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professor in the Wooster Medical College without detriment to either. At the close of his connection with 'Wooster he was made professor emeritus, and in 1874 received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Ohio, located at Athens. He died of apoplexy at Wooster, Novem- ber 9, 1888, leaving a son, Dr. W. W. Firestone, who continued his practice in Wooster until he also died.

Dr. Leander Firestone was president of the State Society in 1S59-60 and a member of the Boston Gynecological Society.

In addition to his valedictory address to the Ohio State Medical Society (" Trans- actions of the Ohio State Medical Society," I860), numerous papers from his pen are to be found in the pages of contem- porary medical journals.

In 1839 he married Susannah Firestone and had two sons, William W. and M. O., who both became doctors.

H. E. H.

Columbus Medical Journal, vol. vii. Cleveland Medical Gazette, vol. iv.

Fisher, George Jackson (1825-1893).

It takes men of all kinds to make a complete medical portraiture of the country, and the bibliophile has his place in the collection. George Jackson Fisher, of Westchester, Co., where he was born November 22, 1825, had a strong liking for natural history but was withal a de- cided booklover, a taste which his med- ical profession gave him ample excuse for indulging. He studied medicine first under Prof. Nelson Nivison in Mecklen- burg and attended medical lectures after- wards at the University of the city of New York whence he graduated in 184!) and began to practise with his teacher, but in 1851 removed to Sing Sing and lived there until he died, successful as a surgeon in all the major operations in- cluding Cesarean section, ligation of the carotid artery, etc., and writing a good deal on teratology. A paper on " Diplo- teratology" appeared in the "Trans- actions of the Medical Society," Si air of New York, from 1863-8, and an article on

"Teratology" for Johnsons "Universal Cyclopedia," vol. iv. Thoroughly im- bued besides in medical history, he wrote "The Old Masters of Anatomy, Surgery and Medicine," "The Medical Men of Westchester County," and grangerized S. D. Gross' "Autobiogra- phy" by adding over four hundred illus- trations and forty autograph letters. He began to illustrate also "The Gold Headed Cane." His collection of some four thousand books, his fine engravings of old doctors, his big show of over four hundred medical medals made his library a delight to himself, his confreres, and his friends.

He came by his death as many an- other has done, by blood poisoning after an operation, and a long-standing dia- betes rendered him unable to stand against it.

He had many honors, among them the M. A. of Madison University; presi- dent of the Medical Society of the State of New York; physician to the State Prisons, Sing Sing, and twenty years brigade surgeon, New York S. M. He was also editor of "The Physician and Pharma- ceutist," 1868-9.

Med. Rec, N. Y., 1893, xliii. Tr. M. .Soc. N. Y., Phila., 1S93.

Fisher, John Dix (1797-1850).

John Dix Fisher, founder of, and physi- cian to, the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was the son of Aaron and Lucy Stedman Fisher, and born in Needham, March 27, 1797. He died at his home in Hayward Place, in Boston, March 2, 1S50.

He graduated from Brown University in 1S20, then went to the Harvard Medi- cal School from which he received his degree in 1825. In the same year he urn i i.i Paris, where he spent two years in

I lical study under Lacnnec, Andral,

ami Velpeau. In 1829 he published a book in Boston on "Confluent and In- oculated Small-pox, Varioloid Disease, ( ... pox, and Chicken-pox" from mate- rials collected in Paris. It is dedicated to Dr. James Jackson, from whom he con-