The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.
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- 1878
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Credit: The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tions for the insane. Early in 1849 he re- ceived the appointment of pliys. and superior officer of the Bloomingdaie asykim for the insane in the city of New York, and held that position lill^June, 1852, when he re- signed, with the view, after attending to some l>asiness engagements, of sp>ending some time in study and travel both in this country and Europe. In October of the san>e year his ]>urpose was changed by undertaking, at the iavitation of President Fillmore, the work of establishing a hospital for the insane of the army and navy, and of the District of Colnm- Ivia. Having built up and thoroughly equipped and organized the government hasp, for the insane, and treated upwards of 4,000 patients in it, and thrice enlarged the buildings, and procured the extension of the grounds from 195 to 420 acres, he, in July, 1877, accepted the invitation of the governors of the New York hosp. to return to the charge of the Bloomingdale asylum for the insane, with the title of med. sup't. He was act. ass't surg. in the army hi the civil war, and, in connectiori with the government hosp. fi)r the insane, conducted a gen. hosp. for U. S. vols. While in Washington he was a member of the med. asso. of the District of Columbia; a member and the presiding offi- cer of the firet board of school commissioners in the county of Washington, D. C.; a mem- ber, by appjintment of the President, and for some time the presiding officer, both of the levy court and of the board of metropolitan po- lice commissioners of the District of Colum- bia ; a member of the board of trustees and of the executive committee of Columbian tmiv.; a member and one of the vice-presi- dents of the board of directors of the Colum- bia hosp. for women and lying-in asylum ; a member of the Washington national monu- ment soc, and a member of the executive committee of the Am. colonization soc, of which he is a life-director. He is a member of the Aui. med. asso., and of the asso. of med. sup'ls of Am. institutions for the insane, and is now and has been for several years the president of the latter asso. Dr. Nichols at- tended the International med. congress, which assembled in Philadelphia in Sept., 1876, and read a j^aper before the section on mental diseases On the Best J.Iode of Pro- viding for the Subjects of Chronic Insanity, which was published in the Transactions of the congress. He is the author of the re- ports of the Bloomingdale asylum for the years 1849-51, and of the government hosp. for the insane from 1852 down to his withdrawal from the charge of that institution, and of a series of propositions relating to the care in public asylums of all classes of the insane, adopted by the asso. of sop'ts in 1866 ; and of a series adopted by the association in 1875, relating to the care of inebriates. His views upon most practical questions respect- ing the legal relations of the insane, the hos- pital or asylum provision that should be made for them, and their personal treatment, may be found in the proceedings of the annual meet- ings of the asso. of sup'ts from 184910 1877 in- clusive, published in the American Jonr^jal of Insanity. Dr. Nichols was first married in Nov., 1857, to Ellen G., daughter of the late John W. Maury, of Washington, D. C, who died in June, 1865. His second and present wife, to whom he was married in May, 1872, is Sarah L., daughter of the late Prof. Alvan Lathrop, of Rochester, N. Y. GEDDINGS, ELI, Charleston, S. C, was born in Newberry dist., S. C, in 1799, Having received an ordinary edification and studied medicine, he was licensed in 1820 by an examining board to practise medicine. In the winter of 1821—22 he attended lectures in the med. dep't of the univ. of Pa., and during- 182,4 rentoved to Charleston, where, in 1825, he received the first degree conferred by the med. coll. of S. C. Subsequently he R]>ent a year in medical study abroad, and on his return to Charleston was appointed de- mons, of anat. in the med. coll. of S. C. Afterwards he was called successively to the chairs of anatomy and physiol(;>gy, of surgery, and of the theory and practice of medicine. Subsequently he served as prof, in the univs. of Md. and New York city for a short tima and resigned. Other professorial positions were tendered him, but he preferred returning to the univ. of S. C, where he resumed the duties of prof, of surgeiy, which he still con- tinues to discharge. EIGS, JOHN FORSYTH, Philadel- phia, Pa., son of Prof. C. D. Meigs, was born in Philadelphia in Oct., 181S, and graduated from the med. dep't of the imiv, of Pa. in 1838. He has always practised in Philadelphia, and is the author of a Treatise on the Diseases of Children, which, origi- nally published in 1857, has gone through many editions. REYNOLDS, JOHN P., Boston, Mass., graduated froni Harvard univ. A. 11. in 1845, and M. D. from its med. dep't in 1852. He is a member of the Mass. med. soc, having- been admitted in 1853 ; of the Boston soc. for med. improvement; of the obstetrical soc. of Boston; of the Suffolk dist. med. soc, of which he is a councillor ; of the Mass. med. benevolent soc; of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0796.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
