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"Causes of Water Contamination," 1893.

" Address as President of the West Vir- ginia State Medical Association," 1S94. "Positivism in Medicine," 1896. "The Case of Theodore Durrant Psy- chologically Considered," 1898.

S. L. J. In the Transactions of the W. Va. State Medical Asso., for 1900, is a fuller sketch, with half-tone portrait.

Heister, John P. (1803-1854).

John P. Heister was born July 3, 1803, in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. He died September 15, 1854. When but a youth he showed a great interest in study and eagerly read all books that came within his reach. After receiving his M. D. he practised in his native place. Shortly after in order to satisfy his thirst for knowledge and at the same time benefit failing health, he determined to take a journey to Europe, so on the sixteenth day of April, 1841, he set sail and visited England, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, and, after spend- ing a year in Europe returned to resume practise. He had kept notes on his journey abroad, which were printed under the title of " Notes of Travel" wherein he described the different places visited, especially the different botanical gardens, and in an enthusiastic sketch described his visit to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

Botany was his favorite study, al- though he was also more or less attached to the science of geology. He had a fine collection of specimens of the different woods of Berks County, well ai ranged in library form ; a part of the limb or branch formed the back of the book to which was attached a tin box to hold the seed vessels, flowers, etc.

From a sketch by Dr. W. Herbst in the Botanists of Philadelphia by John W. Harshberger, 1899.

Heitzman, Carl (1836-1896).

Carl Heitzman was born in Hungary in 1836 and died in Rome, Italy, December, 1896.

He was one of the founders of the

American Dermatological Association and an active member of the New York Dermatological Society, while his name appears as a contributor to or speaker at nearly all of the earlier meetings of both organizations.

He also wrote a great many articles on skin diseases for both American and Ger- man journals, his writings demonstrating considerable clinical ability as he was an expert microscopist and an exact writer on the anatomy and histopathology of the skin.

Perhaps his most important paper was the one entitled "Microscopic Studies of Inflammations of the Skin," published in "Archives of Dermatology," Philadel- phia, 1S79.

His writings included:

Chief Writings.

"Chirurgische Pathologie und Thera- pie, " two volumes (1864-8).

" Untersuchungen iiber das Proto- plasma." I. " Bau des Protoplasmas," 1873.

"The Minute Anatomy of the Teeth in the Light of the Bioplasson Theory, and the Minute Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, and Therapeutics of the Dental Pulp," by C. P. W. Bodecker, Philadelphia, 1882.

"The Intimate Nature of Tuberculosis; Its Transmissibility and Its Parasitic Origin," 1883.

" Der descriptiven und topographischen Anatomie des Menschen," 1S70.

With Frank Abbott, "Contributions to the Knowledge of Tumors of the Jaws," Philadelphia, 1888.

With Frank Abbott, "Senile Atrophy of the Upper Jaw," 11 pp., 8°. Phila- delphia, 1882.

With C. F. W. Bodecker, "Contri- butions to the History of Development of the Teeth," New York, 1888.

J. M. W.

Dental Cosmos, Phila., 1897, xxxix.

N. Y. med. Monatschr., 1S97, ix (L. Weber)

Helmuth, William Tod (1S33-1902).

William Tod Helmuth, surgeon and dean of the New York Homeopathic Col-