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and instrumental in the building of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital and the "Washburn Memorial Hospital, was the son of Col. Henry Sargent, and born in Leicester, Massachusetts, December 15, 1815.

After graduating from Harvard College in 1S34 he studied medicine one year with Dr. Edward Flint, of Leicester, and three years at a private school in Boston, of which Dr. James Jackson was the head, also attending lectures at the medical schools of Harvard University and of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. After receiving his M. D. from Harvard in 1837, he spent one year as house doctor in the Massachusetts General Hospital, two years in study in Paris, and in 1840 opened an office in Worcester, but in 1850 spent another year in Europe, and again in 18G8.

For forty-eight years Dr. Sargent was a leader in the medical profession, holding in turn all the offices in the district Society. He was councillor in the State society for a long time, and in 1874-76 vice-president. He was one of the original members of the Boston Society for Medical Observation. To his ex- ertions also is largely due the present prosperity of the City Hospital, of which he was trustee from 1871 to 1886, serving at the same time as a member of the consulting staff.

He married Emily Whitney, September 27, 1841.

Dr. Sargent brought to Worcester a store of knowledge and skill, which made him pre-eminently the most conspicuous member of the medical profession in Central Massachusetts. He died in Worcester, October 13, 1888.

L. F. W.

Satterlee, Richard Sherwood (1798-1880). Richard Sherwood Satterlee, surgeon. United State Army, son of Maj. William Satterlee, was born December 6, 1798, at Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York. After graduating in medicine Satterlee began to practise in Seneca County, New York, but soon went West and settled at

Detroit. In 1822 he was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army. He served during the Seminole war in Florida and rendered notable services during the Mexican one, being present in the battles of Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco, Molino del Rey and Chapul- tepec. In 1853 he was appointed med- ical purveyor, which office he held until the close of the Civil War. In 1866 he was made brevet brigadier-general as a reward for faithful and meritorious services. Under Pres. Johnson he retired from active service, and his death took place in New York November 10, 1880. He married in Jime, 1827, Mary S. Hunt, of Detroit, Michigan.

A. A.

Stxjne, Biogr. Em. Am. Phys. and Surg.

Indianapolis, 1898.

Port, in Sur.-gen. Collection, Wash., D. C.

Sarrazin Michel S. (1659-1736).

Michel S. Sarrazin, physician and naturalist, was born in 1659, and came to Canada in 1685. Becoming noted both as a doctor and a scientist, he had the honor of being elected member of the French Academy. Moreover, several years after his arrival in Canada he was appointed King's physician for the country, the only bearer of that title in all New France. His salary was a bare 600 livres, without recompence from his patients. Sarrazin was also a member of the Supreme Council of Quebec.

About 1712 he married Marie Anne, the daughter of Francois Hazeur, fils, and had seven children. He died in Quebec, September, 1734 and his widow received a pension from the King; his sons, who were regarded as proteges of the State, were then studying medicine in Paris.

There seems to be some confusion among the botanists as to which Sarrazin the plant Sarracenia was named for. It was first named and described by J. B. Tournefort in " Institutiones rei her- barijB, " second edition, Paris, 1700, thus: "Sarracena Canadensis foliis ca%'is et auritis. Saracenam appelavi a Claris- simo D. Sarrazin, Medicinse Doctore,