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ROBERTS native State until 1829, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and, until 1860, had a large practice. At this time he retired from active practice.

In May, 1835, when the medical department of Cincinnati College was founded, he was made professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children. In 1849 Dr. Rives was elected professor of materia medica in the Medical College of Ohio, and in 1850 was transferred to the chair of obstetrics. In 1854 he resigned the professorship. In this year he edited John Lizar's "Anatomy of the Brain."

During the last ten years of his life he rested from active professional work. He was never married. He died in Cincinnati, June 3, 1870.

A. G. D.

Trans. Ohio State Med. Soc.,. 1870. E. B. Stevent)

Roberts, William Currie (1810-1873).

William Currie Roberts was born in London, England, in 1810. When about ten years old he was brought to this country, where liberal and democratic ideas were so readily engrafted upon his nature that but few knew lie was of foreign birth. He did not have the advantage of a collegiate education, but great attention was given to his mental training and in 1828 he began to study medicine with the distinguished surgeon, Valentine Mott. During the years 1828, 1829, 1830, he attended medical lectures at the Geneva Medical College, Medical Department of Rutgers University; during the winter of 1830-31 at Philadelphia, and graduated at the college of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1832. The same year he married Matilda, daughter of Martin Hoffman, of New York, who died after seven years, leaving him two sons and a daughter, but the latter died at the age of eleven.

In 1835, in conjunction with several of his medical friends, he founded the New York Infirmary for the Diseases of Women and Children, doubtless the first special institute of its character established in New York; but, after a brief though useful existence, its doors were finally closed on account of lack of funds. In 1839 he served as physician at West Point: in 1844 physician to the Northern Dispensary, having charge of the department of "Diseases of Women and Children and Nervous Disorders." In 1841, for about a year, he edited the "New York Medical Gazette," and in this are to be found two of his papers: "Contributions to the Literary History and Pathology of Cholera Infantum" and "Thymic Enlargement." In 1846 he started the "Annalist," a journal which he continued to edit until 1848. His other literary efforts were the editing of four or five numbers of "Wood's Addenda to the Medico-Chirurgical Review," between July, 1847, and April. 1849, and, in 1834, in connection with Dr. James B. Kissam, he translated Bourgery's "Minor Surgery." In 1835 he translated the work of the Chev. J. Sarlandiere, ex-surgeon French Army and of the Military Hospital of Paris, which is entitled, "Systematized Anatomy: or Human Organography, in Synoptical Tables, with Numerous Plates for the Use of Universities, Faculties, and Schools of Medicine and Surgery, Academies of Painting, Sculpture and of the Royal Colleges. " This is a large folio volume, beautifully illustrated with fifteen folio plates. Dr. Roberts' first monograph, a popular essay on " Vacci- nation," appeared in 1835, signed, "A physician.

Rolierts died in December, 1873, having suffered for about a year from an organic affection of the heart.

Medical Register N. Y. N.J., and Conn., 1874, xii.

Memoir of William C Pioheris, 1S71 (G. .M . Smith).

Robertson, Dr. Andrew ( 1716-1795).

This army surgeon was born in Scotland in 1716, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh, entering the British Army as a surgeon and serving three years in Flanders, and being present at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745.