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ical and Surgical Journal," the official organ of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty in 1S43. E. F. C.

See Cordell's History of the University of Maryland for portrait.

Childs, Henry Halsey (1783-1868).

Henry Halsey Childs, founder and pres- ident of the Berkshire Medical College and lieutenant-governor of Massachu- setts, was the son of Dr. Timothy Childs, a surgeon from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the Revolutionary War and holder of an honorary M. D. from Harvard College. Henry was born in Pittsfield, June 7, 1783 and studied medicine with his father and practised with him until the latter died. The father had introduced the practice of inoculation in Pittsfield and now father and son substituted for it vaccination against strenuous protest. For some time previous to 1822 Henry Childs had pressed upon the Berkshire Medical Soci- ety the importance of establishing a med- ical college in the county, and the ad- vantages of Pittsfield for its site, and in that year he joined with Daniel Collins and Asa Burbank in a petition to the Leg- islature for an act of incorporation. This was granted, and the Berkshire Medical Institution began its existence September 18, 1823, Dr. Childs taking the chair of theory and practice of medicine. He was the soul of the school and was in- strumental in obtaining endowments, erecting buildings and collecting a li- brary. In 1837, when the school was de- tached from Williams College, he was made president, and continued to direct its affairs until 1803 when he resigned because of advancing years. Dr. Childs served also on the faculties of the med- ical colleges at Woodstock, Vermont, and at Willoughby and Columbus, Ohio, where he gave courses of lectures each year. He was lieutenant-governor in 1843. In private life Dr. Childs was a fine man and much loved everywhere. He died in Boston at the home of his son- in-law, Elias Merwin, March 22, 1868. W. L. B. Com. Mass. Med. Society, vol. ii.

Chipley, William Stout (1810-1880).

William Stout Chipley, alienist, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, October 18, 1810, the only son of the Rev. Stephen Chipley, a pioneer of Lexington, and he graduated from the Transylvania Univer- sity in 1832, from 1854 to 1857 occupy- ing the chair of theory and practice of medicine in the Transylvania University.

When he took charge of the Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum in 1855, he found that institution overcrowded with incurables, epileptics, and feeble minded, huddled together without any attempt at classification and separation. These defects were not only remedied by Dr. Chipley, but largely through his efforts other institutions in Kentucky were erected.

He married Elizabeth Fanning in 1837 while he lived in Columbus, Georgia. By this marriage he had four sons and one daughter. He died February 11, 1880. A. S.

Am. Jour. Insanity, Utica, N. Y., 1S81-2, vol. xxxviii (O. Everts). Filson Club Publication, No. 20.

Chisolm, Julian J. (1830-1903).

Julian J. Chisolm of Charleston, South Carolina, studied medicine at the med- ical college of the state of South Carolina and after graduating there went to Eu- rope to perfect himself in his chosen profession. Returning to Charleston he soon displayed great skill and ability as a surgeon and was appointed professor of surgery at the Medical College. Chisolm was one of the most famous surgeons of the Confederate Army. His " Manual of Military Surgery" became the text-book of the confederate surgeons and is a work of high merit. After the war he resumed practice in Charleston, but in 1869 re- moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he was at once appointed professor of oper- ative surgery and diseases of eye and ear on the medical side of the University of Maryland. In 1873 he abandoned sur- gery and devoted himself exclusively to his specialty, diseases of the eye and ear. In 1877 he founded the Presbyterian Eye,