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NAME ROGERS 994 ROGERS tals, fully abreast of the most advanced ideas of hospital construction. Singularly enough they were exponents of three distinct hospital types, the pavilion, the cottage and the radiate plans respectively, and stand today as monu- ments of his ability and versatility. When he had completed his labors as med- ical engineer, he was offered the choice of the superintendency of whichever one of the hos- pitals he might prefer. He chose the hospital at Longansport, and from May, 1888, until the day of his death, continued in medical chargfe of it. Under his skilled direction the North- ern Hospital, in physical economy, humane methods and medical care, reached the highest development. It rarely falls to the lot of any one man to plan and build a hospital and afterward to direct and develop it for a period of twenty years. He never rested from his labors and was devoted to his work, body and soul. The hospital will bear the marks of his genius as builder and director in every part and department and his influence will be felt for many generations. Amid all his varied duties and lines of activity, he remained essentially a physician whose professional attainments were of the highest order and he ever kept abreast of the progress of general medicine and psychiatry. His writings include a long list of reports, state papers and monographs, all of which were carefully prepared, thoroughly treated and adequately expressed in classic English. In 1885 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Hanover College. In 1900 he was president of the American Medico-Psychological Association at the Rich- mond meeting and delivered an illuminating address on "Hospital Construction." For four years he filled the chair of inateria medica and therapeutics at the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis. In June, 1872, he married Margaret Watson of Bedford, Pennsylvania, who with three daughters and .'two sons survived him. His home life was perfect and in it as husband and parent he found the greatest happiness of his life. He died, April 11, 1908, of nephritic dis- ease after a long illness at the Northern In- diana Hospital, Logansport. Henry M. Hurd. Condensed from a sketch by Dr. E. F. Muth in Amer. Jour, of Insanity. Rogers, Lewis (1812-1875). Lewis Rogers was born in Fayette County, near Lexington, Kentucky, October 22, 1812, the son of Joseph and Anne Early Rogers. David W. Yandell (q. v.) called Lewis "the most practical of all scientific teachers, the most scientific of all practical teachers" he had known. He had his A. B. from Transylvania Uni- versity in 1831 and in that year the same de- gree from Georgetown College. His M. D. was from the University of Pennsylvasia in 1836. The Louisville Medical Institute was opened in 1836-7 and he became assistant to the chair of clinical medicine. In 1839 he mar- ried Mary Eliza Thurston and had seven children, one of whoin, Coleman, became a doctor. He was also assistant to the chair of clinical medicine in Louisville Medical Institute, 1836- 1849; professor of medicine and therapeutics, medical department of University of Louisville (former Medical Institute), 1849-1856-7; pro- fessor of theory and practice of medicine, medical department. University of Louisville, 1857-1867. During the term of 1867-68 he again occupied the chair of materia medica and therapeutics; but resigned at its close on account of an iritis that had troubled him for some time. This iritis finally necessitated iridectomy, which was performed by Dr. Agnew. His writings included : "Introductory Lecture before the Medical Class of the University of Louisville," delivered November 4, 1850, Louis- ville, 1850; "Facts and Reminiscences of the Medical History of Kentucky" (an address be- fore the Kentucky State Medical Society), Louisville, 1873 ; "Climate in Pulmonary Con- sumption, and California as a Health Resort," 16 pages, 8°, Louisville, 1874. Lewis Rogers was about six feet two inches tall, but of spare build. He was brilliant, humorous, practical and scientific; a shrug of his shoulder often expressed more than a sentence. His painstaking observation and logical reasoning qualified him for the ac- curate diagnosing for which he was noted. His final illness was a malignant disease of the liver ; first diagnosed by himself on account of certain nodules that appeared on the ribs. He died June 17, 1875. Yandell said, "He left an armor none can wear." His portrait is in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. George Gaulbert, of Louisville. Richard Ale>{ander Bate. A Discourse on the Life and Character of Dr. Lewis Rogers, by David W. Yandell, Amer- Pract., Louisville, 1875, vol. xii. Rogers, Patrick Kerr (1776-1828). Patrick Kerr Rogers, professor of natural history and chemistry at William and Mary