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Scotch b'neage, and inherited the intel- lectual characteristics of that race. He graduated at the University of Vir- ginia, and took his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. He then came to North Carolina and settled in the town of Edenton, where bis long and useful life was spent. Dur- ing the period of 1861-65 he gave his professional services, and largely of his wealth, to the Confederacy. He was at one time brigade surgeon to Gen. Roger A. Pryor; and the first honorary member of the State Medical Society; a member of the State Senate in early life, and the choice of his district for a seat in the United States Congress at the breaking out of the war between the States.

He died November 27, 1887, as a result of repeated strokes of paralysis.

He was survived by one daughter and a son, Dr. Richard Dillard. L. T. R.

Dimock, Susan (1847-1875).

Dr. Susan Dimock, born in Washington, North Carolina, April 24, 1S47, was one of the first among the women of this country to study medicine. Her father, Henry Dimock, was a native of Liming- ton, Maine; he moved to Washington, North Carolina, and married Mary Owens of that place. Susan, their only child, was precocious and decided at the age of thirteen to study medicine. In 1S64 her father died and with her mother she went to Massachusetts. Through the aid of Miss Bessie Green of that state she was enabled to study medicine. In 1866-7 she was a student at the New England Hospital for Women and Chil- dren, and in 1868, being denied sion to the classes for male students in this country, she went to Zurich and graduated at the University in 1871, going afterward '<> Vienna and under Dr. Funk, who was her talent that he wrote: "Should it be required of me to furnish a | young Aesculapius about to put forth, I should only say, 'make yon be like Miss Dimock.' The question

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whether a woman can be fit for the study and practise of medicine has been definitely answered by the appearance of Dr. Susan Dimock."

After a few weeks study in Paris, she returned to America and took charge of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston, managing this institution with signal ability. She also visited her old home, Washington, North Carolina, and performed several success- ful operations,

In 1S75 this promising career was brought to a sad end by the wreck of the Schiller off the English coast, she being one of the many passengers drowned at that time.

The regret at her untimely end was so great that a free bed in the New Eng- land Hospital was endowed in her memory by contributions from friends in this country and abroad.

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Dix, John Homer (1810-1S84).

John H. Dix was born in Boston in 1810, graduated in arts at Harvard in 1S33 and in medicine at Jefferson Med- ical College in 1836, afterwards, when in practice, devoting himself specially to ophthalmic surgery in which he ac- quired great skill, and was the first to follow Dieffenbach in the operation for strabismus. He was one of the founders of the American Ophtlialmological So- ciety. In 1841 he published " A Treatise on Strabismus, etc.," and in 1849 "A Treatise on the Nature and Treatment of Morbid Sensibility of the lletina, or Weakness of Sight," the Boylston prize essay for 1848.

lie died in Boston in 1884. IT. F.

Ilubbell's "Development of Ophthalmol- ogy."

Dolley, Sarah Adamson (1829-1909). Born March 11, 1829, of Quaker and her education was in schools conducted by the Society of Friends.

At the age of eighteen, having come across a copy of Wistar's anatomy, she