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Dr. Coverton, Toronto, graduating in 1851 at Harvard Medical School. At Harvard he had the advantage of in- struction from and personal contact with such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jacob Bigelow, John Ward and James B. Jackson, taking an excellent stand in his class and graduating with honor. He settled in Rochester, New York, but before he had been long engaged in practice he was able by a fortunate legacy to realize his de- sire to travel abroad. Returning in 1853, he settled in Rochester, New York, again, but during the year, in company with Dr. E. M. Moore, an eminent surgeon of Western New York, removed to Columbus, Ohio, where soon after he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in Starling Medical College. In 1S55 he received a provisional appointment as second assistant physician in the Central In- sane Asylum at Columbus, Ohio. His fitness for the work was so apparent, the temporary appointment soon be- came a permanent one. From 1855 to 1857 he was one of the associate editors of the "Ohio Medical and Sur- gical Journal." In 1857 he was trans- ferred to the Southern Ohio Asylum at Dayton as assistant physician, of which asylum he became medical superin- tendent in 1861. This position he filled with signal ability until 1872, when he was transferred to the Southeastern Asylum at Athens, Ohio, then in pro- cess of erection, to complete and pre- pare the buildings for occupation. Sub- sequently, on the completion of the asylum in 1874, he was appointed its first medical superintendent and retained the position until 1877, when he was trans- ferred to Columbus, Ohio, to complete and make ready for occupation the very extensive buildings of that asylum.

After twenty-three years of most faithful, devoted and self-sacrificing service to the insane of Ohio in three of the asylums, he was forced to resign because his political affinities did not correspond with those of the newly

elected governor. To a sensitive, high- minded physician like Dr. Gundry the blow was a severe one, and he felt the injustice of this treatment to the day of his death. He was immediately ap- pointed medical superintendent of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Catonsville, and held the position until he died. In 1880 he received the appoint- ment of professor of mental and nervous diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, and in the following year, upon the sudden death of Prof. Howard, was appointed professor of materia medica in the same • college, and there lectured with great acceptance during the remainder of his life. In January, 1890, he suffered severely from influenza, and for a time was very seriously ill; but he subse- quently rallied and apparently gained his usual health. Although he lectured as usual, his duties cost him much effort. In March, 1891, the trustees of the Maryland Hospital perceiving his condition, voted to give him a long leave of absence, with the hope that his health would be restored. He went to Atlantic City and for a time seemed to improve. Subsequently, however, severe symptoms of Bright's disease developed, and it was evident that his days were numbered. In accordance with his earnest desire he was brought home where, four days later, he pass- ed away, surrounded by his family and devoted friends.

Dr. Gundry's career as chief medical officer of an institution for the insane was most successful. The literature of alienism was familiar to him, and his speeches and writings upon all matters touching insanity showed an intimate knowledge of the work which others had done. He was also an expert in asylum construction, and the asylums at Dayton, Athens and Columbus were in turn built by him. He was an om- nivorous reader, a ready writer, a clear and pleasant speaker, with rare gifts of expression and vast stores of knowl- edge at instant command. His mem-