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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![committee on publications; of the Suffollc district med. soc, of which he is councillor; of the Boston med. asso.; an honorary mem- ber of the Boston soc. for med. observation; of the Boston soc. for med. improvement; and of the Boston med. benevolent soc, of which he was president in 1S77. Is visiting physician to the Mass. gen. hosp. 'ORMLEY, THEODORE G., Phila- delphia, ]?a., was born in Cumber- land CO., Pa., April 1st, 1826, and was brought up ill Carlisle, becoming in due cours2 a student at Dickinson coll., although he did not graduate there. After the pre- scribed preliminary course of study, pursued under the direction of Dr. John J. Myers, in Carlisle, he matriculated, and in clue time re- ceived his degree of M. D. He grew to man- hood in very humble circumstances, and had not only his own way to make, but to support his mother, in which duty he always proved himself a go jd son. His name has for many years been known far and wide as a chemist and toxicologist. For a considerable period he held the chair of chemistry and toxicology in the Starling med. coll., Columbus, O., and of natural science in the Capital univ., Co- lumbus, O. 0:\ the resignation of Prof. R. E. Rogers, in 1877, he was called to fill the chair of chemistry in the med. dep't of the univ. of Pa. From Dickinson coll. he re- ceived in 1S70 the degree of Ph. D., and he has also had conferred upon him that of LL.D. His principal work is entitled, Micro- Chemistry of Poisons, including their Physi- ological, Pathological, and Legal Relations: Adapted to the Use of the Medical Jurist, Physician and General Chemist; illustrated ; New York, 1867, royal 8vo., pp. 668. The steel illustrations were drawn and engraved by Mrs, Wormley. When these illustrations were submitted to engravers, one and all declined to undertake their execution, alleg- ing that the worlc called for was so delicate that it would ruin their eyesight. This proved a great disappointment to the author, but his devoted wife resolved that the illustrations should be executed in the manner designed by her husband, set herself to master the art of steel-plate engraving, and, having mastered it, completed all the illustrations herself. How well she succeeded in her self-imposed task is very felicitously stated by the Ameri- can Literary Gazette, of Sept, i6th, 1867, which, speaking of the illustrations, says, They are of the highest order of merit in their kind, and the courage of the fair artist and its excellent results are of great value, not only in the art and science concerned, but as a proof of that executive faculty that many men deny to women. Professor Wormley was appointed a member of the centennial medical commission, having in charge the arrangements for the International medical congress of 1876, and was a delegate there- from to the International med. ci^ngress, held in Philadelphia in Sept., 1876. He delivered an address before this body on Medical Chemistry and Toxicology,'' which is published in its Transactions. BROWN-SEQUARD, CHARLES ED- OUARD, New York city, was l)oru in the island of Mauritius in the year 1S18, the son of Edvs'ard Brown, of Philadelphia, and of a French lady named Sequard. Plis edu- cation was obtained principally in Paris. He graduated from the Paris univ. as bachelor of lettres in 1838, and as bachelor of science in 1839. Pursued his medical studies at the Ecole de medecine, Paris, from which he re- ceived the degree of M. D. in 1846. Subse- quently he became a fellow of the Royal coll. of phys., London, England. In 1855 he was appointed prof, of physiology in the med. coll. of Va., and in 1864 as prof, of physiology and pathology of the nervous system in the med. dep't of Harvard univ., a position he held for three years. From 1869-71 he filled the chair of comparative and experimental pathology in the Ecole de medecine, Paris. He is a fellow of the Royr.l soc. of England, and of the Am. acad. of sciences. Since graduation he has devoted himself almost exclusively to the pursuit of an extensive series of experimental investiga- tions on important physiological subjects, such as the condition and functions of the different constituents of blood, animal heat, the spinal column and its relations to diseases of the subject, the muscular system, the sympathetic nerves and ganglions, and the effect of the removal of the supra-renal capsules. His in- vestigations on these subjects have been so thorough as to place him in the front rank of living physiologists. He has been very suc- cessful in the treatment of obscure and difficult diseases of the spinal column and the nervous system. For years Charles Sumner was un- der his care for treatment of the injuries sus- tained by him when assaulted in the U. S, senate chamber. He has travelled a great deal between Europe and the United Slates, and has delivered both in England and Am- erica short series of lectures, besides instruct- ing private classes of physicians in his dis- coveries and methods of treatment. He has received several prizes from the French acad. of science. Numerous essays and papers have been published by him giving details of his investigations and their results, and he is the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0804.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
