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 EARLE

EASTMAN

first form of the volume was published in the "American Journal of Insanity," then printed at the Utica Asylum, where Dr. Brigham had begun it.

(1877) The Curability of Insanity." (First form of this work in a pamphlet issued by the New England Psycho- logical Society, Boston.)

(XII) (1SS7) "The Curability of Insanity: A Series of Studies."

(XIII) (1888) "The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and his Descendants." (Compiled by Pliny Earle, of North- ampton, Massachusetts. Printed for the family.) (Worcester, Massachusetts. Press of Charles Hamilton, pp. xxiv, 480.) This may be considered Dr. Earle's magnum opus, since it occupied him, at intervals, for half a century, and involved an expenditure on his part of some thousands of dollars. It is a masterly work, of incredible labor almost, and yet deals with only one of the eight or ten families in America named Earl, Earll, or Earle. It con- tains more than 4,000 names of the cousins, near or remote, of Dr. Earle, and yet omits more than 1,000 as not coming within the scope of the book.

(1838-92) An incomplete list of Dr. Earle's contributions to reviews, annuals, dictionaries, etc., include:

(1838) "Insanity: Its Causes, Du- ration, Termination, and Moral Treat- ment." (Part of his Medical Thesis of 1837.)

(1842-45) " Observations on the Rapidity of the Pulse of the Insane."

(1843) "The Curability of Insanity." (First paper.)

(1845) "The Inability to Distinguish Colors."

(1845) "Experiments with Conium Maculatum."

(1847) "Cases of Paralysis Pe- culiar to the Insane."

(1846) "Indian Hemp and Mental Alienation." (Review of J. Moreau.)

(1844-47) "The Poetry of Insanity, Contributions to the Pathology of In- sanity, Cases and a Leaf from the Annals of Insanity."

(1851) "The Insane at Gheel." (1867) "Psychopathic Hospital of the Future."

In addition to these. Dr. Earle wrote some thirty reviews of reports of hospitals, and in 1S46 a review of "Esquirol on Mental Diseases," in a New York peri- odical; a "History of Insane Hospitals in the United States," the first paper read before the New York Academy of Medicine, and published in its records; in 1863 an article in the "American Alma- nac" on " Insanity;" in 1881 an article on the "Curability of the Insane," in the "Proceedings of the Conference of Chari- ties;" and in 1892 a long article on the same subject in Dr. D. H. Tuke's " Dictionary of Psychological Medicine," published in London two months after Dr. Earle's death. He published in 1890 in the "Journal of Social Science" his paper on "Popular Fallacies Concern- ing the Insane." G. A. B.

Memoirs of Pliny Earle, M. D. By F. B.

Sanborn.

Med. Leg. Jour., N. Y., 1SS6-7, vol. iv

(port.).

Med. Rec., N. Y., 1892, vol. xli.

Eastman, Joseph (1842-1902).

Joseph Eastman, a pioneer abdominal surgeon, was born in Fulton County, New York, January 29, 1842. He was a self-architected man, having had very little schooling. At nineteen he was shoeing oxen in a lumber settlement in the foot hills of the Adirondacks and in 1861 he shouldered a musket in re- sponse to the call of Pres. Lincoln. He was wounded at Williamsburg and taken to Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington. Here, a few days later, still weak and trembling under the weight of the knap-sack and musket, he was ordered from the ranks of con- valescents, leaving for the front.

For a ti he discharged small duties

about the hospital dispensary, washed bottles and read furtively from medical volumes which lay about. Later he was appointed hospital steward in the United States Army and while thus en-