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ing an error of the great Liston before an operation on a man for supposed hard tumor. In London, he was called in consultation by Mr. Lawrence of St. Bartholomew's regarding a case of tibia fractured near the malleolus. He recom- mended sawing ofl" the projecting end of bone to ensure reduction; thus introduc- ing at St. Bartholomew's a procedure common in New York.

When cholera broke out in New York in June, 1832, carrying off 2996 in two months, Dr. Stevens and his colleagues did gallant work. In 1815 after years of strenuous work he retired to his country home on Long Island and went in largely for agriculture. He married twice after the death of his first wife, a Miss Morris of Morrisiana and afterwards to a lady of Long Island. His own death occurred 1869. A firm believer in the great truths of Christianity he said to his daughter a few days before he died, "I have spent this whole morning in scientific reading, but I come back to my Bible. It con- tains all I need; there is no book like it."

The Stevens Triennial Prize ($1000) for the best essay on a medical or surgical subject was one of his kindly last acts.

He held many other appointments and memberships: fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons; surgeon. New York Hospital; president. College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons; president, Ameri- can Medical Association ; honorary LL. D. of Columbia College, New York City; president and co-founder of New York Academy of Medicine.

He was co-editor of the " Medical and Surgical Register," New York, and the "New York Medical and Physical Journal."

D. W.

Med. Record, May, 1869-70, vol. iv.

Med. Reg. of N. York City, 1869, vol. vii,

Same biog.

Med. and Surg. Reporter, Pbila., 1865, vol.

xiii (S. W. Francis). Discourse Commemorative of, J. G. Adams, N. York, 1871.

A portrait by Henry Inman is in the Gallery of the New York Hospital. Memoir by Dr. G. Adams, Tr. : Med. See. St. of. N. York, 1874.

Stevens, Edward B. (1823-1896).

Edward B. Stevens was born in Leba- non, Ohio, in 1823. He received his literary education at the Miami Univer- sity, Oxford, Ohio, and graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, in 1846, first settling in Monroe, Ohio, but after a few years he went to Cincinnati, where with George Mendenhall and John A. Murphy he founded the "Medical Observer" in 1856. He was managing editor and con- tinued as such after the consolidation of the journal with the "Western Lancet." In 1860 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical College of Ohio, but resigned at the end of the term, in 1865 accepting the chair of materia medica in the Miami Medical College, which he held until he was offered the same chair in the large medical school, created by the merging of the Geneva Medical College into the College of Medi- cine of Syracuse University, when he resigned his position in the Miami College, sold the "Lancet and Observer," and left for Syracuse. The new position did not come up to his expectations, so after a few months he returned to Lebanon, his native town, where he became well- known as a gynecologist and obstetrician. In 1878 he started the "Obstetric Gazette," in the columns of which he did his best work as medical editor. On account of poor health he was unable to attend to his professional duties for several years before his death in 1896.

Taken from "Daniel Drake and His Fol- lowers," Otto Juettner.

Stevenson, Henry (1721-1814).

He was born at Londonderry, Ireland, in the year 1721, and educated at Oxford, England. With his brother, John, also a i^hysician, he emigrated to Baltimore about the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury. According to George W. Archer, he and Dr. Alexander Stenhouse settled in the sixth decade of the century in Bush River Neck, Baltimore County, and there married sisters. In 1756 he erected a stone mansion, which he called "Parnassus," but which his neighbors