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his death, and in 1885 Centre College con- ferred upon him the M. A. degree. His most noted writing was a contribution to "Surgery by American Authors, " edited by Roswell Park, upon "Diseases of the Veins."

Dr. Holloway gave his practice the closest attention and was renowned for his promptness in meeting all engage- ments; although a great sufferer from gout, rarely did it keep him from work and it was no unusual sight to see him visiting patients with his foot swathed in flannels. He was very much beloved by his clientele and generally well liked by the profession. It is claimed that Dr. Holloway was the physician who suggest- ed to the late Emil Scheffer, the pioneer manufacturer of pepsin, the substitution of the pepsin from the hog's stomach in- stead of that of the calf as an aid to di- gestion. In 1858 Holloway married Annie Warren and had five children. One of whom, Samuel Warren, also became a doctor.

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Holmes, Andrew Fernando (1797-1860). Andrew Fernando Holmes was born in Cadiz, a contingency which arose from the capture by a French frigate of the ship in which his parents were sailing for Canada. Four years later he arrived in Montreal, and at fifteen began his med- ical studies under Arnold pere. In 1819 he graduated at Edinburgh, then went to Paris for further study and returned to Canada where he was appointed physi- cian to the Montreal General Hospital in 1821, the year of its foundation. From 1S24 in the Medical Institution, and from 1829 in McGill medical faculty till his death in 1860, he was actively engaged in teaching. Dr. Holmes appears to have been a man of many accomplishments. He was professor of chemistry from 1824 till 1844; of botany during the same period; of the theory and practice of medicine from 1844 till the end. During the last eight years of his life he was dean of the Medical Faculty of McGill, and died suddenly on October 9, I860.


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Many of Dr. Holmes' writings are yet extant. Among them are his graduating thesis, " De Tetano;" papers upon " Intra- uterine Crying of the Child;" "Fleshy Tubercle of the Uterus;" "Asiatic Cholera in Montreal;" "A Case of the Employ- ment of Chloroform." (" British Medical Journal," vol. iii.)

Dr. Holmes was one of the founders of the Montreal Medical Institution, the earliest medical school in Canada, and which afterwards became McGill University. A. M.

Holmes, Edward Lorenzo (1828-1900).

Edward Lorenzo Holmes, born Jan- uary 28, 1828, at Dedham, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College at the age of twenty-one and then taught in the Latin School of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1854, later serving as interne in the Massachusetts General Hospital. After spending two years in Vienna he took up the practice of ophthalmology and otol- ogy in Chicago. He was a founder of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear In- firmary, and the head of its surgical staff until his death. He was also a founder of the Presbyterian Hospital and later one of its surgeons.

In 1860 he became lecturer on ophthal- mology and otology in Rush Medical Col- lege, and was elected to a full professor- ship in 1S67, in 1890 being elected presi- dent of the college, retaining this position until he resigned from the faculty on his seventieth birthday. He was a member of the American Ophthalmological Soci- ety for many years.

One of the pioneers of ophthalmology in the West, he exerted a powerful in- fluence there.

He died of pneumonia, February 12, 1900, in Chicago. H. F.

Trans. Am. Ophth. Soc, vol. ix.

Journal Am. Med. Assoc, 1900, vol. xxxiv.

Ophth. Record, 1898, vol. vii.

Trans. Am. Ophth. Soc, vol. ix, (port.).

Holmes, Horatio Reese (1856-1896).

Horatio Reese Holmes, a man who bade fair to be the leading pioneer gyn-