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his A. B. there in 17S9. After study- ing medicine with Dr. John Foulke he went back to England and became a house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, afterwards spending two years in Edinburgh and eventually settling down to practice in Philadelphia in 1800. Twelve years later he married Emily Banks of Washington, District of Columbia, and his son, Addinell, became one of Philadelphia's best sur- geons.

Hewson in 1822 established a pri- vate Medical School with himself as teacher of anatomy; Thomas Harris, of surgery; Meigs, of physiology and midwifery, while Franklin Bache took the materia medica and chemistry. He contributed largely also to the forma- tion and revision of the National Pharmacopoeia.

During the twelve years of his at- tendance as physician to the Walnut Street Prison, Hewson did good work in coping with typhus fever; in 1820 he helped fight the epidemic of yellow fever, and when cholera came in 1834 he was again actively helpful.

Before his death on February 17, 1848, at the ripe age of seventy-five, Hewson had held many appointments in Philadelphia. In addition to those given he was surgeon to the Philadel- phia Hospital; physician to the Penn- sylvania Hospital; censor and secre- tary to the College of Physicians, and he held the honorary M. D. from Har- vard.

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Hickey, Amanda Sanford (Is. ;s l

She was born of New England anoe try in New Bedford, August 28, 1838, and after graduating from (he Friend's Academy in Union Springs, New ifork,

in order to study medicine, she started a market garden, sold the produce and en- tered the Womans' Medical College, Philadelphia, and was eventually able to graduate in 1870, afterwards becoming interne at the New England Hospital in Boston.

Entering Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the autumn of 1870, she graduated the following spring of 1871, second in rank in a class of ninety man, the only woman and the first to graduate from Ann Arbor.

In 1872 she settled in Auburn, and her success was nothing short of phe- nomenal in gaining the confidence and respect of her colleagues.

The year 1879 was spent in study in Paris and London.

She was a member of the original staff of the Auburn City Hospital and continued an active member until her death, and a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York.

Dr. Sanford possessed unusual sur- gical skill, operating with success in the days when intra-abdominal sur- gery had poor records.

A maternity hospital in Auburn, given in her honor, bears her name.

She married Patrick Ilickey in 1884 and died October 17, 1894, from pneu- monia contracted by exposure after performing a tedious operation in an overheated room.

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Hildreth, Samuel Prescott (1783-1863),

Samuel Prescott Hildreth, one of the earliest and besl of the pioneer physi- cians of Ohio, was born in the town of Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, September 30, 1783, the son of Dr. Samuel Hildreth. His early life was passed upon a farm, but eventually he decided to study medicine, and studied under Dr. Thomas Kittredgeof Andover. In 1805 he received a diploma from the Medical Society of Massachusetts, and