professor of nervous diseases in the Boston University School Deaths of Medicine; consulting neurologist to the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and the Westborough Insane Hospital; died at his home in November 1. Miller Boston, Brigadier-General George Sternberg, Surgeon- Edward S. M.D. Eclectic Medical Cin¬ U. S. from 1893 to 1902 ; died at his home in Crill, Institute, General, Army, state senator in the Florida D. November 77. Dr. was cinnati, 1865; aged 72; Legis¬ Washington, C, 3, aged Sternberg lature from 1880 to 1885 and from 1897 to born at Hartwick . 8, 1901 ; state treas¬ Seminary, Otsego County, Y., June urer 1885 received his education in that institution and from to 1889; and from 1889 until the time of his 1838; preliminary death of the East Florida State and Trust Com¬ commenced the study of medicine at Cooperstown, . Y., president pany, Palatka ; once mayor of that city; died at his home under the preceptorship of Dr. Horace Lathrop and then October attended lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 23, from uremia. in the of New York from which he was in Isaac L. Firebaugh, M.D. Miami Medical College, Cin¬ City graduated 1875 1860. He entered the Army as assistant surgeon in 1861, was cinnati, ; aged 68 ; of Robinson, 111. ; a Fellow of the to in to in to lieutenant- American Medical Association ; for many years a member promoted captain 1866, major 1875, and colonel in 1891 and two years later was appointed Surgeon- once president of the Aesculapian Society of the Wabash General of the Army ; he was retired June 8, 1902. During Valley; for forty years a practitioner of Robinson; died in his more than forty years of active service in the Army, the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, October 25, from cir¬ General Sternberg was repeatedly on duty against Indians, rhosis of the liver. in epidemics of yellow fever and cholera in addition to the Julius Augustus Post, M.D. Bellevue Hospital Medical ordinary duties which pertain to medical officers; he was College, 1866; aged 68; a member of the Michigan State Med¬ a member and secretary ot ical Society; a medical cadet the Havana Yellow Fever during the Civil War ; for Commission of the National more than forty years a prac¬ Board of Health in 1879; a titioner of Lansing, Mich. ; delegate from the United once assistant superintendent States to the International of the Lansing City Hos¬ Sanitary Conference at pital ; died suddenly on the Rome, in 1885 ; was detailed street in Lansing, October to make investigations in 28, from heart disease. Brazil, Mexico and Cuba Horace Greeley Norton, relating to the etiology and M.D. University of of fever, Pennsyl¬ prevention yellow vania, Philadelphia, 1 8 8 0 ; 1887 to was from 1889, and aged 57; a member of the consulting bacteriologist to Medical Society of New Jer¬ the health officer of the port sey and secretary of the State of New York in 1892 when Board of Medical Exami¬ the cholera ships came to ners ; for two terms president that port. He was president of the Mercer and Mon- of the American Medical As¬ mouth County medical socie¬ sociation in 1896 ; president ties ; died in St. Francis' of the Association of Mili¬ Hospital, Trenton, October tary Surgeons of the United 27, from cerebral hemor¬ States in 1894; once presi¬ rhage. dent of the American Public White Health Association ; presi¬ John Stevenson, dent of the section on Mili¬ M.D. Medical College of tary Medicine and Surgery Ohio, Cincinnati, 1883 ; aged of the Pan-American Con¬ 56; a Fellow of the Ameri¬ can Medical Association act¬ gress ; vice president of the ; American So¬ ing assistant "surgeon, U. S. Microscopical P. H. since 1893 and in ciety and a member of many S., other learned societies at HP > charge of the office in Cin¬ home and abroad. General cinnati ; for thirty years a in was best known practitioner that city; died Sternberg at his home in Walnut as a bacteriologist ; his work Hill, October from on "Bacteria" published in Cincinnati, 24, 1884 and his "Manual of heart disease. Bacteriology" which ap¬ Ira Morton Martin, M.D. peared in 1892 are standard Kentucky School of Medi¬ works. He was a pioneer in cine, Louisville, 1891 ; aged of 49 a member of this line research wcfrk Brigadier-General Ceorge Miller Steknberg, 1838-1915. ; formerly and was a prolific writer on the State Medical Society of the etiology of diseases, com¬ Wisconsin; a specialist on parative value of methods of disinfection, and the like. Since diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat ; for the last nine his retirement from the Army, General Sternberg has resided years a practitioner of Green Bay, Wis. ; died suddenly on in Washington, D. C On his seventieth birthday, June 