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NAME ROGERS 992 ROGERS The productions of his pen show admirable hterary abiHty combined with ripe scholarship. His early contributions, especially in the de- partment of the neuroses of the upper air passages, are classic. Through him and a few other members of the American Laryngological Association the vasomotor disturbances of the nasal region were carefully studied long before the subject had attracted serious attention abroad. In 1895 Dr. Roe married Miss Jane Pomeroy of Troy, Pennsylvania, who survived him. He died at his home in Rochester, New York, December 24, 1915. Trans. .mer. Laryn. Assoc. 1916, p. 289. Rogers, Arthur Curtis (1856-1917). Arthur Curtis Rogers, a pioneer and leader in work for defectives, was born near Decorah, Iowa, July 17, 1856, son of Ansel Rogers and Cynthia Benedict. He received the degree of B. S. from Earlham College, Richmond, In- diana, in 1877 (the college gave him an LL. D. in 1905). He became steward in the State School for Feebleminded, Glenwood, Iowa, and grew so interested in the work that he deter- mined to study medicine, and entered the State University of Iowa, graduating M. D. in 1883. He became head physician and principal of the State School for Indians, Forest Grove, Oregon, and two years later (1885) took up his life work as superintendent of the Minnesota School for Feeble-minded and Colony for Epi- leptics, Faribault, holding this throughout his life. Diiring his superintendency the school grew from about fifty inmates to more than 1.600, with a teaching force of some 300. He was secretary and treasurer of the Amer- ican Association for study of Feeble-Minded and of the American Association for Study of Epilepsy; he was chairman of the Commit- tee on Defectives, National Conference Chari- ties and Corrections in 1889 and in 1902, and chairman of a sub-committee on defectives of the Committee on Eugenics, American Breed- ers' Association. He was president of the Minnesota Conference Charities and Correc- tions, 1898, and of the Minnesota Academy Social Science, 1911. He was a member of the commission to revise the Minnesota laws re- lating to children. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Psycho-Asthenics. In 1882 Dr. Rogers married Phoebe Coffin, of Columbia, Ohio, the date of the marriage being the same as that of his birth, July 17. His death, due to pernicious anemia, oc- curred at the University Hospital, Minneapolis, I Minnesota, January 2, 1917. j Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1917, vol. Ixviii. p. 133. [ Who's Who in .merica, 1914-1915, vol. viii. Rogers, Henry Raymond (1822-1901). Henry Raymond Rogers, one of Dunkirk's most prominent citizens and the oldest physi- cian in Chautauqua County, New York, was born in Winslow, Maine, in 1822, and was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1851. He became distinguished for his scientific investigations, and his origi- nal views of matter and ihe laws which govern it attracted the attention of scientific men. His theory was that all physical phenomena, without exception, are transformations of electrical energy. His articles on astronomy and physics had a wide circulation both in the United Slates and Europe and provoked much discussion. He was a member of the Chautauqua Coun- ty Historical Society and the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science. For some years before his death, however, he left off practising in order to devote all his time to literary work. He wrote among other papers : "New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces," 1878; "Cholera, Its Nature and Cure," published in 1903. He died at his home in Dunkirk, New York, in 1901, after a short illness. Med. News. 1901, vol. I.xxix. Brit. Med. .Tonr.. 1901, vol. ii. Rogers, James Blythe (1802-1852). James Blythe Rogers, chemist and physician, was the eldest son of Dr. Patrick Kerr Rogers (q. v.), was born in Philadelphia, Febru- ary 11, 1802. and died there, June 15, 1852. He was educated at William and Mary CoU lege and at the University of Maryland in 1822, and soon became professor of chemistry in Washington Medical College in Baltimore, then in the Cincinnati Medical College, then in the Franklin School of Philadelphia, and in 1847-52 filled the chair of chemii5try in the University of Pennsylvania. For several years Dr. Rogers assisted in the chemical and geo- logical surveys of Virginia and Pennsylvania and he published some valuable papers in the scientific journals and, with his brother Robert, was editor of the last American reprint of Edward Turner's "Elements of Chemistry" and William Gregory's "Outlines of Organic Chemistry," in one volume (1846). S. D. Gross says of him, "he was a brilliant teacher, and decidedly the most excellent lecturer on chem- istry, I have ever listened to." A brother was Professor William B. Rogers, who assisted in founding the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nolog}', and was its first president, and other brothers were Robert E. Rogers, professor of chemistry in the Jefferson Medical Col-