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"Inebriety in Women." ("Quarterly Journal for Inebriety," October, 1883.)

"Prison Experiences." ("Medico- Legal Journal," March, 1888.)

"Physical Training for Girls." ("Pop- ular Science Monthly," February, 1885.

"Wherewithal Shall We be Clothed." ("American Woman's Journal," May, 1895.)

A. B. W.

Obituary. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Aug. 2, 1907.

Report of Memorial Service Field in Brook- lyn, Feb. 1, 190S. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Feb. 3, 1908.)

Private information from her partner, Dr. Eliza M. Mosher, from relatives and from members of the American Society of Social Science, (New York Med. Jour., vol. lxxii.)

Hall, J. Randolph (1844-1900).

Randolph N. Hall, the first to operate on the vermiform appendix in the United States, was born in Eagleville, Ashtubula County, Ohio, on April 2, 18-14, gradu- ated at Rush College in 1882, and died of apoplexy on December 30, 1900.

He took his M. D. at the medical college of Leokuk, Iowa, and after practising in Iowa and Kansas came to Chicago where he practised for twenty years. During the Civil War he acted first as drummer boy in the battle of Shiloh, but was captured and spent eight months in prison. When ex- changed he fought through the Mississippi campaign and afterwards in the Veteran Corps of the Army of the Tennessee and underwent a second imprisonment. In Chicago he was president of the Patho- logical Society; lecturer in the College of Physicians and Surgeons on anatomy and surgery and professor and president of the Illinois Medical College.

He performed the first operation on the appendix in the United States (the third on record), in May, 1886, and published it the following month in the "New York Medical Journal." The patient, a boy of seventeen, had had a reducible inguinal hernia since childhood.

This claim, if the qualifications are borne in mind, inns to be fully justified,

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for Kronlein's case, it will be remembered, did not recover, and that of Symonds was not performed for perforative peri- tonitis, nor did he resect the appendix. Hall's operation was undertaken for the relief of an incarcerated strangulated hernia, and the lesion of the appendix was discovered incidentally, so that while the first to succeed in extirpating a perforated appendix, it yet remains for us to discover who executed with inten- tion the first successful operation for disease in that organ.

H. A. K. Chicago Med. Recorder, 1901, xx.

Hall, Lyman (1731-1791).

This Georgian doctor has a place in medical history as a signer of the Declaration of Independence rather than for his professional work. He graduated young and established him- self in Sunbury, Medway, Georgia, to which place he was accompanied by forty families from the New Eng- land States, but apparently the forty families were very healthy or imported another medical adviser, for Hall plunged into politics. When the British took Georgia his property was con- fiscated and he himself had to go north. But, returning in 1782, he was next year made governor of the state, settling in Burke County (a county in Georgia bears his name) and dying there when about sixty years old. An old biographer, while uncertain as to facts, seems sure on the point that he was "six feet high, with easy and polite manners and deportment affable and dignified."

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Biog. of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Phila., 18-19.

Hall, Moses Smith (1824-1905).

He was born at Ilawley Map Virginia, March 1, 1824 and died at Parkersburg, April 9, 1905.

Dr. Hall came to Ritchie County, West Virginia in 1844 and read medi- cine with Dr. (Gen.) Thomas M.