution of ambulance certificates at a watering-place on the Lancashire coast. He there formed the resolution to establish classes for instruction in first aid to the injured on his return to America. Arriving home he set about agitating the question of forming such classes. His connec- tion with the National Guard suggested placing the matter on a sound footing in that organization, and at the State Camp at Peekskill in the following year he established classes for instructing the men in cal- ing for injured persons in emergencies. This was followed by an order from General James McLeer establishing the instruction in the armo- ries as a part of the soldiers' duties during the winter season. In the year following the Surgeon-General of the State ordered similar in- struction to be imparted to all the National Guard organizations in New York. A year later an order was issued from the Adjutant-Gen- eral's office at Washington ordering similar instruction to be given at all military posts of the United States. In the early part of 1890 the Red Cross Society, of Brooklyn, was organized, and Dr. Fowler was elected President. He has made many contributions to the liter. ature of surgery, and has taken an active and prominent part in the work of the societies of which he is a member. In 1873 he married Lonise R. Wells, youngest daughter of the late James Wells, of Nor- ristown, Pa. Of their four children, three are living. Dr. Fowler re- tains his connection with military affairs, being Surgeon of the staff of the Second Brigade, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
DUDLEY, AUGUSTUS PALMER, attended the Portland (Me.) Academy, entered the Medical Department of Bowdoin College, and in 1877 was graduated from the Dartmouth Medical College. He began the practice of medicine in Portland, Me., and for a time was connected with the Maine General Hospital. Removing to New York City in 1881, for eighteen months he was House Surgeon in the Woman's Hospital. Subsequently he became a resident of San Fran- cisco, and for one year was Surgeon in the California Woman's Hos- pital. In 1884 he returned to New York City, where he has been en- gaged in practice since. He became Visiting Gynecologist to Ran- dall's Island Hospital, and to the Northeastern Dispensary. In
1887 he became Instructor in Diseases of Women in the Post-Gradu- ate Hospital Medical College, and in May, 1893, was appointed Pro- fessor of Diseases of Women in the same institution, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Professor Charles Carroll Lee. He is at present Surgeon to the Harlem Hospital. He has performed the
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