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1789. There is no record of any public positions held, but he enjoyed high re- putation for professional skill, and was greatly beloved as a citizen.

Capelle married Mary Isabelle Pearce, of Baltimore, Maryland, and had six children, three of whom died in infancy. .

He died at his home in Wilmington, November 5, 1796, and was buried in the Old Swedes graveyard. A simple stone fast crumbling to dust marks the spot, upon which the inscription "Dr. J. P. E. Capelle" and "The Beloved Physician" is still legible. A. R.

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Carleton, Charles M. (1838-1886).

Charles M. Carleton was born at Water- ford, Maine, April 28, 183S. A delicate child, his education was also attended by difficulties of poverty, but in 1S58 he was aided by a relative and enabled to attend the academy at Exeter, New Hampshire. His sight failing, he was again obliged to relinquish his studies. At the office of his brother-in-law, Dr. William Warren Greene, he be- came interested in medicine, and as his sight improved, took up this study. In the same year he entered Harvard and graduated in 1861. He then moved to Norwich and entered upon the practice of medicine, but soon entered the army and was made brigade surgeon of hospitals and defenses at Baltimore. His health, however, failed and he was obliged to resign his posi- tion, and in search of health and rest he sailed for Europe. Here he devoted a little time to study at Montpelier. On his return he again practised in Norwich as a general and especially as an ophthal- mic surgeon. He held many positions of trust and honor. His death occurred December 30, 1886. H. F.

L. S. Paddock: Proceedings of the Connecti- cut Med. Soc, 1887.

Carey, Matthew (1760-1839).

Matthew Carey, the son of a Dublin baker and born on January 28, 1760, has a claim to notice as founder of a

medical journal. He made the ac- quaintance of Franklin in 1779; establish- ed the "Volunteer's Journal" in 18S3 and after prosecution and imprison- ment as its editor he emigrated to Phila- delphia, and with the financial aid of Lafayette, established the "Pennsyl- vania Herald," later becoming connected with the "Columbia Magazine" and the "American Museum." He also wrote "Essays on Political Economy," 1822; "Letters on the Colonization Society," "Female Wages and Female Oppression," 1835. In 1S20, when a publisher in Philadelphia, he conceived the idea of bringing out a really good medical periodical, Dr. Nathaniel Chapman to have the editorship. So the "Phila- delphia Journal of the Medical and Phys- ical Sciences" was launched, and after four years Chapman took William P. Dewees and John L. Godman as associate editors and after ninety-two years the journal is still flourishing, though in 1824 it was re-named the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences." Carey himself wrote "A Brief Account of the Malignant Fever which prevailed in Philadelphia in the year 1793," (Philadelphia, 1793). He died in that city September 16, 1839. A Narrative of Med. in Amer. J. G. Mum- ford.

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Carnochan, John Murray (1817-1887).

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, July 4, 1817, educated in Edinburgh, and graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1S36, afterwards spending several years in study in Paris, and returning to New York in 1847. Here he soon won a good rep- utation as a surgeon. For about twenty- five years he held the position of surgeon- in-chief of the State Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island, then the largest hos- pital in this country. He made several original operations. On the twenty- second of March, 1851, he ligated the femoral artery just below the origin of the arteria profunda, for the cure of elephan- tiasis Arabum of the right inferior extrem-