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Royal College of Surgeons and of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, and dedicated to the ophthal- mologist William Lawrence. Numer- ous foot-notes were added, but the text suffered no change. H. F.

Early History Ophthalmology, Frieden- wald. John Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1897.

The Development of Ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870. Alvin A. Hubbell, 1908.

Med. Annals of Maryland. E. F. Cordell, 1903.

Friedenwald, Aaron (1836-1902).

Aaron Friedenwald was born De- cember 20, 1836 in Baltimore, Maryland, and after receiving an ordinary school education, entered a counting room. When he reached the age of twenty- one he took up medicine, becoming an office student of the late Dr. N. R. Smith, and graduating in the spring of 1860 at the University of Maryland. He then visited Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Paris, and London to continue his medical studies. He was particularly attracted by Arlt and Von Graefe. While spending much time on general medicine, he devoted himself especially to ophthalmology. Returning to Bal- timore, he did not limit himself to special work, but like many others of that day practised general medicine beside the specialty. At the time of his return there was no other oph- thalmologist in the city, George Frick having retired from practice a long time before.

In 1873 he was elected to the pro- fessorship of diseases of the eye and ear in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a position which he filled with Kreat merit until his death, Au- gust 26, 1902.

"He was always interesting . . . and enthusiastic. As he grew older his interest did not flag, and there was no change in the tone and vigor of his lectures. He was always ready for a joke or a good story to enliven his class, and there existed between teacher

and student a very pleasant good fellowship."

He held a high position in the pro- fession of his state, and in 1889 was elected president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. Be- sides this he contributed numerous articles on ophthalmological subjects, the subject of his special interest being the relationship between diseases of the eye and other parts of the body. He was deeply interested in all medical affairs and in communal matters as well. A service of the most important kind was his calling into existence, in 1890, the present Association of American Medical Colleges, which has played so important a part in raising the standard of medical teaching in this country.

He died in Baltimore August 26, 1902. H. F.

Life, Letters, and Addresses of Aaron Fried- enwald, by Dr. Harry Friedenwald.

Frissell, John (1810-1893).

John Frissell was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts March 8, 1810, his father a farmer, Amasa Frissell, whose forebears were Scotch, his mother of English parentage, by name Wilcox. Their four sons were given a good educa- tion and John Frissell went from the old Hadley Academy to Williams College, where he graduated A. B. in 1831. He then studied medicine with Dr. Ebenezer Emmons, a physician in Williamstown. Young Frissell served as his assistant for two years in the laboratory and during the next three years attended lectures at Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, graduating M. D. in 1834 and taking the degree of A. M. from Williams College the same year. During these years and that following he was also prosector and demonstrator of anatomy under Prof. Willard Parker.

In 1840 he went to Wheeling, West Virginia, and soon became the leading Burgeon of the state and of the adjacent parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was the medical founder of the \\ heel- ing Hospital in 1850 and served as