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Laughlin, the youngest daughter of Major McLaughlin of Jacksonville, and was sur- vived by the wife and a little son.

The thoroughness with which he did all his work will best be shown by the fact that he had studied medicine fourteen years before he began to practice and graduated from no fewer than four col- leges and attended clinics in five differ- ent countries. He was a fluent speaker of, and well versed in, the literature of all modern languages, a classical scholar and had a broad knowledge of the history of the world. He was the first to discover the existence of Malta fever in Venezuela. After returning home from Washington, in 1897, with Dr. B. Mosquera, he worked up a number of cases of Malta fever (Gra- ceta Medica, Caracas, July 15, 1S9S), thus demonstrating for the first time the ex- istence of this disease on the American Continent. Dr. Andrade furnished the inspiration, and those who knew his en- thusiastic and indefatigable zeal can't escape the conviction that he did a liberal 6hare of the work, though in the report he is only ranked as assistant. The custom of the country and his own in- nate modesty kept him from getting proper credit.

He was the first to find and report a case of filariasis in the state of Florida. Though his practice was chiefly in dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, his heart was in bacteriology.

A loyal friend, a genial companion, and a sparkling conversationalist, he had a keen sense of humor and enjoyed a good story.

For months he knew that a disease which held out no hope of cure was slowly but surely killing him, but he neverthe- less attended as assiduously to his duties in behalf of suffering humanity as physi- cal pain would permit. II. B.

Andrews, Edmund (1824-1904).

Edmund Andrews, physician, was one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and also of the Northwestern University Medical School. In Mercy Hospital, the institution in which he

and his two sons did so much earnest and conscientious surgical work, he sud- denly passed away on the twenty-second day of January. Edmund Andrews had been engaged in surgical work in Chicago for forty-eight years. He was born in Putney, Vermont, of sturdy New Eng- land stock, on April 22, 1824, thence removing in 1840 to Detroit, Michigan, he completed his literary studies in the University of Michigan, graduating in 1849. Three years later he completed his medical course in the University of Michi- gan and went to Chicago. In 1855 he be- came a professor at Rush Medical College, which then maintained a course of two years. Dissatisfied with this brief course, he severed his connections with Rush, and with Drs. Hosmer Johnson, N. S. Davis, W. H. Byford, Titus Delville, Ralph Is- ham and Dr. Rutter established the Lind University Medical School, which even- tually became the medical school of the Northwestern University where for forty- six years Dr. Andrews was professor of surgery. At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed surgical chief at Camp Douglas, and later, becoming sur- geon to the First Regiment of light artil- lery, he served well in Tennessee and Mis- sissippi. In 1854 he founded the Chicago Academy of Sciences. During his long career Dr. Andrews gave to the medical profession a number of valuable surgical instruments and devices, and contributed liberally to the current medical literature, chiefly on statistical, orthopedic and operative surgery.

He married in April, 1853, Eliza, daughter of N. T. Taylor of Detroit, and had five children, two of whom, E. Wyllys and Frank Taylor, worked with I in ii father.

Di tingui ill Phys. and Surga. of Chicago,

F. N. Speny, 1904.

The Chicago Clinic, vol. xvii, No. 2, 1004.

Atkinson's Phys. and Surg, of the United

States.

Andrews, George Pierce (1838-1903).

George Pierce Andrews was born in

Kailua, Hawaii, April 9, 1S3S, his father

Dr.Seth L. Andrews, of Romeo, Michigan,