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 GLEASON

GLONINGER

"A Septic and Unusual Form of Lung Disease Existing in the Mississippi Valley during the Years 1886-7-8-9-90." ("American Journal of the Medical Sciences," March, 1890.)

"A New and Distinguishing Sign of Latent Aneurysm of the Aorta." ("New York Medical Journal," September 15, 1894.)

" The Physical Signs of Septic Cellular Edema of the Lungs Considered in their Relation to the Pathological Changes." (" Transactions of the American Climat- ological Association," 1S94.)

Dr. Glasgow married, in 1877, Fanny Englesing of Port Gibson, Mississippi and died at St. Louis when in his sixty-third year, leaving a widow, four sons and a daughter.

D. W.

St. Louis Med. Review, June, 1907.

Quar. Bull. Med., Dpt. Washington Univ.'

June, 1907.

Gleason, Rachel Brooks (1820-1905).

One of the early women physicians, she was born in Winhall, Vermont, No- vember 27, 1820, and married a young Vermont doctor who opened an infirm- ary in the country for chronic invalids, shortly after acquiring his own diploma. In the management of his lady patients, the young doctor often found it an ad- vantage to be assisted by his wife as an intermediary — on the one side to relate symptoms, on the other to prescribe the directions. Thus the wife became grad- ually associated with the husband's work, while he remained generously alive to her interests. At that time, 1849, the Phila- delphia school for women had not yet opened, so Dr. Gleason, in order to secure an opportunity for his wife for some kind of systematic medical education, persuaded the eclectics assembled in council to open the doors of their new school at Rochester, New York, to women.

Mrs. Gleason died in Buffalo, New York, March 14, 1905. She had two children, one of whom, a daughter, was educated as a physician.

She wrote:

"Talks to my Patients, Hints on Getting Well and Keeping Well."

A. B. W.

Personal Information, Mary Putnam Jacobi. Woman's Work in America in Medicine, Henry- Holt Co., 1891. Gleaves, Samuel C. (1823-1890).

Physician and surgeon in the Confeder- ate States Army, he was born in Wythe County, Virginia, October 12, 1823 and educated at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, and studied medicine at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1840. He then settled in Wytheville.

In 1861 he entered the service of the Confederate States as surgeon of the forty-fifth regiment of Virginia Infantry. Later on he was made a medical director. At the end of the war he resumed prac- tice, taking the most active interest in everything that could in any way ad- vance the profession.

The fact that he was elected a presi- dent of the state society when none but those of the very highest standing in the profession were accorded that honor speaks for itself.

He was twice married ; first in Septem- ber, 1849, to Maria L. Crocket of Wythe County, Virginia, and had three sons, all of whom survived their father. His first wife died in March, 1878, and in June, 1822, he married Mrs. F. D. McCaa, of Mobile, Alabama, but had no children.

After a lingering illness of several months he died at his home in Wythe- ville, Virginia, January 14, 1890.

As has been said, he was a ready writer and made numerous communications of value to medical literature.

"Pistol Shot Wound of the Right Ileum." ("Transactions of the Medical Society of Virginia," 1873.)

" ( Karian Tumor, Fatal." (" Virginia Medical Monthly," vol. iii.) R. M. S. Hi lied. Soc. of Va., 1890.

Gloninger, John W. (1798-1874).

John W. Gloninger was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1798 and had his early training under a famous local