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1869 at the head of his class, receiv- ing both the university and the Starr gold medals. The following year he was appointed resident physician of the Brooklyn City Hospital. After this he was appointed Surgeon without Rank in the Prussian Army, which position he held throughout the Franco- Prussian War. He then engaged in post-graduate work in Vienna, after which he went to London, where he soon obtained the diploma of L. R. C. P.

On July 15, 1873, he married Mary Jane, daughter of the Hon. J. C. Aikens, and settled down to regular practice in Toronto, where he was at once rec- cognized as a capable physician. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the visiting staff of the Toronto Gen- eral Hospital, which position he held at the time of his death. After he had been in Toronto about three years he was attached to the staff of the Toronto School of Medicine, where he did work as demonstrator of anatomy and dem- onstrator of microscopy. He was for two years lecturer on chemistry, but gave this up, preferring to devote him- self to clinical teaching in the General Hospital. On the reorganization of the medical faculty of the University of Toronto in 1887 he was appointed professor of clinical medicine and lec- turer in dermatology, and in 1892 professor of medicine and clinical medicine.

Soon after commencing the practice of medicine he began to pay especial attention to pure medicine and to der- matology, and was the first physician in Ontario to give up general practice and become a consulting physician.

He was an active member of many medical societies: in 1887 president of the Dominion Medical Association, in 1889 president of the American Der- matological Association. He was one of the original members of the American Association of Physicians. In 1893 he left Toronto for a time, made his home in London, and took his M. R. C. P. (London). He was most interested

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in all of his medical associations, both in Canada and the United States, and was past president of nearly every association that he belonged to, includ- ing the Toronto Medical, the Toronto. Pathological, etc. At the time of his death he was president of the Ontario Medical Association.

A frequent contributor to medical literature, he also took a deep interest in matters pertaining to medical edu- cation, especially in its practical as- pects, and exercised a wide influence as a clinical teacher, being one of the first to give systematic bedside instruc- tion in the General Hospital. For many years he was a member of the Senate, first as representative of the Toronto School of Medicine, and afterwards of the Graduates in Medicine.

Strict integrity, unvarying courtesy and kindness, steadfastness of pur- pose, and charity towards all men were his marked characteristics.

In 1899 he went south for his health. While in Baltimore he was taken with influenza, followed by a slight pulmo- nary tuberculosis, which, engrafted on a system weakened by diabetes, proved rapidly fatal. He died in Muskoka, Canada, July 6, 1899, in the fifty- third year of his age, leaving a widow and four children, and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

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Gram, Hans Burch (1786-1840).

Known in the States as the pioneer of homeopathy in America, Hans Burch Gram was born in Boston, 1786. His father, a wealthy sea captain of Copen- hagen, was, when a young man, secretary to the Danish West India governor and came to the States soon after the Revolu- tion and was disinherited by his father for marrying a Miss Burdick, the daughter of a hotel keeper in Boston, so he re- mained in that city until his death in 1807.

His eldest son, Hans, had been care- fully educated and was already studying medicine when the death of his father