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

Date:: 1878

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$3S iT.GS he was apptiinted member of the board <>r eilucalion (if I'hila., and has been reap- pointed to that position every three years since, I [e is at present medical director of St. Mary's hosp. During the war he was an active memljer of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refresihrncnt Saloon, which institution he served as surgeon-in-charge during the entire continuance of the war. He also assisted in the organization and was one of the corpora- tors of the Coo]3er Shop Soldiers' Home, the first institution of the kind established in the country, serving as its vice-president. He has been an extensive contributor to the liter- ature of his profession, his writings having n])peared in*the leading medical journals. Of his most important papers may i)e mentioned : Variola; its Nature and Treatment, in which was advocated a compensating nutri- tive treatment; Diphtheria, and Puer- jieral Convulsions. Many biographies of deceased physicians have come from his pen. HARLOW, HENRY INHLLS, Augusta, Maine, son of Eleazer and Ruth Harlow, was born in Westminster, Wind- liam CO., Vermont, April 9th, 1S21. His academic education was obtained at the Ashby (Mass.) acad., and Burr seminary, Manchester, Vt., and he pursued his medical studies in the offices of Dr. Alfred Hitchcock, of Ashby, Mass., Prof. Ray Palmer, of Woodstock, Vt., and in the Harvard med. school, Boston, and Berkshire med. school, Piltsfield, graduating from the latter in 1843. He entered Vermont asylum for the insane, Brallleborough, \'t., as ass't phys., 1844, but removed to the Augusta (Me.) insane hos])., in the same capacity, in 1845. In 1852 he was jiromolet! lo the superinlendency of that institution. His specialty is treatment of the insane, and nervous diseases. He was presi- dent of the Maine med. asso. for one year, elected 1S61 ; and member of the asso. of med. superintendents of Am. institutions for the insane. His contributions to medical literature have been mostly in reports of the instilution of which he is superintendent. Ii 1S52 he married l^ouisa S., daughter of William A. Brooks, Esq., of Augusta, Me. MTCHEE, RICHARD ERASER, Montgomery, Ala., was born, Feb. I5lh, 1827, at Charleston, S. C, his parents being of Huguenot and Scotch ancestry. After receiving an academic education he matriculated at the med. coll. of the State of S. C, graduating therefrom March lilh, 1S47. He commenced the ]iiactice of his profession in liis native city, where he con-. tinued until 1S61, when he entered the ser- vice of the Confederate States as surgeon in the army of northern \'^a. At the close of th? war he located in Montgomery, Ala., where he has since remained. He was in 1872 vice-president of the Am. med. asso.; in 1869 president of the med asso. of the State of Ala,; in 1S68 vice-president, in 1874 cen- sor, and in 1876 orator of the same organiza- tion ; and is now president of the med. and surg. soc. of Montgomery, Ala., having pre- viously been its corres. secretary for ten years. Among his contributions , to the lit- erature of the profession have been pa])ers on Function of the Ciliary Processes of the Choroid Coat of the Eye; Break-bone Fever; Flemorrhagic Malarial Fever; Purpursemia; Yellow Fever Epidemic in Montgomery, Ala., 1873, ^^^- ' Dmhig a portion of the period of his professional residence in Charleston, he served as prof, of mat, med. in the med. institute, and demonstrator of anat. in that institution for ten years; was counsellor of the med. asso. of the State of S. C. ftjr many years. He was married, Feb. 15th, 1S54, to Annie Rivers, of Charleston, S. C, MOWRY, ROBERT B., was born in Pittsburgh, Dec. 23d, 1813. Grad- uating from the collegiate section of the Western univ. of Pa., he entered Jefferson med. coll., and in 1836 received his degree of M. D. Establishing himself at Allegheny City, he built up an e.xtcnsive general practice in v\hich he is still engaged. He has de- voted much time to the study of gyiuecology, and his researches have tended to the mate- rial advance of medical knowledge in this direction. He is a member of the Am. med. asso; of the State med. soc, of which he is jiresident; of Allegheny co. med. soc, of which he was also president; and is an asso- ciate fellow of the Philadelphia coll. of l)hys. He was married, June 6th, 1836, to Arianna R., daughter of James M. Riddle, Esq., of Pittsburgh. RANKIN, DAVID NEVIN, Allegheny, Pa., second son of Dr. William and Caroline (Nevin) Rankin, was born in Ship- pensburg. Pa., Oct. 27th, 1834. Receiving his preliminary education at Newville acad., he entered Jefferson med. coll., graduating therefrom in March, 1854. In conjur.ction with his fiither he jiractised in Shippensburg until the breaking out of the rebellion. Aji- ])ointed an act. a'^s't surg. of vols., he served during the war in hospital and field, being detailed to assist in organizing several of the more important of the U. S. ainiy hosps.$

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