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

Date:: 1878

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$Chnrleston, from wliich institution he graclu- aled in 1S52. lie settled in New York imniediately after turning his attention specially to obstetrics and to the diseases at women and of children. He is prof of ob- stetrics and diseases of women and children in the coll. of phys. and surg. in New York; surgeon to the N. Y. State woman's hosp.; consulting physician to nursery and child's hosp., and St. Mary's hosp., Brooklyn; hon. fellow of the obstet. soc. of London; corre- sponding member of the obstetrical societies of Berlin, Philadelphia, and Louisville; and president of the N. Y. obstet. soc. During former years he has also been physician to Bellevue hosp., St. Luke's hosp., the Strangers' hosp., and the Roosevelt hosp. He is also the author of a work 011 the Dis- eases of Women. He mairied, in 1856, Mary W., daughter of Edwin Gaillard, Esq., of South Carolina; and after her decease, Mary T., daughter of John H. Willard, Esq., of Troy, N. Y. MORRIS, CASPAR, Philadelphia, Pa., was born in that city in 1805. His ancestors have been residents of the same city since the settlement of the colony. He graduated M. D. at the univ. of Pennsyl- vania in 1826, and was resident physician of the Pa. hosp., and after a voyage to India as surgeon of a ship, commenced practice in the city of his nativity, and continued till 1871, when he withdrew from professional pursuits. He has held the position of lecturer of dis- eases of children at the hosp. of the Block- ley almshouse, Philadelphia, and also on the practice of medicine in the Philadelphia med. institute. He has published a volume of lec- tures ou Scarlet Eever. TYRRELL, GERRARD GEORGE, Sacramento, Gal., only son of Gerrard Tyrrell, Esq., was born at Dalkey, county of Dublin, Ireland, Sept. i6th, 1831. Receiv- ing his preliminary professional education at the Carmichael school of med., and at the Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwick hos- pitals, he was made a licentiate in midwifery at the Rotunda hosp. in 1854; graduated from the Royal coll. of surgeons, Ireland, in 1856, and from Kings and Queens coll. of physicians, Ireland, 1859. Coming to the United States he established himself in practice in Milwaukee, where he remained until 1861, being for four years phys. and surg. to St. Mary's hosp. In 1861 he removed to Grass Valley, Nev., and in 1868 to Sacramento, where he has since remained. He is a mem- ber of the Sacramento soc. for medical im- jjrovement; member and permanent secretary (elected 1872) of the Cal. State med. soc.; member of the Am. med. asso.; and corre- sponding member of the Boston gynoecol. soc. He has since 1863 been an occasional con- triijutor to the Pacific Medical and Surgical yotirnal, and other western professional periodicals. Among his more important papers may be mentioned: Therapeutical Value of the Sulphites in Phlegmonous Angina; Nature in Disease; Epidemic Influenza; Continued Fever in Chil- dren ; '' Neurotic Purpura, etc. He was appointed surgeon to the 4th brigade U. G. C. in 1875. ^^^ ^^'^s married, Dec. 7th, 1859, to Louisa, daughter of the late Henry Flood, Esq., M. D., of Peterborough, Canada West, DA COSTA, JACOB M., Philadelphia, Pa., was born in the Island of St. Thomas, W. I., Feb. 7th, 1833. He re- ceived his literary and classical education in Germany, and pursued his medical studies at the Jefferson med. coll. in Philadelphia, his preceptor being Prof. Miitter, of that institu- tion. He graduated in 1852, After passing two years in the hospitals and schools of Paris and Vienna he returned to Philadelphia in 1854, and established himself in practice there. While pursuing a general practice he has devoted himself especially to diseases of the heart and lungs. His contributions to medical literature have been large and upon a variety of subjects, among them being: Medical Diagnosis with Special Reference to Practical Medicine,'' first published in 1864; a monograph on Epithelial Tumors and Cancer of the Skin, 1852; An Enquiry into the Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia, 1855; On Cancer of the Pancreas, 1858; On Serous Apoplexy, 1859 ; Inhalation in the Treatment of Dis- eases of the Respiratory Passages, 1867; The Physicians of the last Century, 1857; numerous articles in the Pennsylvania Hos- pital Reports, and in \h.e. American Journal of Medical Science; and a long series of clinical lectures, which have appeared in the Medical and Surgical Reporter, and the Philadelphia Medical Times, for many years. He was for some time attending physician at the Episcopal hosp., and subsequently held the same position at the Philadelphia and Pa. hos]5itals. In 1864 he was appointed lecturer on clinical medicine at the Jefferson med. coll., and in the spring of 1872 was chosen by the trustees of that institution to fill the chair of prof, of the theory and practice of medi- cine, vacant by the death of Prof Dickson, In i860 he married .Sarah, daughter of George Brinton, Esq., of Philadelphia,$

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