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ceived the Boylston prize in Harvard University, and another in 1S21, also gaining a Boylston prize. He was one of the early visiting physicians to the Massachusetts General Hospital and in 1839 published a work entitled, "Observations on the Typhoid Fever of New England," the oration at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

In the latter years of his life Hale suffered with Bright's disease and worked handicapped with great pain. He was honest, frank and somewhat intolerant of unfairness in others.

He died November 12, 1848.

W. L. B.

Bos. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. xxxix. Communications Mass. Med. Soc, vol. viii.

Hall-Brown, Lucy (1843-1907).

A general practitioner and keen on education, Lucy Hall-Brown was born in Holland, Vermont in November, 1S43, a descendant of Gov. Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts.

She passed her early life in the North- west, and in 1S76 entered the Univer- sity of Michigan for a medical course. Upon graduation in 1S78 she served for six months as assistant physician under Dr. Eliza M. Mosher at the Mass- achusetts Reformatory Prison for Wo- men. She then pursued post-graduate work in New York and London, being the first woman admitted to clinics in St. Thomas's Hospital, London. Later she became interne at the Royal Ly- ing-in and Gynecological Hospital of Prof. Winckel in Dresden. Upon her arrival in Dresden, she knew scarce- ly any German, but after a month's study she had acquired sufficient knowl- edge to warrant Dr. Winckel in admit- ting her to his hospital. On the com- pletion of study and service abroad, in 1S79 and while still in Dresden she was appointed by Gov. Talbot on Dr. Mosher's recommendation, resident- physician to the Massachusetts Reforma- tory and returned at once to take up the work; later she received but

declined the appointment as super- intendent. In 1883 Dr. Eliza M. Mosh- er, being appointed professor of physi- ology, hygiene and resident physician to Vassar College, asked to have Dr. Hall appointed to share the work, the two at this time starting a partnership, beginning their private work in Brook- lyn and serving alternately at college. At the end of three years she gave her entire time to practice in Brooklyn and continued so working until three years before her death.

Dr. Hall was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, member of Kings County Medical Society, member of Brooklyn Pathological So- ciety. Her standing in medical juris- prudence was recognized by the courts of justice in New York and she was often as an expert requested by the Supreme Court to take charge of ex- aminations instituted by that tribunal.

In 1891 Lucy Hall married R. G. Brown, electrical engineer. In 1904, her health impaired by an increasing heart weakness, they removed to Los Angeles and afterwards made a visit to Japan, where characteristically she visited hospitals, schools, missions, prisons and police courts. So highly was her interest valued that on leav- ing she was urged by the officials of medical and public education in that empire to return and lecture on physiol- ogy and hygiene. The invitation was a great compliment, and she returned for several months, lecturing in lead- ing institutions in the great cities.

She died in Los Angeles August 1, 1907 of valvular disease of the heart. She kept always in touch with scientific progress and possessed the courage to readjust opinions, and into her life came honors and responsibilities well earned and vindicated by the use she made of them to humanity.

Some of her most important articles are:

"Unsanitary Condition of Country Houses." ("Journal of Social Science," December, 1888.)