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 HERTER

HEWSON

experimental, pathological, bacteriolog- ical and chemical investigations, and by securing the services and co-operation of able assistants and collaborators. From this private laboratory have issued dur- ing the last fifteen year numerous and valuable contributions.

Dr. Herter was a prolific contributor to medical science, his published articles and books numbering not less than seventy, and covering a wide range of activity. His earliest scientific interest related to diseases of the nervous system, his first publications in this field appear- ing in 1888, followed in 1889 by his valuable study of experimental myelitis, and later by several articles of patholog- ical and clinical interest, and by the publication in 1892 of the first edition of his text-book on "The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System." After this period his work lay more and more in the domains of experimental pathologv, and especially of pathological chemistry, being concerned with problems of meta- bolism, of the formation of gall-stones, of glycosuria, of anemia and toxemia and of infantilism ; and in the later years par- ticularly with the study of the intestinal bacterial flora and intestinal putrefac- tion. His lectures on "Chemical Pathol- ogy in its Relation to Practical Medicine," published in 1902, met a most favorable reception. He approached pathological problems with broad biological, and even philosophical interest.

Dr. Herter's services to American medicine are not to be measured solely by his published contributions, valuable as I hese are. The example and influence of his personality and of the ideals which he represented made strongly for higher professional standards and for tin widi r recognition and cultivation of medical science. The lectureships which Dr. Herter, in association with Mrs. Berter, established upon wise and generous foundations at the Johns Hopkins Medi- cal School and the University of Belle ue Hospital Medical College serve a most useful purpose in the promotion of scien- tific medicine

It was mainly through Dr. Herter's instrumentality and generous support that the "Journal of Biological Chemis- try" was established in 1905, and he was also active in the organization, in 1908, of the American Society of Biological Chemists. Biological chemistry in this country owes a large debt to him.

His services were of great help in the planning and development of the Rocke- feller Institute. After the opening last September of the hospital of the Institute, to which he had been appointed physi- cian, and which owes much in its concep- tion and general character as a research hospital to the time and thought devoted to it by him, Dr. Herter began to make use of the opportunities there offered, which seemed to be the fulfilment of his dreams for study of the problems of disease as presented by the living patient. The zeal and ardor with which he entered upon this work seemed to his colleagues wonderful, and indeed heroic, in view of the increasing and distressing physical infirmities of the last weeks of his life. W. H. W

Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., May, 1911. Science, June, 1911. (Graham Lusk.)

Hewson, Addinell (1S20-1889).

A great many medical men get their names associated with methods and cures they have advocated and Addi- nell Hewson, in addition to his pre- dilection for therapeutic electricity, "took up the earth treatment for wounds, contusions, inflammations, tumors and surgical dressings" so that his name became connected with his "earth treatment" about 1853, some twenty-five years after his birth on November 22, as the eighth son of Prof. Thomas T. Hewson of Philadelphia.

The grammar school of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania received him boy and from the university he gradu- ated in Arts in 1848, taking his M. D. from Jefferson Medical College in Is.'iO.

As surgeon on a sailing vessel he went to Ireland and became a student under Sir William Wilde al St. Mark's