8. The birth and death of pain, a poem, by S. Weir Mitch¬ in California was unavailing and in obedience to a sentiment of ell, M.D., LL.D., Philadelphia. of his own he was carried to die in his old college room not The of Dr. J. C. Warren and William T. G. Morton portraits long after a speech made ata class reunion. His last residence are inserted, and as well an engraving showing the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, which occurred Oct. 16, was Newcastle, Delaware. 1846, and in which the portraits of those present are seen John P. Atwater, M.D., last surviving member of the class grouped about the patient (George Abbott), who is lying on the of 1834 at Yale College, died at his home in Poughkeepsie, on table at the where Morton has the anesthesia period completed 23. was born in 1813 at where his and the is just for the knife of Dr. Warren. The May He Carlisle, Pa., father, patient ready after his figures present are those of Drs. H. J. Bigelow, A. A. Gould, the Rev. Jeremiah Atwater, completing professional J. C. Warren, J. Mason Warren, W. T. G. Morton, Samuel studies, settled. In 1870 he removed to Poughkeepsie. Parkman, George Hayward and S. D. Townsend. Of these, Joel Washington Smith, M.D., Charles City, Iowa, June 6, J. C. Warren was at the time of surgery in the Med¬ professor 72 years. Dr. Smith was a member of the American ical Department of Harvard University ; J. Mason Warren and aged H. J. Bigelow afterward became such. Dr. Parkman was Medical Association, Iowa State Medical Society, Cedar murdered by Webster ; Dr. George Hayward was at the time Valley, and Wapsia Valley Medical Societies ; International Dr. the chief surgeon of the Massachusetts General Hospital ; Medical Congress, Philadelphia 1876, and Washington 1887 ; was then of Marine at Chel¬ Townsend surgeon the Hospital American Public Health Association, American Association for sea, having succeeded his father, Dr. David Townsend, in that capacity. the Advancemant of Science, etc. As a souvenir of one of the most interesting events of Alonzo D. Tagert, M. D., June 16, aged 53 years; gradu¬ modern medical history, the book will find a welcome in the ated in 1864 from Medical Department of the University of library of every progressive surgeon who is fortunate enough in his native State until when he to obtain it. Vermont. He practiced 1884, settled in Chicago and remained up to the time of his death. -Wm. Allison Todd, M.D., Chariton, Iowa, March 24, at NECROLOGY. one time president of the Iowa State Medical Society.-Isaac VanTyleGoltra, M.D., Springfield, 111., June 12,aged 77 years. William Thompson Lusk, M.D., born May 23, 1838, in Nor¬ -R. J. Goodman M.D., Sparks, Ga., June 16.-Victor S. wich, Conn., died of cerebral apoplexy at his residence in New Jourdon, M.D., St. Louis, June 13, aged 80 years.-Samuel York city, June 12. Having entered Yale College in 1859 he M. Martin, M.D., Greenfield, Ind., June 14, aged 55 years.- left it after his freshman year to enlist in the Union army but M. M. Powell, M.D., Collinsville, 111., June 19.-Nicholas in 1872 he received his honorary degree of A.M. from this insti¬ Schenkel, M.D., Allegheny, Pa., June 9, aged 40 years.-Asa tution and in 1893 that of LL.D. During the war he rose from F. Pattee, M.D., (instead of Asa F. Potter, Journal, p. 1202). the humble rank of private to that of Captain of the 79th Infan¬ try N. Y. Volunteers, otherwise "the Highlapders" from which regiment he was mustered out Feb. 28, 1863. He was gradu¬ PUBLIC HEALTH. ated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1864 and In N. J.— The health afterward pursued his studies in Heidelberg, , Edin¬ The Scarlet Fever Epidemic Plainfield, authorities, aided the physicians, are investigating the burgh, Paris, and . Dr. Lusk won his reputa¬ by city sources of the which seems to have been of a mild tion from many been contributor and medical epidemic, pursuits, having to all of editor, lecturer and professor in the Long Island Hospital Med¬ form and found exist among classes the people. No- been in as ical College, the and the Bellevue Hos¬ favors have shown the general quarantine, and the has so far abated as to allow a few pital Medical College,a visiting and consulting physician of many a consequence epidemic of the schools to the summer vacation. hospitals and an active member of several scientific bodies. days opening previous His most enduring distinction in all likelihood is his treatise Draining New Jersey Marshes.—The reclamation of the Passaic on "TheScience and Art of Midwifery" (1880), which has been and Hackensack meadows is under discussion. The two are made familiar abroad in several languages. He leaves three about eighteen miles long, extending from Elizabeth to Hack¬ surface is daughters and two sons. ensack, and their width averages four miles. The Frederick J. McNulty, M.D., Georgetown Medical College in general five feet above low water level and a trifle above high or of 1860, died in Boston, Mass., June 14, at which date he was tide. The soil is either blue clay peat, the depth the from ten to Superintendent of the Austin Farm Insane Asylum. He was former ranging for the most part fifteen feet and less than born in Richmond, Va., in 1835 and was an officer with a record the depth of the latter being generally eight feet. of in of a service under four flags, to-wit, the United States, the Mr. C. C. Vermeule the State Geological Survey his- Confederate, the Chilian and the Cuban. Recovered from report discusses the relative cost of plans, and averages the wounds in battle, with a diplomatic training and an experience price at about $47 an acre. The accruing advantages to com¬ in Ludlow Street jail under bonds not to enter the Cuban army merce, manufacturing and agriculture would more than coun¬ he finally settled in Worcester, Mass., and in 1879 removed to terbalance the estimated outlay of $1,268,400. The health and Boston. He was a member of Camp Lee, Confederate Veter¬ welfare of the whole meadow district and contiguous territory, best a ans of Richmond and the Massachusetts Medical Society. it is suggested, can be promoted by single public Henry Loewenstein, M.D. University Giessen, Germany, authority planning to improve navigation and drain by the not 1857, for many years a police surgeon, died at his home in same work. The newspapers in their comments can forego Brooklyn, N. Y., June 10, aged -59 years. the tempting allusions to offensive odors, omnipresent malaria Samuel S. Troth, M.D., Jefferson, Philadelphia, 1849, died and "Jersey mosquitoes," but vote the proposition of redemp¬ in that city June 11. He was long a member of the Pennsyl¬ tion as feasible. vania Medical Society. A Yellow Fever Menace.—A San Francisco telegram to the George Kerr Edwards, M.D., son of a regular army sur¬ N. Y. Herald, dated June 13, reports the arrival of the City of geon, a Princeton graduate of class 1889, and an alumnus of Para flying the yellow flag. When one day out from Panama, the University of Pennsylvania, died in Princeton, N. J,, June a lady passenger died from yellow fever, and a few days there¬ 14. After attaining his medical degree he spent a year in hos¬ after the captain also succumbed. None of the twenty pas¬ pital work in Philadelphia and subsequently in the Johns sengers showed symptoms of the disease, but a quarantine was Hopkins Hospital. After nine months devotion to duty in the very properly ordered. Health officer Dr. Doty maintains 'latter institution tuberculosis manifested itself, since when in that a fever epidemic in is out of question and that his own words he kept "chasing health and hope." A sojourn the present menace, if such it may be called,, began on the

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