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NAME SHRADY 1050 SHUMARD in home and field hospitals. He early showed his manual skill, and he won in 1858 the Wood prize for anatomical dissection. In 1860 he married Mary Lewis, of New York, who died in 1883. By her he had four children, George F., Jr., Henry Merwin, Charles Douglas, and a daughter, now Mrs. John F. Ambrose. He was married a second time to Mrs. Hester E. Cantine, a widow with one daughter, now Mrs. Edwin Gould. Dr. Shrady entered upon his editorial ca- reer soon after leaving the New York Hos- pital. He edited the American Medical Times from 1860 to 1864. In 1866 he founded The Medical Record and conducted it for thirty- nine years. During this period, as Secretary of the New York Pathological Society, he did great service in promoting wider interest in that study. He kept up his surgical work and became attending surgeon to St. Francis Hospital and Presb>'terian Hospital, at which two places he did most of his surgical work. He was a skilful, successful but very con- servative operator. His most prominent con- tributions were in the line of plastic surgery. He was one of the founders of The Prac- titioners Society and gave through his jour- nal a forum for the presentation and dis- cussion of representative physicians, surgeons and specialists of New York City. Through the success of his journal. Dr. Shrady was the means of stimulating a wider and livelier interest in all phases of medical progress, the organization of societies, the writing of medical articles, the discussion of medical policies, the promotion of public health — in fine, to do all that would naturally fall to the part of the editor of the first well-organ- ized and successful weekly medical journal in America. Dr. Shrady always worked for high ideals and never advocated any but good causes and ennobling policies. Dr. Shrady had many interests outside those of his profession. He was a clever draughtsman and would have made a success- ful caricaturist. He was a man of fine sense of humor, kindly to all, companionable, a good story teller, with a wonderful gift of mimicry. Sometimes his journalistic work made him enemies, but his personality won him friends. He had a taste for literature and art, and he was one of the founders of The Charaka Club, an organization devoted to the study of historical medicine. In 1869 Yale College gave him a degree of A. M. In middle and later life Dr. Shrady became associated as consultant with many institu- tions. He became nationally prominent in connection with the last illness of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, to whom he was one of the attending surgeons. He contributed many important articles on surgery and general medical subjects, of which the following is a partial list : "Ligation of the Lingual Artery near Its Origin, as a Preliminary Procedure in the Extirpation of Cancer in Diseases of the Tongue," 1878; "A New Subcutaneous Saw, Knife and Bone Rasp," 1879; "The Curved Flap in Plastic Operations on the Face," 1879; "Reproduction of the Shaft of the Humerus, after E.xcision for Acute Necrosis," 1880; "Intraparietal Hernia," 1881 ; "Surgical and Pathological Reflections on Pres. Garfield's Wound," 1881 ; "Removal of a Large Naso- pharyngeal Tumor, with Extensive Attach- ments to Base of Skull; an Expected Brain Complication; Death," 1882; "Successful Tracheotomy for Diphtheritic Croup in a Child Eleven Months Old," 1882; "Case of Strangulated Hernia with Remarks on Treat- ment," 1884; "The Surgical and Pathological Aspects of Gen. Grant's Case," 1895 ; "The Curability of Cancer by Operation," 1887; "Some Observations on Cancer of the Breast," 1892 ; "Operative Relief for Deformity after Pott's Fracture," 1893; "A Simple Method of Closing Large Operation Wounds by Sliding Skinflaps," 1893 ; "Dr. J. Marion Sims, Surgeon and Philanthropist," 1894; "Shock in Modern Surgery," 1889; "Early Diagnosis of Mammary Tumors," 1901 ; "Hip and Thigh Amputation for Sarcoma of the Femur," 1904. He died from sepsis after a short illness on November 30, 1907, at his residence, 512 Fifth Avenue, New York. Charles L. Dana. Shumard, Benjamin Franklin (1820-1869) Benjamin Franklin Shumard was born in 1820 and graduated in 1841, and shortly after he received his degree began practise in the country at some distance from Louisville. The frequent and prolonged excursions which this enthusiast made around Louisville and into the interior of Kentucky soon re- sulted in a large and interesting collection of prehistoric remains, which in due time were systematically arranged and described; and as not a few of these specimens were ' unknown, his fellow-naturalists, as a just tribute to his labors and researches, bestowed upon them the name of their discoverer, a practice usual with scientists. Dr. David Dale Owen (q. v.) engaged in the geological survey of the Northwest-