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was concerned. On the opening of the school in November, 1813, he became the professor of materia medica and kept the position until 1829, when he was transferred to the chair of the theory and practice of medicine. This pro- fessorship he filled until 1852, when he took the chair of materia medica again, retaining it imtil his death nine years later, but being for the last eight years professor emeritus. He is described by Dr. Henry Bronson, who was once his private pupil, as "tall and spare, of a weak organization, with a pleasant countenance and mild blue eye, uncere- monious and unpretending, familiar and agreeable in manners and plain in dress." He was not an eloquent instructor, but gave a good practical course. In his knowledge of botany he was ahead of his time, and, at the opening of the medical school, estabhshed, on grounds adjoining the college, a botanical garden for the benefit of his classes, which was not properly seconded as an enterprise and so perished from neglect. He gave special attention to indigenous vegetable remedies in his extensive practice, and is said to have been one of the first to employ chloroform, having prescribed it

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by inhalation as well as by stomach, in 1832, a year after its discovery by Samuel Guthrie, of Sackett's Harbor.

He was a member of the first conven- tion which framed the United States Pharmacopoeia in 1820, and, at the second convention in 1830, was made the president. For three years, from 1824— 1827, he was vice president of the Con- necticut Medical Society. When the American Medical Association met in New Haven in 1860, he was chosen its president. He served, also, as the candidate for lieutenant-governor on the anti-Masonic ticket in 1831, and acted for many years as the president of the Horticultural and Pomotogical Societies. He married on September 17, 1805, Maria Beers and had three sons, who took up the study of medicine, and one daughter who married a physician. He died on October. 8, 1861. A portrait of him is preserved in the family. It was repro- duced for his memoir in the " Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society for 1867." W. R. S.

Proceedings Connecticut Medical Society,

1864-1867.

Bacon's "Some Account of the Medical

Profession in New Haven."