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sylvania in 1S12. Then he studied abroad under Sir Astley Cooper, Aber- nethy and other eminent teachers of the time. Of a sanguine temperament he put great energy and zeal into his medical work from the first. On his return from abroad he was one of the members of a private medical club including in its membership Channing, Bigelow, Gorham, J. C. Warren and Ware, who met weekly for the reading of medical papers to be published later in the "New England Journal of Med- icine and Surgery." In 1830 Hay- ward joined with J. C. Warren and Enoch Hale in forming a private med- ical school, which lived eight years.

He translated Bichat and Beclard's "General Anatomy," four volumes, 8°, and assisted in framing the report upon small-pox of the consulting physicians of the city of Boston, in 1837, outlining the procedure adopted to-day in handling contagious diseases.

He devoted himself largely to surgical work and was known as a careful and judicious operator, so that in 1835, when Harvard established a professorship of the principles of surgery and clinical surgery, he was chosen to fill the chair. He held teaching clinics at the Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital, where he was visiting sur- geon, and it was he who did the second surgical operation ever done upon a pa- tient under the influence of ether, the removal of a fatty tumor of the shoulder, on October 17, 1846, occupying seven minutes. This was the day following the first operation under ether, by J. C. Warren. On November 7, 1846, he did the first major operation under ether anesthesia in the same institution, amputation of the thigh, occupying a minute and three-quarters exclusive of the tying of the vessels. The operation was done before a large audience of students and physicians, and the patient, a delicate girl of twenty, with a scrofulous knee-joint, was entirely ignorant that her leg had been removed.

When in 1852 he was chosen president of the Massachusetts Medical Society he

was made one of the seven fellows of Harvard College, an office he held until his death, a rather unusual honor to be bestowed on a member of the medical profession. He seems to have been al- most morbid in his fear of publicity, and destroyed all papers that might have been used by future biographers. He published "Some Account of the First Use of Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation in Surgical Practice" in the "Boston Med- ical and Surgical Journal," April 21, 1847. W. L. B.

Hist. Harvard Med. School, T. F. Harrington. Com. Mass. Med. Society, vol. x. The Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia, R. M. Hodges. M. D., Boston, 1891.

Haywood, Edmund Burke (1825-1894).

Of distinguished English and North Carolina ancestry, he was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, January 13, 1825, and during his day was the greatest physician in the state capital. His collegiate edu- cation was obtained at the University of North Carolina and his professional degree from the University of Pennsyl- vania, in 1849.

From 1861-65 he continuously render- ed service to the Confederacy as surgeon of Raleigh Light Infantry; inspector of military hospitals, Morris Island, South Carolina; surgeon-in-charge of Fair Grounds Hospital, Raleigh, North Caro- lina; surgeon at Seabrook Hospital during the fights around Richmond; later sur- geon-in-charge of Pettigrew's Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina.

He served as president of the North Carolina Medical Society (1869), and of the Raleigh Academy of Medicine, having been one of the founders of that institu- tion. The University of North Carolina conferred upon him the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. His contributions to med- ical literature were considered of great value, among them being "The Physician, His Relation to the Community and the Law."

It was largely through his influence that the institution for the colored insane of the state was erected at Goldsboro,