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ENGELMANN

did not sell his favorite horse, so neces- sary in those primordial times.

Practice from the first was very suc- cessful, especially among the numerous French families, who became his warm- est friends. Even during the last years of his life and with failing health he would not refuse his professional ser- vices to any one even at night.

Owing to his obstetric skill he became the most popular accoucheur of those days, and was the first man who success- fully used the forceps, in spite of the opposition of the members of the profession.

In about four years he had accumu- lated sufficient funds to enable him to leave his patients in the care of his trust- ed friend Dr. A. Wislizenus, and to re- turn to Germany for the purpose of marrying Dora Horstman, of Kreuz- nach, to whom he had been engaged ten years. In June, 1840, he brought his young wife to his new home in St. Louis.

In 1856 he took another trip to Eu- rope, where he remained two years to superintend the engravings of the plates for his great work on the "Cactaceae of the Boundary."

In 1868 he repeated his European tour, accompanied by his wife and his only son George, whom they left abroad to complete his studies. In 1879 his wife, the constant companion of his jour- neyings, died of nervous exhaustion.

Engelmann was inconsolable, and in spite of attempted consolation by his friends, of whom I had the honor to be one, and occasional visits to the Rocky Mountains and Colorado, he gradually succumbed to the intensity of his sorrow. L. C. B.

Am. Jour, of Sci., X. Haven, 1884, 3 s., vol. xxviii (A. Gray).

Pop. Sci. Mon., N. York, 18S6, vol. xxix. SI. Louis Med. and Sun;. Jour., 1893, vol. Ixv (L. C. Iioislini.ro) (portrait). Science, Cambridge, 1884, vol. iii. Weekly Med. Rev., Chicago, 1884, vol. ht.

Engelmann, George Julius (1847-1903).

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master in obstetrics, Vienna, was born

in St. Louis, Missouri, July 2, 1847; only son of George Engelmann, who was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1S09 and died in St. Louis in 18S4. His mother was Dorothea Horstmann, born at Bacharaeh-on-the-Rhine in 1804, and died in St. Louis in 1879.

His early education was guided by his mother until 1856, when he was taken by his parents to Europe to study in the great centers which his father sought in the interest of botanic research. He returned to St. Louis in 185S, and enter- ed Washington University, where he graduated with the valedictory in 1867, then for medical training to the Univer- sity of Berlin, 1867-69, at Tubingen un- der von Niemeyer and von Bruns, 1869 -70. A brief interval as volunteer sur- geon under the Red Cross in the Franco- Prussian War followed; then further studies in Berlin under von Langenbeck, Virchow, Traube, Frerichs, and Martin, and graduated in the spring of 1871, re- ceiving the first medical diploma under the new German Empire.

The years 1871-72 were spent in Vi- enna, mainly in the gynecologic wards of Spaeth and Braun, and in the patho- logic laboratory of Rokitanski. He there received the degree of master in obstetrics, and engaged in his first im- portant investigation on the " Mucous Membrane of the Uterus" with Dr. Kun- drat, later professor of pathologic anat- omy. After a winter in the hospitals of Paris and London, Dr. Engelmann returned to St. Louis in the spring of 1S73 to practice in his native city, tak- ing the position of lecturer on patho- logit anatomy in the St. Louis Medical College. He entered with zest upon his work, took an active part in the med- ical life of the city, and organized the St Louis School for Midwivcs and the Maternity Hospital in 1874.

After recovery from a nearly fatal ep sis acquired in December, 1878, he gave up a laborious general practice and di voted himself entirely to disease ol women, in which he had been always most interested.