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death. As will be remembered the ap- pointment of Morgan and Shippen was soon followed by that of Rush and Kuhn to the respective chairs of chemistry and materia medica and botany. Bond was, however, at this time a man of fifty-four, whereas his associate professors were all men under or a little over thirty.

It is difficult to secure much of an estimate of Dr. Bond's general appear- ance. Concerning him, Thacher (" Amer- ican Medical Biography," p. 117) says, " Dr. Bond was of delicate constitution and disposed to pulmonary consumption for which he went a voyage when a young man to the Island of Barbadoes. By unremitted care to his health, the strictest attention to diet, and to guard against change of temperature and also by frequently losing blood when he found his lungs affected, he lived to an age which the greater part of mankind never reached."

But few articles from his pen can be discovered. He made quite a number of communications to the Philosophical Society and frequently read letters from physicians both in England and some of the English Colonies. In 1779 he read a paper before the Society on the "Means of Pursuing Health and the Means of Preventing Diseases." Two years before his death he delivered the annual oration at the State House before the Philosophical Society, the title of which was "Rank and Dignity of Men in the Scale of Being." Tins was pub- lished subsequently in the form of a small book of thirty-four pages. The address is distinctly scholarly, but with the exception of a few references to tin- use of new instruments for the mea up ment of atmospheric pressure, temper- ature, etc., which lie always considered of great importance, there is little refer- ence to things medical.

In the "Medical Observations and Inquiries," vol. i, page 68, is found a short clinical article by Bond, entitled

\ Worm and a Horrid One found in the Liver." This article details the symptoms of a case in his practice in

Philadelphia which he supposed to be due to the presence of an intestinal worm found in the liver, with a good description of the autopsy and an en- graving of the postmortem findings. A second article in vol. ii. of the Observa- tions was on the "Use of Peruvian Bark in Scrofulous Cases." The most notable contribution that he made to literature is, however, his "Introductory Clinical Lectures."

The cause of Dr. Bond's death is un- known. While he was considered rather a delicate man, he was, however, able to continue in his medical work until several weeks of his death. It seems probable, therefore, that he died of some acute disease, or one of the conditions com- mon to the aged, on Friday, March 26, 1784. He was seventy-two years of age. He was buried on Sunday in the burial ground at Fifth and Arch Streets where his grave is marked by a low flat marble tablet. His name, age and date of death are still easily read, but the inscription under the name has become illegible. F. R. P.

A sketch of the life of Thomas Bond, Clini- cian and Surgeon, University of Pennsyl- vania Medical Bulletin, January, 1906. Morton's History of the Pennsylvania Hos- pital and the result of an extensive search of records at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Co-partnership Ledger of Drs. Thomas and Phineas Bond. Six vols, in the library of the CoU. of Phys. in Phila. Norris. Early Hist, of Mel. in Phila. Thacher, Am. Med. Biog.

Bonine, Evan J. (1821- 1892).

Evan J. Bonine, surgeon, of Quaker parents was born at Richmond, Indiana September 10, 1821; the third son of a family of twelve children. Until seven- teen he worked on his father's large farm during the summer and attended school during the winter, then, owing to his father's financial losses, he de pended on himself. He began medical study with Dr. .1. I'ritehett of Center- ville, Indiana, and received his M. 1). from Ohio Medical College in 1843. Settling in Niles, Michigan, he soon be-