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 DRUMMOND

DUDLEY

of Jamaica, and was survived by her and two children.

Dr. Drummond retired from active practice in 1905, to occupy himself with large mining interests which he had acquired in northern Ontario. An out- break of small-pox in the camp required his presence in Cobalt, and it was while attending to his duty that he was stricken with paralysis. He died in Cobalt amid the wild scenes he loved so well, on April 6, 1907. The end came as a complete surprise to his friends. His splendid physique and fine frame, his cheerful aspect and vigorous habit of life gave promise of an old age which only the slow process of decay should destroy. His untimely death made a profound im- pression throughout Canada and also in the United States where he was well known. The " Montreal Medical Journal " sum- med up the general feeling in the words: " By his vision we see our compatriots in a new and kindly light. So long as men love the open life, the honorable chase of game, the smell of the earth, and the sounds of the forest, his spirit will con- tinue to haunt the Laurentian hills, the blue lakes which he among them, and the swiftly flowing waters of which he sung." Better known as poet than physician, he yet practised medicine in Montreal for twenty-three years, and occupied a pro- fessional chair for fifteen. He was probably the most widely known of Canadian writers on account of the vogue which his verse, written in the patois of the habitant, obtained. His first volume, entitled "The Habitant," was issued in 1S98, and it quickly attained a large sale. It was followed by "Madeleine Ver- cheres," "Johnny Couture," and "The Voyageur." His best known pieces are "The Wreck of the Julie Plante," "The Papineau Gun," and "Le Vieux-Temps." Dr. Drummond had the quality of great poets in that he saw beauty in common things, pathos in lowly life, humor in dull uniformity. The vein which he dis- covered was small, but it was pure and new. He discovered the French-Cana- dian and embodied him in literature, as

well as it could be done. What Burns did for Scotland he did for Quebec.

A. M. Montreal Med. Journal, May, 1907.

Du Bois, Abram (1810-1891).

Abram Du Bois, one of the founders of the American Ophthalmological Society, was a pupil of Dr. Kearney Rodgers of New York, and became his associate at the New York Eye Infirmary in 1843, with which institution he was actively con- nected for forty-eight years. He was not an author, but was fully devoted to his profession and pursued it with noble aims and in a worthy spirit, and made a generous gift to the library of the New York Academy of Medicine.

He died in New York City, August 29, 1S91, aged eighty-one years. H. F.

Trans. Am. Oph. Soc, vol. vi, 1891.

Purple S. S. Memoir, Tr. N. Yoik. Med. Ass.,

vol. ix, 1892.

Dudley, Augustus Palmer (1S53-1905).

A. P. Dudley was born at Phippsburg, Maine, July 4, 1853. His father, Palmer Dudley, and his mother, Frances Jane (Wyman) Dudley, were natives of that state. While a young lad his parents moved to Bath, where he received his education in the city schools. Soon after leaving school at Bath his parents moved to Portland and young Dudley became an apprentice to the Portland Company, manufacturers of all kinds of iron and steel machinery. He served his apprenticeship faithfully, and when he left there he could (to use his own words) " build and run a locomotive, make a needle or a pen-knife." He had other aspirations and ambitions to the extent of reading and reciting in anatomy at irregular intervals in the office of his life-long friend, Dr. B. B. Foster, and worked with the writer as a regular student. He was always ready to do anything in the fine of pro- fessional work. At one time he took the position of night nurse at the Maine General Hospital, and improved all op- portunities of seeing clinical work at the