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"Gonorrheal Rheumatism." ("Ibid.," vol. Ixxvii.)

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Bos. Med. and Sur. Jour., vol. cli. Bulletin Harvard Alumni Asso., Apr., 1905.

Gregory, Elisha Hall (1S24-1906).

Elisha Hall Gregory was born in Logan County, Kentucky on the tenth of Sep- tember, 1824 and went to St. Louis and began practice there in 1849. His father emigrated from Kentucky in 1833. As a practitioner of medicine and surgery the son was eminently successful and as a teacher of anatomy and surgery for close on five years in the St. Louis Medical College few if any surpassed him. He served as president of the State Board of Health of Missouri and twice as president of the St. Louis Medical Society also once of the State Medical Association of Missouri. He was in 1866 elected presi- dent of the American Medical As- sociation. He died on the eleventh of February, 1906.

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Griffin, Corbin (17 — 1813), Yorktown, Virginia.

He was the son of Leroy Griffin of Lan- caster County, Virginia, and his wife Mary, daughter of Joseph Bertrand, a French refugee, and was born in Lancas- ter, the year of his birth not being known.

He received a good classical education, and studied medicine at and graduated from the University of Edinburgh. A copy of his thesis, which was published, is in the Towner collection.

Afterwards he settled and practised in Yorktown, Virginia. In the Revolution, or at least in the first years of the war, he served as state surgeon, being first in the navy and later in the hospital at York- town. In May, 1779 he was a member of the Virginia Senate, having been elected for three years. After the war he con- tinued to practise at Yorktown until his death.

He married Elizabeth Berkeley and had one son who married his cousin, Mary, daughter of the Hon. Cyrus

Griffin, last president of the Continental Congress.

Dr. Griffin died September 1, 1813. R. M. S.

Griffin, Ezra Leonard (1821-1892), Hills- boro, New Hampshire.

Ezra Leonard Griffin, son of Eben and Susannah Lewis Griffin, was born Sep- tember 21, 1821, his mother a Bostonian, his father a native of Gloucester.

He entered Dartmouth College in 1844. While there his health failed and forced him to abandon the preparation for the ministry which had been his choice. He left Dartford at the close of his sopho- more year and entered the Berkshire Medical College where he graduated in 1848.

In the same year Dr. Griffin married Abby M., daughter of the Rev. Samuel Mason, of Newburyport, Massachusetts and began professional life in Nashua, New Hampshire. In the autumn of 1855 he removed to Fond du Lac, Wis- consin.

Griffin was prominently indentified with the medical history of Wisconsin for thirty years, being warmly interested in all that related to the practice of medicine, an active supporter of state and local medical societies, deeply interested in the subject of vaccination and was one of the first to establish in the northwest a de- pot for the propagation of animal vaccine.

He was a clear and forcible writer and a prime mover in the organization of the State Board of Health of which he was for many years an honored president.

He died in January, 1892.

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Grinnell, Ashbel Parmalee (1845-1907). This legal physician was born at Mas- scna, New York, December 26, 1845, the son of Josiah Heman Grinnell, a success- ful country practitioner of St. Lawrence County, New York. His early years were spent in study and teaching in the district schools of his own county and his medical degree was taken at the Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College in 1869. Foratime