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in 1SS8-91 he was dean of the medical department of the University of Michi- gan. In 1859 Middlebury College, Ver- mont, gave him her M. A.; in 1S81 Michigan University her LL. D. To the University library Dr. and Mrs. Ford gave an endowment of $20,000. Nature made him a teacher, and indus- try and necessity compelled his high- est evolution. He taught only the science of anatomy as it applied to the work of the active physician and sur- geon, but his own enthusiasm for it so infected his students that they saw the dry bones live and many became notable physicians and surgeons. He was five feet ten inches tall, dark hair, large head and prominent features. His mild blue eyes scintillated mar- velously to aid in expressing his thoughts always in unison with his gestures and body movements. His few words, short sentences, were most clearly enunciated and emphatic. In April, 1865, he married Mrs. Messer of Pittsfield, Mas- sachusetts. They had no children. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 14, 1894, from apoplexy. L. C.

Hist. Univ. Mich., Ann Arbor, Mich., 1904. Representative Men in Mich. West. Pub. Co., Cincin., O., 1878, vol. ii.

Memorial Discourses on Corydon L. Ford, by Dr. V. C. Vaughn and Martin L. D'Ooge, Ann Arbor, 1894.

There is a portrait by Ravenaugh in the Med- ical Faculty Room at Ann Arbor.

Forster, Edward Jacob (1S46-1896).

Edward Jacob Forster was the son of Jacob and Louisa (Webb) Forster, descendants of one Reginald Forster, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1638. He (Edward) was born in Charles- town, Massachusetts July 9, 1846, and went to public schools, graduating from the Harvard Medical School in 1S68 then studying medicine in Paris and in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, where he was an interne. In 1S69 he was a licentiate in midwifery of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, returning to begin practice in Charlestown the same year. He

had his home and a major part of his practice in Charlestown, a part of Bos- ton, until 1891 when he removed to the Back Bay district. He was city physician of Charlestown from 1871 to 1S72. For eight years he was vis- iting physician to the Boston City Hospital and was one of the two orig- inal visiting physicians for the diseases of women on the formation of the de- partment of gynecology in that institu- tion in 1S92, holding the position at the time of his death. He was one of the original members of the Massachu- setts Board of Registration in Medi- cine when it was first created in 1894, an active member of the Obstetrical Society of Boston; surgeon of the Fifth Regiment for ten years, then medical director of the First Brigade and finally surgeon-general of Massachusetts.

Dr. Forster was the author of a " Man- ual for Medical Officers of the Militia of the United States," New York, 1877; " Mushrooms and Mushroom Poisoning," Boston, 1890; "A Sketch of the Medical Profession in Suffolk County," Boston, 1894; "A Catalogue of the Officers, Fel- lows and Licentiates of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1781-1893," Boston, 1894.

He married September 5, 1S71, Anita Damon, daughter of Dr. Henry Lyon (Harvard College, 1835). They had three children, all girls. Dr. Forster died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage May 15, 1S96 in New York on his return from Philadelphia, whither he had gone on official duty as surgeon general of Massachusetts. W. L. B.

Physicians and Surgeons of America, I. A

Watson.

Hist, of Boston City Hos., 1906.

Foster, George Winslow (1S45-1904).

Although practising and occupy- ing hospital positions in several states of the union, George Winslow Foster did most of his medical work in Maine, and died while in charge of the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum at Bangor.

He was born in Burnham, Maine,