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 FAUNTLEROY

FAUNTLEROY

(surgery section) of the British Med- ical Association in 1897. He was also a member of the Canadian Medical Asso- ciation, before which he delivered a notable address on Surgery.

From 1874 to 1878 Dr. Farrell was a member of the House of Assembly, and a member, without portfolio, of the Provincial Government. At the time of his death, and for years previously, he was president and professor of surgery of the Halifax Medical College, dean of the faculty of medicine in Dalhousie University, and surgeon at the Victoria General Hospital.

He began practice in Halifax, in 1866, and quickly established a reputation for more than ordinary ability, associ- ating himself actively with everything pertaining to the medical life of the city, and being one of the most earnest and devoted of those who fathered and fostered the Halifax Medical College. It was chiefly by his efforts also that the Halifax Infirmary was founded and developed.

Dr. Farrell was survived by a widow and eight children, four sons and four daughters. His eldest son, Dr. Ed- ward D. Farrell, engaged in the practise of medicine in Halifax. His second son, also a physician, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, but lost his life through disease induced by hardship and exposure during the Somaliland expedition in 1906. D. A. C.

Fauntleroy, Archibald Magill (1837 1886). This surgeon and alienist was the son of Gen. Thomas T. Fauntleroy, of the United Slates of America, and born at Warrenton, Virginia, on July 8, 1837. His early youth was passed at military posts on the western fron- tier commanded by his father. Be en- tered the Virginia Military Institute in August, 1853, and graduated with distinction in L857. Then taking up the study of medicine, he spent one session at the University of Virginia, and another al the University "f Penn-

sylvania, from which he graduated in 1860. Passing the examination for the army, he was commissioned an as- sistant surgeon.

He was one of the founders of the Medical Society of Virginia and was elected president in 1871, at the begin- ning of the second year of its existence, and the following year he was made an honorary member. In the society he was very active and influential, and prob- ably did more than any other mem- ber in getting an act passed by the Leg- islature creating a Medical Examining Board.

In April, 1861, he resigned his commis- sion in the army and entered the med- ical corps of the Confederate Army as assistant surgeon, and was promoted to surgeon June 27, 1S61. He did duty in hospitals in various places in Virginia, and later as medical director at Wilmington, North Carolina. From July, 1861, to June, 1862, he served as chief of staff to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and carried his wounded commander from the field of Seven Pines. At the end of the war he settled in Staunton, Virginia, and at once be- came prominent as a physician and sur- geon. Upon the death of Dr. Robert F. Baldwin, the superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, he was elected his successor, in 1880.

He married Sallie Conrad, of Vir- ginia, and several children were born. Three of his sons became physicians, one a dentist. Of the former, all three entered the service of the United Slates, one being in the army, another in the navy, and the third in the marine hospital service.

He died in his fiftieth year, in Staun- ton, June 19, 1886

His contributions to medical litera- ture were not very numerous. They included:

• i :i e of Backward Dislocation of the

Hip Reduced After Twenty-five Days by Manipulation." ("Confederate Slates Medical and Surgical Journal," vol. ii. No. 1.)