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the enlarged cervical tumors were extirpated, his life was forfeit. George Michael Edebohls died of Hodgkin's disease, in New York City, on the eighth day of August, 1S0S, after four months' illness. He was buried at Blauvelts, New York, where as a youth he had lived for a time on a farm owned by his parents, the interment being in a cemetery presented to the village by his father.

In person Edebohls was tall and erect, of commanding presence and graceful carriage. In manner he was grave, dignified, and scrupulously polite. Tem- perame ntally he was taciturn, retiring, and excessively modest. Only after long and close acquaintance did he un- bend to intimacy and comradeship and reveal as noble qualities of heart as of head. To reach this plane with him the writer's opportunity was ex- ceptional, because his aid was requested in much of the abdominal surgery done by Edebohls in the year following his retirement from general practice.

H. J. B.

Am. Jour. Obstet., May, 1909.

N. Y. Med. Jour., Aug., 1908.

Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., Aug., 1908.

Buffalo Med. Jour., Sept., 1908.

Post-graduate, N. Y., Sept., 1908, where

there is a portrait.

Edwards, Emma Ward (1845-1896).

Emma Ward, a pioneer physician, was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 5, 1845, of New England ancestry and educated at local private schools. At seventeen, her health failing, she was placed under medical care for sev- eral years. During this time she de- termined to become a physician and at twenty-one, health recovered, she was studying under local doctors. There was no regular school of medicine in New York for women until 1S6S, when "The Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary" was opened. Emma Ward immediately matric- ulated and entering the first class grad- uated in 1870 with the honor of vale- dictorian. After her graduation she

served as clinical assistant, dispensary physician and instructor in "practice" in the college, and was associated with Dr. Loring of New York for a year. She then returned to Newark and took up general practice with unusual success.

In April, 1872, she married Dr. Arthur M. Edwards and removed to Berkley, California. Her husband be- coming incapacitated by illness, she re- turned with him and the children to Newark in 1878 and built up a phe- nomenally large practice.

She was a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society and Essex County Medical Society.

To her fine character, coupled with the success she achieved, is partly due the tremendous impulse which the education of women in the medical profession re- ceived in the vicinity of New York.

She died of dysentery, March 28, 1896 at Clearwater, Florida.

A. B. W.

The "Woman's Journal, Boston, vol. xxvii. New York Medical Record vol. xlix. Personal Information.

Edwards, Francis Smith (1826-1SG5).

Francis Smith Edwards was born in Norwich, England, June 2, 1826, the son of Charles Edwards, a distin- guished member of the New York bar, and the author of several legal and other works.

He had his early education at a school in Poughkeepsie, New York, and was subsequently a pupil of the Messrs. Peugnett, in that city. After leaving school he joined Col. Doniphan at St. Louis, and accompanied him in his march over the prairies during the Mexican War. A book entitled "A Campaign in New Mexico with Col. Doniphan," etc., of which Edwards was the author, contains an account of his adventures in that expedition.

He began to study medicine with Dr. John C. Beales, of New York, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1854. Up to the time of his last sickness he generally