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pathic difficulties. It should have been said that when he accepted the professor- ship at Pittsfield he settled there to prac- tise, but abandoned that for Portland in 1S68, remaining there thirteen years.

In 1872 he was professor of surgery in the Long Island Hospital Medical School, in all the positions occupied winning ample renown as a clear, forcible lecturer, and a clinical teacher of extraordinary proficiency. In 1880 he was president of the Maine Medical Association and in 1873 he gave a most attractive oration on the "Scientific Spirit." In 1S67 he printed four surgical papers in the " Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," and one on a Cesarean operation in 1SG8.

He operated with grace, was rapid, yet safe, his bearing equal to his dexterity, and at the age of thirty-four he removed successfully a large bronchocele declared by the most noted surgeons to be un- operable, and was equally successful in goitre operations.

His remarkable case of resuscitation of a woman declared to be dead and already coffined, by the ingenious use of the hy- podermic injection of phosphoric acid, so that the patient survived him for thirty years, will long remain apparently miraculous in the annals of medicine in Maine.

Dr. Greene was twice married ; in 1 S55 to Lizzie Carleton, of Waterville, and at her death in 1861 to Elizabeth Lawrence, of Pownal, who died in 1876. Two children survived him; one, who married Dr. Addison Thayer, of Portland, the other, Dr. Charles Lawrence, of St. Paul, Minne- sota, who inherited much of his father's talent.

In July, 18S1, William Warren Greene went to England to attend the Inter- national Medical Congress, and while returning home died from uremic con- vulsions and was buried at sea, Septem- ber 10, 1881. J. A. S. Trans. Maine Med. Assoc. Portland, 1SS3, viii.

Greenough, Francis Boott (1837-1904).

Francis Boott Greenough was born in Boston December 24, 1S37. He was the

son of Henry and Frances Boott Green- ough, his mother being a niece of Kirk Boott, one of the first cotton manufac- turers of Lowell, Massachusetts.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1S59 and from the Harvard Medical School in 1866. In 1870 the University gave him her A. M. Previous to gradu- ating in medicine he spent a year in the Lawrence Scientific School connected with Harvard, and went abroad for two years studying architecture and medicine at Pisa and Florence.

He was acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army during the summer and autumn of 1864. In 1865 and 1866 he was house physician in the Massachu- setts General Hospital. After graduat- ing from the medical school he spent a year in Vienna, and in October, 1S67 be- gan to practise medicine in Boston. He gave his greatest attention to skin dis- eases and syphilis from the first and in the later years of his practice was regarded as an authority on geni to-urinary diseases and syphilis. He was clinical instructor in syphilis in the Harvard Medical School from 1S75 to 1895. He was in charge of the department of skin and venereal diseases of the Boston Dispensary from 1S73 to 1900. At one time he was surgeon to the Carney Hospital (1868-1876), also to St. Joseph's Home, and physician to the Children's Hospital.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and other socie- ties. His tall, commanding presence was a familiar figure on the streets of Boston for thirty years.

Dr. Greenough never married and re- tired from active practice several years before his death, which occurred in Brookline, Massachusetts, October 16, 1904.

Among his writings are:

"Treatment of Permanent Urethral Stricture." (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," vol. lxxvii.)

"Pediculi Vestamentorum." ("Ibid.," vol. lxxvii.)