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SHAW the Ward School and the high school of Pittsburgh.

He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1879 and returning to Pittsburg was associated with his father and devoted himself to general practice for several years, gradually, however, restricting himself to the treatment of diseases of children. In 1894 he was elected to the chair of diseases of children in the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, in Pittsburg, a position he held until his death. His wide knowledge coupled with his scholarly attainments, exceptional for his age, at once attracted the students and made his lectures a marked feature in the college course.

He was a member of the county, state and national medical societies. At the time of his death he was the unanimous choice for the presidency of the Allegheny County Medical Society.

Shaw was a man of high ideals, and stood for all that is best and highest in the medical profession. With a view to do battle in its cause and to stimulate the observance of the Code of Ethics, the more especially as to its bearings on nostrums and nostrum advertising in the medical press, he, with some half dozen others of the younger physicians of Pittsburg, organized in December, 1885, The Pittsburg Medical Review, a monthly periodical owned and controlled entirely by the editors. Dr. Shaw was recognized as editor-in-chief of this publication and under his vigorous efforts, directed especially at the Journal of the American Medical Association, the board of trustees of that journal gradually eliminated the more obnoxious advertisements, until its pages were practically free from all advertisements which the code of ethics forbids.

Dr. Shaw was not married and died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of pulmonary tuberculosis, December 28, 1899.

His contributions to medical literature partook largely of the nature of editorials together with papers on general medicine and pediatrics.

His portrait is in the hall of the Assembly Room of the Pittsburg Free Dispensary.

Shaw, John (1778-1809)

John Shaw was born at Annapolis, Maryland, May 4, 1778, and entered St. John's College on its opening in 1789 and took his A. B. there in 1796. He began the study of medicine under Dr. John Thomas Shaaff, of Annapolis. In 1798, while attending his first course of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, he received an appointment as surgeon in the United States Navy, and sailed to Algiers. He spent about a year and a half in North Africa, holding a position which was partly medical and partly consular. While there he learned to speak Arabic, and became physician to the Bey of Tunis, Secretary of Legation and Chargé d'Affaires. He returned home in the spring of 1800, but in July, 1801, left America for medical studies in Edinburgh. But early in 1803, before he had obtained his medical degree there, he was induced to go to Canada by the Earl of Selkirk, who had founded a colony. He remained in the Earl's service until 1805, when he returned to Annapolis to practise. In February, 1807, he married and removed to Baltimore, where he joined with Davidge and Cocke in founding the College of Medicine of Maryland (University of Maryland), in which he held the chair of chemistry. He was treasurer of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland from 1807 to his death, which occurred at sea, January 10, 1809, at the age of thirty, from consumption. Dr. Shaw published a number of poems, and left a manuscript of his travels and life in Africa. The former were collected and republished in a volume in 1810, preceded by a biographical memoir. ("Poems by John Shaw," Philadelphia, 1810.) His prose style is sprightly and entertaining, his poetry is chiefly sentimental and patriotic and is sweet and graceful.

Shaw, John Cargyll (1845-1900)

John Cargyll Shaw, a New York alienist, was born September 25, 1845, at St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, and died in Brooklyn, New York, January 23, 1900. His parents were John and Christiana Drew Shaw. After education in the local schools he came to the United States with his mother and sister when seventeen. After serving with a wholesale druggist in New York, and attending lectures on chemistry, he studied medicine under Dr. George K. Smith, and in 1874 took his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He took great interest in studying the histology and pathology of the nervous system in the laboratory of Dr. Satterthwaite and Professor Seguin (q. v.), and became clinical assistant to the latter at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He was appointed neurologist at St. Peter's Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, and filled the