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NAME RICHARDSON 978 RICHMOND were well shown by his walking in a single day from Fitchburg to the top of Monadnock Mountain and back, nearly sixty miles ; he swam across Vineyard Sound, and also the nine miles from Salem to Magnolia. His chief relaxations were music and out- door pursuits. He took up successfully the piano, the flute, the 'cello, and the bassoon. Later years limited his playing to the piano during evening visits to the Corey Hill Hospital. He was fond of sea and woods, and in summer got never failing recreation from evenings and Sundays at Marion, spent chiefly on the water, fishing for bluefish or squeteague. Many fall vacations were spent in the Adirondacks, often with R. H. Fitz, taking long walks over mountain trails. His place at Eastham on Cape Cod had a particular charm for him. His principal occupations were walking along the ocean dunes or the bay, fishing or clamming expeditions along the shore, and searches for arrowheads in the plowed fields. The coastwise shipping, the activities of the weir fishermen, the wreckage along the beaches, or the changing picture of migrating fowls were sources of unfailing interest. He died after a heavy day's operating, in sleep, July 30, 1912. Edward Peirson Richardson Richardson, Tobias Gibson (1827-1892). Tobias Gibson Richardson, son of William A. and Symia Higgins Richardson of Louisville, Kentucky, was a student of Samuel D. Gross (q. v.), and graduated M. D. from the medical department of the University of Louisiana, 1848, where for some years he was professor of anatomy and later professor of surgery. He was also a member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and of the American Surgical Association. His chief writings appeared in the North American Medical and Chirurgical Review, the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, the "Transactions of the American Medical Association," and in those of the American Surgical Association. The chief are: "Injuries of the Knee-joint," Transylvania Journal of Medicine, vol. x, 2; "A Case in Which Death resulted from the Thompsonian Practice, with an Autopsy," Ibid.; "An Essay on Tenotomy with Illustrative Cases," Western Journal of Medicine: "Report on Statistics of Hernia, with New Operation for the Radical Cure," Scmi-Monthly News, vol. i, 1859; "Six Operations for Strangulated Hernia, Five of Which Had Favorable Issue." In 1841 he "extirpated successfully the parotid gland. He amputated both legs at the hip-joint, at one time, in the same subject and the patient recovered, growing afterwards, extremely fat." (This was years prior to the use of anesthetics or antiseptics). In 1854, while demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Louisville, Richardson published his work entitled "Elements of Human Anatomy: General, Descriptive and Practical" (1854). This was the first and only systematic treatise of the kind ever published in the valley of the Mississippi. It consisted of one volume, octavo, seven hundred and thirty-four pages and two hundred and sixty-nine illustrations, with several marked improvements in the arrangement of its subjects, and with the unique feature of "substituting English for Latin terms, wherever this appeared to be practicable and judicious." Dr. Richardson subsequently became a professor in one of the schools of Philadelphia. He did his best work, however, in New Orleans, where he occupied the chair of surgery in the Tulane University, and was visiting physician to the Charity Hospital. His first wife was Sarah E., a daughter of Dr. Charles Wilkins Short (q. v.), a prominent physician of Kentucky, after whom the Shortia was named. Mrs. Richardson, on her way up the Mississippi to join her husband, was drowned with her three children, below Vicksburg, through the destruction of the steamboat by fire. Richardson was elected president of the American Medical Association at Buffalo, in 1878. Several years after the loss of his wife he married Cora Slocum, a relative of the Brashear family of Kentucky, and after his death, in 1892, Mrs. Richardson contributed $170,000 to build a memorial addition to the Tulane University in memory of her husband, and at her death she made a further bequest of $25,000. August Schachner. Some Reminiscences in the Lives and Characters of the Old-time Physicians of Louisville by T. B. Greenley, M. D. American Practitioner and News, March 15, 1903. Trans. Kentucky State Med. Soc. 1875. Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc, Philadelphia, 1879, vol. xxix. Med. and Chir. Rev., Philadelphia, 1857-61. T. G. Richardson, in memory of, by various authors. New Orleans. Tulane Univer. 1893. New Orleans Med. and Surg. Jour., 1895-6, n. s., vol. xviii. Richmond, John Lambert (1785-1855). John Lambert Richmond, who was destined to perform the first recorded successful Cesarean section in the United States, was the