Page:A cyclopedia of American medical biography vol. 1.djvu/306

 COLE 1

pertains to diseases of the ear. It is entitled "Postmortem Appearances in a Case of Deafness" ("American Medical Intelligencer," July, 1841, to July, 1842, p. 226, vol. i). He died in Baltimore in 1870. H. F.

Early Hist, of Ophthalmology, Friedenwald. Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1897.

Cole, Richard Beverley (1829-1901).

Among the pioneers of medical educa- tion in California Beverley Cole is well worthy of remembrance. He was born in 1829 in Manchester, Virginia, his parents removing to Philadelphia soon afterwards. After graduating at Jefferson Medical College before reaching his twentieth year, he married, in 1848, Miss Eugenie Bona ff on of Philadelphia, and started practice in that city. A year or two later the new gold fields of California began to attract the world's attention, and among the eager westward throng was young Beverley Cole. He reached San Francisco by way of Cape Horn in 1851, opened an office there, and quickly acquired a prominent place in both medical and civic circles. The Vigilance Committee made him surgeon-general of their forces in 1852, and subsequently he was appointed surgeon general of the state of California.

In 1S58 he became professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Univer- sity of the Pacific, the beginning of an unbroken career of successful tutorial work. In 1866 he accepted the same chair in the faculty of Toland Medical College, retaining it after that institu- tion became the medical department of the University of California, in 1873 and until his death, in 1904.

Throughout this long sequence of years as a teacher of obstetrics, Dr. Cole main- tained a position in the front rank.

His practice was for many years limit- ed to gynecology, always keeping pace with the rapid development of this science.

Dr. Cole was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and a fel- low both of the Obstetrical Society of

1 GOLDEN

London and the British Gynecological Society, also president of the American Medical Association, 1895, and editor of the "Western Lancet," 1873-6.

In matters relating to public health he took an active interest, serving repeat- edly on the city Board of Supervisors and on the municipal and state Boards of Health. It was mainly through his in- itiative and effort that a new city and county hospital was built to replace the unhygienic structure at North Beach.

He succumbed to arteriosclerosis on January 17, 1901, two daughters sur- viving him. His three other children died in infancy. W. H. M.

Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776).

This doctor, "a truly great philosopher and a very great and ingenious botanist," who came to be lieutenant governor of New York, was the son of the Rev. Alex- ander Colden, minister in Dunse, and was born on the seventeenth of February, 1688, educated at and taking his M. D. from Edinburgh University.

Attracted by the fame of William Penn's colony, he came over to America and practised in Pennsylvania for seven years, then returned to England. While Colden was in London Dr. Edmund Hally was so pleased with a paper of his on "Animal Secretions" that he read it be- fore the Royal Society and introduced the writer to many learned men who be- came Colden's intimate friends.

From London he made a short visit to Scotland, long enough, however, to get him a wife (Miss Christie), then he return- ed to Pennsylvania but eventually settled in New York, and became a public char- acter, holding in succession the offices of surveyor-general, master in chancery, and lieutenant governor, duties carried out in strong royalist spirit even to the extent of trying to found a party of landowners similar to the House of Lords. Yet this politician doctor never lost his hold on science and in 1751 appeared his most readable but least scientific work "His- tory of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, 1727," followed ten years later by his