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 DELAMATER

De ROSSET

during life he had assisted in the medical education of a larger number of young men than any physician of his day. On his retirement Dr. Delamater was honored with the title of pro- fessor emeritus, and received also the honorary LL. D. from the Western Re- serve University. He died at the ad- vanced age of eighty, March 28, 1867. His son, Dr. Jacob G. Delamater, was professor of anatomy and physiology in the Cleveland Medical College, 1S43-1S61. As a writer his communications are characterized by the same clearness of thought and expression. Fortunately we have several specimens of his style preserved in the medical journals of his day. Among these we mention "On Detecting and Diagnosing the Simpler Forms of Valvular Diseases of the Heart," ("Cleveland Medical Gazette," December, 1S59), "Reminiscences of Country Sur- gery" (Ibid., May, 1860), two letters on the subject of ovariotomy addressed to Dr. J. W. Hamilton and published in the "Transactions of the Ohio State Medical Society" for 1859, and most re- markable of all, a series of papers en- titled, simply, " Dr. Fisher's Case," but containing, in addition to a fairly com- plete medical autobiography, an ex- haustive discussion of the pathology and treatment of inversion of the womb. ("Cleveland Medical Gazette," April, 1860, etseq.)

An excellent portrait of Dr. Delamater is found in the faculty room of the medical department of the Western Reserve University, another of less excellence in the parlors of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and good engrav- ings of his quaint features are published in "Cleave's Cyclopedia" and elsewhere. H. E. H. Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of the State of Ohio, No. 1, Cuyahoga County (Philadelphia, 1875). A "Sermon delivered at the funeral of John Delamater by William Goodrich, D. D." (Cleveland, 1867), and in "The Life and Character of John Dela- mater, M. D., LL. D." An Address deliv- ered before the Alumni of the Cleveland Medical College, March 3, 1880, by J. E. In- gersoll (Cleveland, 1880).

Also an article by Dr. Dudley P. Allen, of Cleveland, in the "Magazine of Western His- tory," vol. iv.

Transactions of the American Medical Asso- ciation, 1868.

Denison, Charles (1845-1909).

Charles Denison was born in Royalton, Vermont, November 1, 1845. His parents were Dr. Joseph Adam and Eliza Skinner Denison of Royalton, both of New England stock. Charles Denison married Ella H. Strong, daughter of Gen. Henry Strong, December 26, 1878, and three children survived infancy — Clara, Elsa, and a son, Dr. Henry S. Denison, of Denver.

Charles Denison died in Denver, Colorado, on the tenth of January, 1909, of gangrene following cholecystitis. He was one of the most active pioneers in the war against tuberculosis, insepara- ble obstacles only increasing his untiring energy. He graduated from the Uni- versity of Vermont in 1859, and while in Hartford, in 1S73, tuberculosis with pulmonary hemorrhages set in and he removed to Denver and devoted his at- tention to the study of climatology with especial reference to tuberculosis. For fourteen years he was professor of diseases of the chest and climatology in the University of Denver, and afterwards emeritus professor. He was the author of a valuable work on the climate of Colo- rado, entitled " Rocky Mountain Health Resorts," and of a series of climatic maps of the United States. Dr. Denison took part in the International Congress on tuberculosis in London in 1901, and was a frequent contributor to the "Trans- actions of the Climatological Association," in which he was deeply interested from the date of its organization. D. W.

De Rosset, Moses John (1S38-1SS1).

Moses John De Rosset was the son of Dr. S. J. De Rosset of Wilmington, North Carolina, and after receiving a broad general education in this country and abroad, took up the study of medi- cine and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York