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a member of Detroit Medical Society; the Wayne Medical Society, and the Detroit Gynecological Society. Unlike most phy- sicians, he kept, in a scholarly manner, careful clinical records of cases and from time to time laid these studies before his fellow doctors. He was one of the first to recognize milk as a potent factor in transmitting typhoid; while his fellow practitioners were tardy in accepting the correctness of these observations, he con- tinued their teaching and practice till accepted. Dr. Christian was about five feet seven inches tall, slender build, short beard, keen blue eyes, alert, kindly expression, nervous movement, indefati- gable worker, absolutely honest and with- out guile in all his relations.

In 1S54 he married Mary H. Foster, who with two sons survived him; one, E. A. Christian, became a doctor. The father himself died in Wyandotte November 17, 1S96, of arteriosclerosis with special involvement of the cerebro- spinal vessels.

His papers included :

"The Epidemic Relationships of Zy- motic Diseases as Indicating a Unity of Cause." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, " vol. i.)

"The Pathological Consequences Inci- dent to Induced Abortion." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. ii.)

"On the Zymotic Diseases." ("De- troit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol.v.)

"Notes on Ten Cases of Prolapsed Funis." ("Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy," vol. v.)

"An Analysis of One Hundred and Eighty-nine Cases of Instrumental Ob- stetrical Cases." ("American Lancet," vol. x.)

"Postpartum Hemorrhage." ("Ameri- can Lancet," vol. x.)

"Arrested Development of the Ovum by Reason of Mal-attachments and from Resulting Pathological Alterations of the Placenta." ("American Lancet," vol. xiv.)

"Fevers in Detroit and Vicinity in

1855." ("Peninsular Medical Journal," vol. iii.)

"Can Iodine Revive Mercury Latent in the System?" ("Peninsular Medical Journal," vol. iv.)

"Gestation and Parturition Compli- cated with Uterine Disease." ("Peninsu- lar Medical Journal," vol. v.)

"Retained Blighted Fetuses." ("Pen- insular Journal of Medicine," vol. xi.)

"Cases of Fetal Abnormalities and Monstrosities in my Practice with Obser- vations on Embryonic Nutrition." ("Transactions of Michigan State Med- ical Society," 1S76.)

"Criminal Abortion." (Peninsular and Independent Medical Journal," Detroit, vol. ii.)

"The Mortality of Children in Head- last Birth." ("Medical Age," Detroit, 1S85.)

"Arrested Development of the Ovum by Reason of Mal-attachments and from Resulting Pathological Alteration of the Placenta." ("American Lancet," De- troit, 1890.)

"Craniotomy." ("Transactions Michi- gan State Medical Society," Detroit, 1S94.)

" Medical Art in its Relation to Chris- tian Civilization and Popular Intelli- gence." ("Transactions of Michigan State Medical Society," 1SS6.)

"Shortness of the Umbilical Cord a Cause of Retarded Labors and of Acci- dents." ("Transactions of Michigan State Medical Society," 1S79.)

"Two Cases of Mal-presentation with Suggestions as to Their Cause." ("Trans- actions of Michigan State Medical Soci- ety," 1SS2.)

" Vaso-renal Changes as a Factor in the Causation of Still-births." (Reprinted from "Annals of Gynecology," Boston, Massachusetts, 1888.) L. C.

The Phys. and Surg, of the U. S. W. B.

Atkinson, 1S7S.

Trans. Mich. State lied. Soe., 1879.

Claiborne, John Herbert (1S2S-1905).

The son of John G. and Mary E. (Weldon) Claiborne, he was born March