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report of surgical operations performed with the aid of ether anesthesia — the "New Gas" — outside the Massachusetts General Hospital.

He was an active fellow of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society and was at one time president of Essex South District branch of the society; he was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

While retiu-ninj:; from a meetiiif;; of the American Medical Association he was killed in a railway wreck at Norwalk, Connecticut, May 6, 1853. His wife and five children survived him, the oldest son, ICdward Brooks, becoming a physi- cian in Salem.

Among his writings are to be mention- ed: "Some Account of the Measles Epi- demic in Salem in 1821." "The Boyl- ston Prize Essay on Chin-cough in 1824." "Operation for Hare-Lip," 1836, and "A Dissertation on Fractures," 1840 ("Massachusetts Medical Communica- tions, vol. xi, part iv, second series).

W. L. B.

Letters of A. L. Peirson, loaned l)y his grandson, Dr. E. L. Peirson. Obit, by James Jackson, M. D., Comm., Mass. Med. See, vol. viii.

Pendleton, Lewis Warrington (1841-

1898).

Named after Com. Warrington, of the navj', his father having been a secretary to that officer for some years; Lewis W'arrington Pendleton was born in Cam- den, Maine, March 18, 1844.

At the age of ten his parents moved to Gorham, Maine, in order that their children might have the benefit of in- struction at the local academy. When he was seventeen, j'oung Pendleton returned to Belfast and began to study with Dr. Nathan Parker Monroe.

When the war broke out, he became a hospital steward, and after his return, on account of poor health, renewed his medical studies and graduated at the Medical College of Albany, New York, in 1865. To that institution he always had great allegiance, and ten years later

delivered before its graduating class a remarkable oration on the " Loneliness of the Physician."

He practised in Belfast for fourteen years very successfully and then moved to Portland in 1880, where he at once obtained a fine clientage and much per- sonal favor, so that upon his death he was greatly mourned. At the death of William Warren Greene, he was elected a surgeon to the Maine General Hospital. In that position he did excellent and conscientious work until his resignation in 1895, owing to poor health. He was twice elected president of the Maine Medical Association, and on each occa- sion delivered an excellent address.

Beside the orations above mentioned, he read papers on "Nephrectomy" and on "Transmitted Tendencies" which were of great literary and medical value.

The death of two lovely children in early married life had apparently been compensated for by the birth of a fine boy but he also was suddenly taken away when ready for college. This was a double .shock, and although the doctor attended to his practice in Portland, and even went to the South for vacations, it was plain to his friends that the end could not be very far away.

For all that, the news of his death in Florida, January 13, 1898, from a hope- less disease with which he had been suffering for years, came with a sense of profound grief to his large body of friends.

J. A. S.

Trans. Maine .Med. Assoc.

Penrose, Richard Alexander Fullerton

(1827-1 888).

This Philadelphian obstetrician was the son of Charles Bingham and Valeria Fullerton Biddle Penrose, and was born March 24, 1827. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1846 and took his M. D. from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1849. For three years before he began to practise in Philadelphia he was re.sident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1854, partly through his