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 DRAPER

DRUMMOND

Med. News., Phila., 1882, vol. xl. Natuie, London, 1S81-2, vol. xxv. Phila. Med. Times, 1881-2, vol. xii.

Draper, William Henry (1830-1901).

William Henry Draper was born Oc- tober 14, 1830 and died in New York City April 25, 1901.

He graduated in arts from Columbia in 1851, afterwards becoming a student under Dr. Willard Parker and received bis M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1855. while in 1857 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of M. A.

He was clinical professor of diseases of the skin at the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1869-79, and although lec- tures had been given on this subject be- fore in this college he was the first to hold the professorship and was one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association, but after relinquishing his dermatological professorship, he gave his entire attention to clinical medicine, and is remembered rather as a clinician than as a dermatologist, being consulting physician to St. Luke's, Roosevelt and Presbyterian Hospitals, and visiting phy- sician to the New York Hospital.

He was a member of the New York County Medical Society and president of the Academy of Medicine.

He was a careful, though not volumin- ous writer, and was the author of a small treatise on dermatology.

J. M. W.

Drinkard, William Beverly (1842-1877). A native of Williamsburg, Virginia, his mother was Mary Frances Martin, daughter of William Beverly Martin. Dr. Drinkard lived in Virginia until 1857, when he came to Washington and attend- ed the school of Mr. Charles B. Young, where he showed fine intellectual quali- ties. He attended Georgetown Medical College a short time, and in May, I860, Bailed for Europe and became a pupil at the Lycee Imperiale, Orleans, France, whence he went to Paris, and in Novem- ber, 1861, began to study medicine with ardor and devotion. As assistant in the

ophthalmological clinic of Desmarres he had abundant opportunities to study eye disease. Dr. Drinkard also served as interne in the hospitals and came in con- tact with the eminent teachers of the time — Velpeau, Neiaton, Malgaigne, and others.

In 1865 he went to London where he received the degree of M. R. C. S. and in the autumn of 1S65 returned to Wash- ington and took his M. D. at Columbia College, District of Columbia. Immedi- ately after graduation he began to prac- tise, being in a short time made demon- strator of anatomy in the National Medical College, and lecturer on minor surgery. In 1872 he was elected professor of anatomy, which chair he held at the time of his death. He was one of the founders of the Children's Hospital, his special depart- ment being diseases of the eye and ear.

As an ophthalmologist, the great care which he bestowed on his cases, th& thoroughness of his clinical examina- tions, the precision and nicety of his. manipulations established the strongest confidence in his ability.

No death ever occurred among the younger members of the medical profes- sion in Washington which was so generally lamented as that of Dr. Drinkard on February 13, 1877. D. S. L.

Transactions American Medical Association,

1878, lxxix.

Minutes of Medical Society D. C, February*

4, 1877.

National Medical Review, January, 1878,

vol. i.

Busey. Reminiscences.

Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907). Known equally as physician and poet, he was the son of George Drummond, an officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Elizabeth Morris Soden, he was born at Currawn House, Leitrim County, Ireland, April 13, 1854. Educated at Mohill, Leitrim County, and at Montreal High School, he studied medicine at Bishop's College, graduating in 1884, and was professor of medical jurispru- dence, 1893. In 1894 he married May Isabel, only daughter of Dr. O. C. Harvey