The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.

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1878
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    date Sept. 22cl, 1845, that a n.uional med. sOc, to meet yearly, should be formed, and he is now recognized by the profession as the father of the association. Indeed, at its meeting in Detroit, a medal was ordered to be struck, bearing his likeness on one side, and on the reverse the name and date of the organiza- tion. He has been honored, by election, to almost every position wit'.iin its gift; and in 1864-65 was chosen its president. He is now and has been from its formation the chairman of the judicial council of the association. In 1847 he removed to New York, where he prac- tised two years, taking charge, at the solicita- tion of the demonstrator of the coll. of phys. and surg., of its dissecting rooms in the win- ter of 1848, during which year he assumed the editorship of the Annalist. In Sept., 1849, he removed to Chicago to take the chair of physiology and pathology in Rush med. coll. The next year he took, also, the chair of the practice of medicine. His connection with this college continued for ten years. When he arrived in the city there was no medical society in the Slate, and he contrib- uted largely to the formation of one in the Slate and another in the city. For twelve years he served the former as secretary, and in 1855 as president. In 1850 he took an ac- tive part, by lecturing and otherwise, in the movement which culminated in the Mercy hospital, of which he is still the senior attend- ing physician. Here the medical department of the Northwesterrt university holds its clinics. This university conferred on him the honorary degree of A. M. in 1871. In 1855 he started the Norlhwestern Journal, which he conducted u])wards of twenty years; in i860 the jMcd'ical Examiner. He is a most voluminous author and contributor to the vari- ous medical journals. Among his- writings since 1847 the following are the principal: An Essay on the Philosophy of Medicine, and the Spirit in which it should be Stud- ied; Medical Education and Reform'; The Nature and Curability of Heterologous Tumors ; Remedial Value and Proper Use of Alcoholic Diinks; History of Medical Education and Inslilutions in the United States; An Experimental Inquiry, con- cerning some points in the functions of assim- ilation, nutrition and animal heat, also analy- sis of the blood of the renal artery and vein, and that of the iliac artery and vein of the same animal; and Clinical Lectures, a work which has just reached a third edition. At the International medical congress in 1876, he read a paper (;n American Medical Insti- tutions. He is a member of a number of literary and scientific societies, and of the Chicago historical soc. He aided in found ing the Northwestern university, the Chicngo academy of sciences, and the Washingtonian home for the reform of inebriates, of which he is still president. An industrious student and systematic worker, he performs an almost incredible amount of work. He has been a member of the Methodist church since the age of sixteen, and is an ardent advocate of temperance- March 5th, 1838, he married Ann Maria, daughter of late Hon. John Par- ker, of Vienna, N. Y., and they have three children—a daughter and two sons. The elder, F'rank H., is a physician in good prac- tice in Chicago, BOWDITCH, HENRY INGERSOLL,. Boston, Mass., was born at Salem,. Mass., Aug. 9th, 1808. He is the son of Nathaniel Bowditch, translator of the Me- canique Celeste. He passed through the preparatory schools of Salem and Boston tc Harvard coll., at which he graduated in^ 1828, giaduating fiom the Harvard med. coll. in 1833^ and settling in Boston. He held for some years the offices of Jackson' professor of clinical medicine in the Harvard med. school, and of physician at the Mass. genl. hosp, and of the City hosp. of Boston.. In 1876 he was elected to the presidency of the Am. med. asso. ;. presided at its meeting- held in Chicago in June, 1877, and deliv- ered the opening address. During the civil war he was surgeon of the board of enrol- ment in the same city. He was married in 1838. COTTING, BENJAMIN EDDY, Bos- ton, Mass., was born at West Cam- bridge (now Arlington), of English descent,, his father's family iieing from London, and his mother's from Cranbrook, in the county of Kent, an ancestor of hers being rector of Cranbrook church in r630.. He studied at Harvard coll. both in the classical and medi-- cal departments, graduating from that insti- tution A. B. in 1834, and A. M. and M. D. in^ 1837, and settling in Roxbury, Boston.. He- is ex-president of the Mass. med., and hon.. member of the Conn. med. and N. H. med. soc.; member of the council of the American academy of arts and sciences ; associate mem- ber of the Boston soc. for med. imj^rovement;, member of the obs. soc. of Boston; corre- sponding member of the med. soc. of Athens,. Greece;, and of the Academy de Quiriti,. Rome, Italy. He is also consulting physician and surgeon to the Boston cily hosp., and is- the author of Medical Addresses, coi-itain-- ing Nature in Disease ; My First Ques- tion as a Medical Student; Disease a Part of the Plan of Creation. He has contrib-
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