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 HENRY

HERDMAN

Dr. Henrotin was an ardent advocate of higher standards of medical education. He published a booklet, " Democracy of Education in Medicine," which is replete with many practical suggestions on this important subject.

His wife survived him. The universal esteem in which the deceased was held became apparent at the funeral services, which were held in the Holy Name Cathe- dral and were attended by nearly two thousand mourners, among them several hundred physicians.

To Henrotin death came prematurely, and his most bitter regret was that he had to leave so much undone. His in- tention was to retire to his beautiful country home in the course of years, and devote the remainder of his life to the en- joyments of simple nature, to the writing of a novel of social life, of which he had seen so much, good and bad, and to write a work on pelvic surgery. N. S.

Surgery, Gyne. and Obstet., Jan., 1907. Jour. Am. lied. Ass., Dec., 1906, vol. xlvii.

Henry, Morris Henry (1835-1895).

Morris Henry Henry was born in Lon- don in 1835 and came to the United States in 1852. His father was a cele- brated Oriental scholar. Dr. Henry was educated at the Polytechnic in Brussels and at the Government School, Somerset House, London, graduating in medicine from the University of Vermont, 1860, and taking his M. A. there in 1S76, and his LL. D. from the University of North Carolina, 1885.

After graduating in medicine he joined the United States Navy, serving under Admiral Farragut during the Civil War, then settling in New York City, he en- gaged in general practice and was for many years surgeon-in-chief to the de- partment of venereal and skin disease, New York Dispensary.

He was the organizer of the Ambulance Service of New York City; a member of the University of Athens, and had been decorated by the King of Greece and the Sultan of Turkey for services.

In 1870 he edited the "American Jour-

nal of Syphilography and Dermatology," the first American journal on these subjects.

He died in New York, May 17, 1895. J. M. W. Med. Rec. N. Y., 1S95, xlv.i.

Herdman, William James (1848-1896). William James Herdman, alienist, was born September 7, 1848, at Concord, Muskingum County, Ohio, of Scotch-Irish ancestors and had a general education in the common schools, and Michigan Uni- versity, whence, in 1872, he received the degree of Ph. B. and in 1875 his M. D. and was successively there in 1S75-90, demonstrator of anatomy; 1S79-80, lec- turer on pathological anatomy; 1SS0, 82, assistant professor of pathological anat- omy; 1SS2-8S, professor of practical and pathological anatomy; 1888-90, professor of practical anatomy and diseases of the nervous system; 1890-9S, professor of nervous diseases and electrotherapeutics; 1898-1906, professor of diseases of the mind and nervous system and of electro- therapeutics. For many years he gave special lectures to the law department classes. From 1882-1887, professor of orthopedic surgery in the Northwestern (Ohio) Medical College. During the same period he was consulting surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital in Toledo, Ohio; mem- ber of the American Electro-therapeutic Association, president in 1894; member of the Michigan State Medical Society and the Zanesville Academy of Medicine; fellow of the American Academy of Medi- cine. In 1897 the University of Nash- ville gave him the degree of LL. D. He was very active in promoting the Young Men's Chri; t.ian Association in the univer- sity, and a strong worker in the Presby- terian Church in Ann Arbor. He was active in securing rational anatomical laws regulating the dissection of human bodies and also, with Dr. Langley, in es- tablishing the electrotherapeutic labors tory in the University of Michigan, one of the first in the country. He was the founder of the department of nervous diseases in the university. The Psycho-