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Haines, Job (1791-1860).

He was born in New Jersey, October 28, 1791, and had his degree from Princeton College; that of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, in the class of 1815.

Seeking a career in the far West, he finally made choice of Dayton, Ohio, for a permanent home (January, 1817), where his culture and strong personality gained him early recognition. He was deeply religious, and while he never offensively obtruded his belief, it was no unusual thing for him to close a professional visit with a Bible reading or short prayer. In a day when the sturdy pioneers considered whiskey one of the staples of life in this ague-strick- en region, Dr. Haines was the head and front of all anti-liquor leagues, and never lost an opportunity to preach the gospel of temperance.

The Dayton Public Library contains his diary for the years 1816 to 1820. It is valuable as an index to the medical practice of his time, but the daily routine of bleeding, catharsis, blistering and sweating therein recorded is ap- palling to a twentieth century practi- tioner. In a case of meningitis, 120 grains of calomel were given in the twenty-four hours.

On the twenty-fifth day of the same illness the entry reads: "She continues to take from twenty to forty grains of calomel per day, which is neither suffi- cient to keep the bowels open or to pro- duce ptyalism," and yet, in addition, "calomel was frequently rubbed on the gums and mercurial ointment on the skin." These clinical records show that in those days the lancet was seldom sheathed, and recall the trenchant sar- casm of Boileau, slightly paraphrased:

"The one died empty of blood, the other full of calomel." Dr. Haines

held various municipal and county offices, and was mayor of the town in 1833, known as the cholera year, when his official acts did much to re- store confidence to the panic stricken people.

He died in July, 1860.

W. J. C.

Hale, Enoch (1790-1848).

Enoch Hale was born in West Hamp- ton, Massachusetts, in 1790. In early life his health was poor, he having a cough with hemoptysis. He went to New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended Prof. Silliman's lectures and devoted himself to the study of chem- istry, later studying medicine with Dr. Hooker of his native town and then removing to Boston to continue these studies with Dr. Jacob Bigelow and John Warren. He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1S13, with an inaugural dissertation on "Experi- ments on the Production of Animal Heat by Respiration." It was publish- ed and called forth a rejoinder from Sir Benjamin Brodie, in the columns of the " London Medical and Physical Journal."

Hale settled in Gardiner, Maine, where he had a friend, Benjamin Vaugh- an, a learned English gentleman and recent settler in Gardiner, having a large acquaintance among scientific men abroad, and the possessor of a large library. Hale studied meterolog- ical problems and wrote the "History and Description of an Epidemic Fever, commonly called Spotted Fever, which prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the spring of 1814."

He removed to Boston and was ap- pointed district physician to the Bos- ton Dispensary in 1819. In this year he published a dissertation which re-