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Woodstock, Vermont, and Icctnrcd there for eleven years. He held the same chair at Berkshire Medical ColleEce, Massachusetts, 1853-54, at Starling Med- ical College, Columbus, Ohio, 185-^1-55 and at the Buffalo Medical College, 1858-83. Dr. Moore was distinguished for research and experiments on the heart's action, undertaken in Philadelphia about 1838, \Yith Dr. Pollock, continuing the experi- ments begun by Dr. Hope, and investi- gated the following year by a committee of the London Medical Society. In his articles on medical and surgical topics he suggested many original methods of treat- ment. In one of these he controverted the asservations of the physiologists as to the rationale of the production of the vow^el sounds. He was the author of monographs on fractures and dislocations of the clavicle; on fractures of the radius, accompanied with dislocation of the ulna; on fractures, during adolescence, at the upper end of the humerus ; and a treatise on transfusion of the blood based on original investigations. Among his ap- pointments, he was president of the New York State Medical Society, one of the founders of the American Surgical Asso- ciation, succeeded Dr. Gross as its presi- dent in 1 888. In 1 889-90 he helped frame the constitution and was president of the State Board of Health of New York. For nearly fifty years he was at the head of St. Mary's Hospital staff. Dr. Moore married at Windsor, Vermont, November 11, 1847, Lucy R., daughter of Samuel Prescott, of Montreal, Canada, and died in Rochester, New York, March 4, 1902. His writings included: "Treatment of the Clavicle when Fractured or Dislo- cated," 1870. "A Luxation of the Ulna not Hitherto Described, with a Plan of Reduction, etc.," 1872. "Gangrene and Gangrenous Diseases," 1882; and with C. W. Pennock, " Reports of Experiments on the Action of the Heart," 1839.

C. G. S.

Boston M. and Surg. J., 1902, vol. cxlvi.

Buffalo M. J., 1901-2, n. s., xli.

J. Am. Med. Ass., Chicago, 1902, vol. xxxviii.

Tr. Med. Soc. N. Y., Albany, 1903 (W. S.

Ely).

Moore, John (182G-1907).

John Moore, surgeon-general of the United States Army, was born in Bloom- ington, Indiana, in 1826, and received his collegiate education at the Indiana State University. In 1848-49 he attended lec- tures at the Medical School of Louisville, and graduated from the medical depart- ment of New York University in 1850, in 1853 being commissioned assistant army surgeon and promoted to captain in 1858. Upon promotion to major, in 1862, he was detailed as medical director of the Central Grand Division of the Army of the Poto- mac; in the following year he was trans- ferred to the Department of the Tennes- see, and in 1864 received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel for gallant and meri- torious service during the Atlantic Cam- paign. In 1865 he was appointed colonel and medical director of Volunteers, re- ceiving during this service the brevet of colonel "for faithful and meritorious ser- vice during the war." After serving at various posts he was appointed surgeon- general of the army in 1886, by Pres. Cleveland.

Under the administration of Gen. Moore great advances in army medical work were accomplislied. Instruction in first aid was inaugurated in the service by direction of general order No. 86, from the headquarters of the army, November 20, 1886. In 1887, the act organizing a Hospital Corps in the United States Army became a law. The third medical volume of the medical and surgical history of tlie rebellion appeared during his administra- tion, under the editorship of Maj. Smart. He retired in 1890, and continued to live in Washington up to the time of his death in 1907.

C. A. P.

J. Ass. Mil. Surg. U. S., Carlisle, 1904, xv.

Moore, Samuel Preston (1813-1889).

Samuel P. Moore, surgeon. United States Army, surgeon-general, Con- federate States Army, was the son of Stephen West and Eleanor Screven Gil- bert Moore, and lineal descendant of Dr. Mordicai Moore who accompanied Lord