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miles south of Salem, Ohio, in 1840, where he attended the Salem Quaker Academy, working on the farm during vacations. He studied anatomy, phys- iology, chemistry, and materia medica under Dr. John Harris, of Salem, and also learned practical dentistry. In the summer of 1848 he worked under Drs. Robertson and Kuhn, at Hanover, Ohio.

In July, 1855, he removed to Findlay. He attended lectures at the Medical Col- lege of Ohio and graduated in the spring of 1873.

During the first twenty years of his professional career, Dr. Entrikin accumu- lated an anatomical cabinet, the work of his own hands, to which was added by purchase many of Azieus' best models in papier mache', and a large number of pathological specimens obtained in operations and postmortems. Dr. En- trikin had charge of the Green Springs Medical and Surgical Sanatorium, 1881- 82. He returned to Findlay in 1883; was elected professor of diseases of women, Fort Wayne Medical College in 1882, and delivered lectures on gynecology there during the winters of 1882, '83, and 'S4. In the summer of 1SS5 he was elected to the chair of gynecology, Toledo Medical College, and lectured there in 1885-86.

Dr. Entrikin was a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the Miss- issippi Valley Medical Association. He wrote the "Woman's Monitor," and contributed many articles on medical subjects, to be found in the "Lancet and Observer," "Toledo Medical Jour- nal," and the "St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal," also an article on "Tuberculosis" in the "St. Louis Med- ical and Surgical Journal," February, 1885, which attracted considerable at- tention.

The first tracheotomy in Hancock County, Ohio, was performed by Dr. Entrikin, in 1862, for the removal of a bean from the trachea of a little girl. On July 1, 1862, he united the severed tendon Achillis by menus of a silver wire

suture, performing the operation upon George Franks, of Cass township, Ohio, a perfect cure resulting. In November , 1875, he operated for ankylosis, correct- ing a bad deformity of the knee in a lad of fourteen, and exhibited the case before the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society in May, 1876. He also was early to propose overextension of oblique frac- tures of long bones, to allow for the creeping incidental to use and muscular action, calling attention to it in an ar- ticle read before the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society in May, 1S76, and pub- lished in the "Cincinnati Lancet and Observer" in May of the same year. Dr. Entrikin married, in October, 1852, Sarah Ann, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Leslie) Lyon, of Deerfield, Ohio, and had three children: Leonidas, Emmor L., and Franklin B., who grad- uated at the Medical College of Ohio and practised with his father who died at Findlay May 13, 1897.

Physicians and Surgeons of America, Watson (port.).

Eskridge, Jeremiah Thomas (1848-1902).

Jeremiah Thomas Eskridge, alienist, the son of Jeremiah and Mary Marvel Eskridge, was born June 1, 1848, in Sussex County, Delaware. His family was founded in America by Judge George Eskridge, a native of Scotland, who came to America in 1660 as judge of the King's Bench in Virginia.

Dr. Eskridge, when a boy, worked on a farm, attending school until fifteen, when he began teaching in the schools of his native county. With the money gained he entered at eighteen the Clas- sical Institute at Laurel, Delaware. Ho entered the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, in 1872, and took his M D. there in 1875.

Dr. Eskridge was president of the Philadelphia Northern Medical Society; a director of the Philadelphia County Medical Society; a member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; the Ameri- can Neurological Association; and the New York Medico-Legal Society.