8, 1908, the Oneida Reservation, from heart disease. he was given a complimentary banquet by residents of Wash¬ Hugh Clayton Blair, M.D. Vanderbilt University, Nash¬ ington, both military and civilian, who paid tribute to the ville, Tenn., 1908; aged 29; a Fellow of the American Medi¬ service to humanity rendered by General Sternberg, and after cal Association and local surgeon of the Sante Fe System at a number of laudatory addresses, presented him with a silver Rincón, . M., while on his way to Albuquerque, . M., to loving cup. While General Sternberg made an enviable seek hospital care for appendicitis ; died on the train, record as a military sanitarian, having been repeatedly com¬ October 27. mended in orders, he was a scientist of world-wide fame, William M. Johnson, M.D. American Eclectic Medical and a genial gentleman beloved by all with whom he came College, Cincinnati, 1857; aged 86; a member of the Illinois in contact. State Medical Society and president of the Wayne County Nathaniel D. Cox, M.D. Medical College of Indiana, Medical Society in 1910 ; for sixty years a resident of John- Indianapolis, 1884; aged 73; formerly a Fellow of the Ameri¬ sonville, 111. ; died at his home, August 13, from carcinoma. can Medical Association; a member of the Indiana State Josias Louis Duval, M.D. McGill University, Montreal, Medical Association and a charter member of the Owen 1898; aged 39; of St. John West, . B.; major in the Cana¬ County Medical Society ; a veteran of the Civil War ; died dian Army Medical Corps and on duty with the First Cana¬ at his home in Spencer, Ind., October 27, from heart disease. dian Field Ambulance in Flanders ; is reported on the Edward Porter Colby, M.D. Long Island College Hos¬ casualty list of September 1, as having died in Flanders. pital, Brooklyn, 1861; aged 76; acting assistant surgeon, John Ditmars VanNuys, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, United States Navy, for three years during the Civil War; 1870; aged 69; formerly a Fellow of the American Medical Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Florida International University Medical Library User on 06/04/2015 Association ; for twenty years physician at the Osawatamie Marriages State Hospital, Osawatamie, Kan. ; died at the home of his son in New Castle, Ind., November 1, from myocarditis. Ira D. Knotts, M.D. University of Pennsylvania, Phila¬ P. A. Surg. Julian Mason Gillespie, U. S. P. H. S., Ellis delphia, 1887; aged 58; formerly a Fellow of the American Island, N. Y.,'to Miss Verna Duplantis of New Orleans, in Medical Association ; and president of the »Greene County New York City, October 20. (Pa.) Medical Society; of Davistown, Pa.; died in a hospital Franklin in October from cerebral Benjamin Montgomery, M.D., Stevens City, Pittsburgh, 22, hemorrhage. Va., to Miss Lucy Deahl of Barryville, Va., at Washington, Timothy Jerome Regan, M.D. College of Physicians and D. C, October 27. in the of New. for Surgeons City York, 1884; aged 54; many Daniel James Ellison, M.D., Lowell, Mass., to Miss Anna a member of the staff of the New York Hos¬ years Polyclinic Gale Newhall of Lynn, Mass., at Swam Scott, Mass., pital and of the Brooklyn Board of Health ; died at his home November 3. in Brooklyn, October 27, from nervous breakdown. Samuel Hick to Herbert John Leard, M.D., Forest Hills, Boston, Eugene Knowlton, M.D. Harvard Medical School, Miss Isabelle H. Earnshaw of West Roxbury, Boston, 1891; aged 49; formerly a member of the Massachusetts October 26. Medical Society and a practitioner of Cambridge, and Mass., Louis to Belfast, Me.; died at his winter home in National City, James Quesenberrv, M.D., Worthington, Ky., Calif., October 24, from, septicemia. Mrs. Ada Freeman Bauer of St. Matthews, Ky., October 28. D. Johnston, M.D. St. Hubert Benbury Haywood, M.D., Raleigh, N. C, to Miss George Washington University, E. Manor of Louis, 1858; aged 79; for many years president of the St. Margaret Harrisonburg, Va., October 19. Louis Car Shops, but for the last thirty-five years a ranch¬ Milton Augustus Broemser, M.D., Holly, Colo., to Miss man and real estate dealer of San Antonio, Texas ; died at Berenice Edwords of Kansas City, Mo., October 26. his home in that city, October 28. Abraham Hyman, M.D., New York City, to Miss Belle Joseph Robert Rosson, M.D. University of Alabama, Davis of Erie, Pa., in New York City, October 28. Mobile, 1888; aged 46; formerly a druggist, auditor of the Edgar Paul McNamee, M.D., Cleveland, Ohio, to' Miss Southern Express Company and a postoffice inspector; editor Ethel Marian Pétrie of Oneida, . Y., October 30. of the Culhnan died at his home in Democrat; Cullman, Ala., Lawrence . Kelley, M.D., Des Moines, Iowa, to Miss Sue July 29, from nephritis.