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daughter of the Rev. H. D. Duncan, of South Carolina, and died in January, 1S77.

A tolerably full list of his writings, which numbered some six hundred may be found in the Surgeon-general's Cata- logue, Washington, District of Colum- bia. Among them, besides those cited is:

"Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra by Rapid and Free Dilatation," 1853.

"A Synopsis and Analysis of One Hundred Cases of Lithotomy, Lithotrity, etc., 1871.

"Lithotomy, Removal of a Calculous Mass, etc. Reports of Operations," 1873. D. W.

Louisville M. News, 1S77, vol. iv.

Med. Rec, N. Y., 1877, vol. xii.

Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1877, vol.

xxxvii.

St. Louis Med. Reporter, 1869, vol. iv.

Tr. Am. M. Ass., Phila., 1878, vol. xxix.

Everts, Orpheus (1826-1903).

The ancestors of Orpheus Everts came from Vermont and settled in Ohio in 1795. They included one Mercy, daughter of Josiah Standish, son of Miles Standish. Orpheus, son of Dr. Sylvanus and Elizabeth Heywood Ev- erts, was born in Salem Settlement, Indiana on December IS, 1826 and after early education at local schools studied medicine under his father and Dr. Daniel Meeker. Graduating from the Medical College of Indiana in 1S46, he later received honorary de- grees from the University of Michigan and Rush Medical College.

He began to practice in 1S46 at St. Charles, Illinois, but after ten years (1846-1856) retired to take up the editorship of a newspaper in La Porte. Indiana, but after three years studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1S60. The beginning of the Civil War found him at the front as surgeon and major of the twentieth regiment In- diana Volunteers. After the war he devoted his attention to psychiatry and diseases of the nervous system, and in 1868 was appointed superintendent

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of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, a position held for eleven years; and for thirteen he was professor of nervous and mental diseases in the Medical College of Indiana, then, until his death, medical superintendent of the Cincin- nati Sanitorium.

For thirty-four years he was an ac- tive and honored member of the Ameri- can Medico-psychological Association and its predecessor, the American Associa- tion of Superintendents of Hospitals for the Insane.

He married March 14, 1847, Mary Richards, daughter of Dr. George W. Richards, of St. Charles, Illinois and had five children: Charles Carroll, Juliet, Orpheus, William Porter, and Carolyn. Charles Carroll and William Porter graduated in medicine, but the latter died soon after finishing his course.

Dr. Everts was a frequent contribu- tor to the press. Among his more im- portant contributions to non-medical literature were: "Giles and Company, or Views and Interviews Concerning Civilization," a novel illustrating some phases of heredity; "The Cliffords," a philosophical allegory introducing im- personations of religion and science; "Facts and Fancies," in blank verse (a modern American epic) ; and he was author of numerous medical papers published in the "American Journal of Insanity," the "Cincinnati Lancet- Clinic," and "Journal of the American Medical Association." One of the last acts of his professional life was to prepare a paper for the section on " Nervous and Mental Diseases" for the American Medical Association at its meeting in New Orleans, in May, 1903, which paper appeared in the "Journal of the American Medical Association," April 16, 1904. A tolerably full list is in the Surgeon-general's Catalogue, Washington, District of Columbia.

He died at his home in College Hill, Cincinnati, June 19, 1903.

The cause of death was advancing years and failure of the digestive func- tions. A. G. D.