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 ANDREWS

ANDREWS

being there as a medical missionary. Ill health prevented George completing his course at Andover, Massachusetts, but on recovery he studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Edmund Andrews, profes- sor of surgery in Chicago Medical College, but took his last course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, receiving his M. D. in 1861. Set- tling in Detroit shortly after graduation he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Government Hospital, on Woodward Avenue. In 1S66 he aided in founding the "Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," and continued an editor till 1871. Dr. Andrews was a great lover of plants, keeping a green-house for the study of rare species, under native con- ditions. He was an expert microscopist for his time; in chemical studies he de- lighted. He was an expert in fine china, etchings, paintings, and oriental curios. In literature and philosophy he excelled. As a teacher of medicine he ranked with the best, clear, concise, forceful, he ex- erted a profound influence upon his stu- dents. In 1S62 he married Sarah Dyar, of Romeo, Michigan, and had three children, only one — Winnifred — surviving. In 1S90 failing health induced him to return to the Sandwich Islands, where he practised till his death from heart failure in May, 1903.

He was a founder of the Michigan State Medical Society in 1S66; of the Wayne County (Michigan) Medical So- ciety in 1S66; of the Detroit Academy of Medicine, 186S; of the Detroit Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. He was active in founding the Detroit Medical College in 1S68, and its professor of prin- ciples and practice of medicine till 1SS1. From 1SS6 till 1890 he was on the staff of several hospitals: the Childrens Free; Harper's; St. Mary's and the Woman's Hospital. In 1876 he was president of the Detroit Academy of Medicine.

Papers:

"Syphilis in its Clinical Relations." ("Detroit Lancet," vol. v.)

"Calomel in the Treatment of Diph- theria." ("Detroit Lancet, vol. viii.)

"Puerperal Pyrexia." (" Detroit Lan- cet," vol. ix.)

"Continued Fevers in Michigan." ("Transactions, Michigan State Medical Society," 1887.)

"Acute Meningitis." ("Detroit Re- view of Medicine and Pharmacy, vol. i. ")

"Occlusion of the Ileo-cecal Valve by Calculi of Cholesterine." ("Detroit, Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. ii.)

"Hepatic Disease Accompanied with Enormous Pericardial Effusion." ("De- troit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. iii.)

"Bright's Disease." ("Detroit Re- view of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. iv.)

"Acute Pneumonia." ("Detroit Re- view of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. v.)

"An Autumnal Fever in Thickly Set- tled Populated Malarial Districts." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Phar- macy," vol. v.)

"Electro-therapeutics." "Detroit Re- view of Medicine and Pharmacy," (vol. vi.)

"Therapeutic Action of Oxygen." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. vii.)

"Chronic Bronchitis." ("Detroit Re- view of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. xi.)

"Functional Diseases of the Heart." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Phar- macy," vol. x, p. 579.)

"Albuminuria." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. ix.)

"Clinical Report of Puerperal Py- rexia." ("American Lancet," vol. i.)

"The Development of Starch Grains." ("The Microscope," Detroit, 1881.")

"Calomel in the Treatment of Diph- theria." ("Detroit Lancet," 1884.")

"Puerperal Pyrexia." ("Detroit Lan- cet," 1885.)

"Syphilis in its Clinical Relations." ("Detroit Lancet," 1881.) L. C.

(Physicians and Surgeons of the United States, William B. Atkinson.