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NAME SEELY 1029 'SEGUIN He was very active in introducing vaccina- tion into his city and vaccinated his own son and a number of citizens, and in 1816 published a discourse on the subject. In 1810-11 he, with several other physicians, formed a new medical institution which was associated with Queen's College, New Bruns- wick, but it lived only three years. The manumission of slaves and the mental im- provement of mid wives were two other things concerning which this active enthusiast was very keen. In the wmter of 1815 he had inflammation of the lungs and developed consumption which ended his life July 3, 1817, in New York City. He married the second daughter of John Ferris of Westchester and had nine children. He wrote: "An Account of the Epidemic Yellow Fever as it Appeared in New York in 1795" (New York, 1796) ; "The Midwife's Monitor and Mother's Mirror" (New York, 1800) ; "Pharmacopeia Chirurgica in usum nosocomii Novi Eboracensis" (New York, 1811), and many other articles for the New York Medical Repository in 1798 and 1808. Biog. Lex. der Hervorragenden Aerzte, Wien., 1887. Am. Med. Biog., S. W. Williams, Deerfield, Mass., 1845. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1807. Seely, William WaUace (1838-1913) WiUiam Wallace Seely, son of John F. and Louisiana Seely, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, August 17, 1838. His ancestors were French people who settled in Stamford, Connecticut. Dr. Seely was sixth in descent, on the maternal side, from John Conant (1652-1724), a member of Captain Appleton's Company in King Philip's War. He was eighth in descent from Roger Conant (1592- 1679), Governor of the Colony at Cape Ann in 1625-26; and of the Colony at Salem in 1627-29. Dr. Seely's early education was obtained in the schools of his native place, and in Phil- lips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In 1862 he graduated at Yale College among the first in his class, then he studied medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, where he grad- uated in 1864, and after graduation going to Germany. In 1864 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical College of Ohio and in 1865 he was appointed professor of ophthal- mology and otology. He was secretary of the faculty for many years, and dean from 1881 to 1900. He was a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati from 1865 until his death, and its president in 1883 and he was a member of the Ohio State Medical Asso- ciation, of the Cincinnati Literary Club, and a member of the Society of the Colonial Wars. He was for a number of years on the staffs of the Cincinnati and Good Samar- itan hospitals and was co-editor of The Clinic for several years. Dr. Seely was associated for several years in the practice of ophthalmology and otology with Elkanah Williams (q. v.), the most prominent man of his day in those depart- ments of medicine. He was ambidextrous, using either hand as necessity required. Dr. Seely was married in 1870 to Miss Helen Simpson, of Boston, Massachusetts. Three daughters were born to them, Eliza- beth, Grace and Helen. He died November 7, 1913. A. G. Drury. Seguin, Edward Coiutent (1843-1898) Edward Constant Seguin was born in Paris in 1843, the son of Edouard Seguin (q. v.), well known for his researches on idiocy and his work in training the feeble-minded. The elder Seguin came to America in 1848; the son studied at the College of Physicians, New York, where he graduated in 1864. In 1862 he was appointed a medical cadet in the regular army and served two terms, later at Little Rock, Arkansas, and was post-sur- geon at Forts Craig and Selden, in New Mex- ico. The winter of 1869-70 was spent in Paris under the teaching of Brown-Sequard, Cornil and Charcot, which deeply interested him in diseases of the nervous system. In 1871 he became connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, as professor of diseases of the nervous system, and founded a clinic for these diseases. But while his chief work was in the direc- tion of such healing it must not be forgotten that to him in great part was due the intro- duction of medical thermometry into the United States. In a footnote to the first article in Seguin's "Opera Minora," called "The Use of the Thermometer in Clinical Medicine" {Chicago Medical Journal, May, 1886), Amidon said: "This article and the observations leading to it form the starting- point of medical thermometry in the United States." The work was done by Dr. W. H. Draper (q. v.), and Dr. Seguin, and is inter- esting as presenting probably the first tem- perature chart on record in this country. It is called "A Record of Vital Signs" and gives a chart of the pulse, respirations and tempera- ture. His papers on aphasia, infantile paraly-