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younger generation, with all of whom he maintained pleasant social intercourse.

His hterary work, besides many contri- butions to current medical journals was as follows: A translation of "Malgai- gne's Treatise on Fractures," 1859; "Handbook of Minor Surgery," 1S03; "Lectures on Inflammation," 1865; "Handbook of Operative Surgery," 1870; articles on "Poisoned Wounds" and on "Fractures," in "Ashhurst's International Encyclopedia of Surgery," 1883; and on "Fractures and Disloca- tions," in "Keating's Cyclopedia of the Diseases of Children," 1889. He also published three editions of the "Philadel- phia Medical Directory," in 1868, 1871 and 1873. In 1881 Dr. Packard edited the American edition of " Holmes's System of Surgery."

A handsome oil painting of Dr. Packard was presented by the Ex- residents' Association of the Pennsyl- vania Hospital to that institution, and now hangs in the hall. F. R. P.

Page, Alexander Crawford (1829-1899).

Alexander Crawford Page was born at Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1829.

As a boy he went to the schools of his native town, and when a j'oung man set out with but few dollars in his pocket to seek his fortune in the United States. The schooner which was to carry him over the Bay of Fundy and away to Boston got windbound long before reaching that destination. How- ever, he got ashore on the west side of the bay, and completed his journey to Boston on foot. Here he obtained work to sup- port himself, and at the same time studied Latin and Greek and otherwise prepared himself to enter the Medical School of Harvard University, from which he graduated M. D. in 1856.

Dr. Page was from 1888-1899 president of the Provincial Medical Board; exami- ner in obstetrics and diseases of women and children, in Dalhousie LTniversity; president of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia in 1874. Soon after graduation he returned to practise in his native town.

Of studious habits, he was well read in his profession, and alive to all its improve- ments, fertile in resources, prompt in action, and thoroughly to be depended upon. He was a good all-round prac- titioner. Obstetrics, however, was his favorite branch of practice, and he was most successful in this. Dr. Page con- tributed valuable papers of a practical kind to the Nova Scotia Medical Society and the Colchester County Medical Society, some of which have been published.

Dr. Page married a Miss Blair, of Truro, but had no children. He died in Truro in 1899. D. A. C.

Page, Benjamin (1770-1844).

One of the most remarkable pioneer physicians of Maine was Benjamin Page, born April 12, 1770, at Exeter, New Hampshire, son of the first Dr. Benjamin Page, who after his Revolutionary service practised at Hallowell, and died in 1829, aged seventy-six In Andover, young Page studied medicine first with his father, then with Dr. Thomas Kitt- redge, after being educated at Philip's Exeter Academy.

He began practice at Hallowell in 1791, but after a year or so went to Boston, was inoculated with the small-pox and he and a friend passed away the time of confine- ment practising music. He returned to Hallowell and drew up plans for building a small-pox hospital in Winthrop, Maine. This plan, however, fell through, owing to Jenner's discovery of vaccination.

His friends claimed that Dr. Page was the first American physician to vacci nate, but they forgot the prior claims of Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse. The fact remains, though, that Dr. Page vacci- nated early in Maine and devoted his time to it zealously for the rest of his life.

Previous to this, in 1790, Benjamin Page married Miss Abigail Cutler, of New- bury Port, and she was a skillful nurse to her husband in times of sickness. They were never separated for a day for over forty years.

Dr. Page was devoted to his profession