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He died on the twelfth of April, 1877, when sixty-one years old.

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Early Medical Chicago. J. N. Hyde, Chicago,

1879.

Distinguished Phys. and Surgs. of Chicago.

F. M. Sperry, Chicago, 1904.

French, George Franklin (1837-1897).

The son of John Andrew and Mary Elizabeth (Twombly) French, he was born on October 30, 1837 in Dover, New Hamp- shire and fitted for college at the Dover High School, graduating from Harvard in 1859 and taking his M. D. there in 1862, the M. A. being conferred on him by his alma mater in 1871.

After nearly a year's experience in the hospitals of Alexandria, Virginia, as act- ing assistant surgeon he was, in 1863, commissioned surgeon of the United States Volunteers by Pres. Lincoln and entered on the personal staff of Gen. Grant, with whom he remained until the latter departed for Washington in 1864, when he was assigned to duty in establish- ing field hospitals in the wake of Sher- man's army. On Sherman's march to the sea he was surgeon-in-chief of the first division of the fifteenth army corps. At the close of the war he was breveted lieutenant-colonel and tendered a com- mission in the regulars, which he declined, entering into practice at Portland, Maine, where he remained thirteen years, occupy- ing also the chairs of physiology, practice of medicine and obstetrics in the Portland School of Medical Instruction. On Oc- tober 14, 1S62, he married Clara A., daughter of Dr. Levi G. Hill of Dover, New Hampshire. In 1879, on account of the ill health of his wife, he removed to the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lived until his death. Here he was at once accorded first rank by his pro- fessional brethren. He had the zeal of a true humanitarian, laboring assiduously and earnestly to build and foster hospitals and a school of medicine in his adopted city where he died on July 13, 1897.

He was one of the founders and incor- porators of till' Minnesota College llil

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pital and professor of gynecology there, later occupying the same chair in the Minnesota Hospital College, now the University of Minnesota; president of the Medical Society of Maine and the Ameri- can Medical Association. His contri- butions to the current medical literature of his day are in "The Medical and Sur- gical History of the War of the Rebel- lion;" "The Maine Medical Transact ions;" "American Journal of Obstetrics;" the " Reports of the American Medical Asso- ciation." B. F.

Frick, Charles (1823-1860).

Charles Frick, a son of the Hon. Wil- liam Frick, judge of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, was born in Baltimore on August 8, 1S23. Educated at Balti- more College, he afterwards studied engineering, but after three years aban- doned this intention and in 1843 began to study medicine under Dr. Thomas H. Buckler. In 1S45 he graduated M. D. in the University of Maryland, his inaugural thesis being on "Puerperal Fever," the contagious character of which he main- tained in accordance with the view then recently advanced by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and he supported his opinion by cases observed by himself at a time when the character of the disease in this re- spect was not so generally admitted. An important pamphlet from his pen in 1846 in which Dr. Washington F. Anderson was associated with him, was cases illustrating the pigmentary changes in the liver in remittent fever correspond- ing with the observations of Dr. Steward- son which were then new. While still an undergraduate, Dr. Frick gave much at- tention to the study of renal pathology and published, in 1850, his work on "Renal Affections." In this he aimed at clearing up the somewhat confused ideas existing as to the relation between albuminuria an' I the organic changes in the kidney, and showed that the mere presence of albumin does not of itself indicate or- ganic disease — a truism now, but one which he helped to establish.

In 185S Dr. Frick was elected to