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 ESTABROOK

EUSTIS

A tolerably full list is in the Cat. of the Surg.-gen's. Lib., Wash., D. C.

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Estabrook, Joseph Hubbard (1797-1S85).

He was born in Athol, Massachusetts, October 15, 1797 and, although it was early expected he would not live long, he nourished like a bay tree till eighty- eight years old. He was the son of the Rev. Joseph and Caroline Jacobs Estabrook, and was nearly the oldest graduate at the time of his death of Williams College, from which he grad- uated in 1818.

He studied medicine with his cousin Dr. Ezekiel Gushing, of Boston, who had lately returned from France where he had been for years studying medi- cine under the celebrated Baron Larrey, and from such a man Estabrook must have obtained many useful medical hints and lessons as well as the latest surgical ideas of that Nestor in the French Army staff of the Napoleonic era. Sim- ultaneously, Estabrook attended lec- tures at the Harvard Medical School, where he obtained a diploma in 1821. In consequence of his delicate health, he was advised to go to Maine, where he chose Camden for his habitation, and practised for more than fifty years. In 1823 he married Caroline Jacobs, of that town, and reared a large family, six of whom practised as physicians.

He settled in Camden when there were few if any other medical men around, extremely few that had any rea- sonable medical education, so that his field of labor was extensive, including all of the adjacent towns as well as the islands in the Penobscot Bay. He was often called to visit patients on the out- lying islands by day and night, nol sel- dom making the trip at night in an open row-boat, and sometimes amidst severe storms.

He was a mem her of the Maine Medical Society, later on a member and pre i- dent of the Maim- Medical Association, and did excellent work in each Rare-

ly appearing in print, he was an excel- lent speaker.

He d ed gently at the last, July 5, 1S85, leaving behind him a memory of a skillful and trusted physician. His portrait adorned the walls of many a house for twenty miles around.

J. A. S.

Trans. Maine Med. Assoc, 1886. History of Camden, Maine.

Etheridge, James Henry (1844-1899).

James Henry Etheridge, medieo-juris- prudentist and obstetrician, was born at Johnsville, New York, on March 20, 1S44, the son of Dr. Francis B. Ether- idge. He studied for one year at the medical department of the University of Michigan; two years at Rush, and began to practise in Chicago in 1871.

He was on the staff of several Chicago hospitals for many years, for a long time holding the chair of therapeutics, materia medica, and medical juris- prudence in Rush Medical College. This chair he vacated in 1889 to take that of gynecology, succeeding Dr. William H. Byford. In 1S92 he was elected tc- the chair of obstetrics also, and was for some time professor of gynecology in the Chicago Polyclinic. He was well known as a brilliant operator. Though a constant contributor to medical jour- nals, he never wrote a book.

He married, June 20, 1870, Harriet Elizabeth Powers, of Evanston, and had two daughters.

He died in Chicago, February 9, 1899. T. II. S.

Illinois Med. .four., vol. xlix

Bull of Alumni, Rush Coll., vol. v, 1909.

Eustis, William (1753-1825).

William Eustis, army surgeon, took his medical degree at Harvard in 1772, with highest honors. He was a pupil and favorite of Dr. Joseph Warren, who thought highly of bis ability and

had him appointed surgeon in thi

uliu .Us artillery. In the battle of Bunker Hill he was near his heroic