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to practise there until his death from uremia, January 28, 1901.

In 1S66 Dr. Herrick was elected to the chair of obstetrics and the diseases of children in the Charity Hospital Medical College of Cleveland, and four years later was transferred to the chair of the principles of surgery in the same institution, then known, however, as the medical department of the Univer- sity of Wooster. On the reorganiza- tion of this college in 1881, Dr. Herrick resigned his position and accepted the chair of pathology and hygiene in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. Subsequently he was transferred to the chair of gynecol- ogy and hygiene there and, on his re- tirement, was honored with the title of professor emeritus.

He was president of the Ohio State Medical Society in 1873-4 and of the Ohio State Sanitary Association, the Northeastern Ohio Medical Society and the Cuyahoga County Medical Society.

He was also a frequent contributor to the medical journals and to the transactions of the various societies of which he was a member. Among the more important contributions from his pen were:

"Carcinoma: a Form of Perverted Nutrition." ("Transactions of Ohio State Medical Society," 1891.)

"The Radical Cure of Hernia." ("Columbus Medical Journal," vol. vi, 1887.)

"Dietetics in Idiopathic Fevers." ("Columbus Medical Journal," vol. v, 1887.)

"Hypnotism." ("Cleveland Medical Gazette," vol. xii, 1896-7).

No portrait of Dr. Herrick, except a crayon sketch in the office of his son, and a very imperfect likeness, is known to the writer. H. E. H.

Cleveland Med. Gaz., vol. xvi. 1900-1. Mag. of Western Hist., vol. iv, (port.).

Herter, Christian (1865-1910).

Christian Archibald Herter was born in Glenville, Connecticut, September 3,

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1865, and died at his home in New York City, December 5, 1910, in the forty-sixth year of his age. His early education, partly by private teachers and at the Columbia Grammar School, was largely influenced and directed by his father, a man of wide culture and scholarly attain- ments. He graduated M. D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University) in 1885, and pursued graduate professional studies at the Johns Hopkins University, and later in Germany and France. He was visit- ing physician to the New York City Hospital from 1894 to 1904, professor of pathological chemistry at the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1898 to 1903, and since 1903 pro- fessor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a member of the Board of Refer- ees appointed by the president of the United States to act as advisers to the Department of Agriculture in the enforce- ment of the National Food and Drugs Act.

With the incorporation of the Rocke- feller Institute for Medical Research in June, 1901, Dr. Herter, who had been active and influential in the preliminary conferences, became a member of the board of directors, and served for a num- ber of years as its treasurer.

From the date of his graduation in medicine, Dr. Herter's life was one of singular devotion to the pursuit and advancement of scientific medicine — a devotion ever increasing and burning never more brightly than during the last years of a progressive and wasting ner- vous affection. To this life-work he brought the intellectual qualifications of the successful investigate: of nature, good training, industry and enthusiasm. With the scientific temperament was joined, in unusual degree, the imagina- tive and artistic, in music especially, his accomplishments being those of a virtuoso.

Opportunities for scientific research Dr. Herter created largely for himself, by constructing on the top floor of his house a well-equipped laboratory for