Page:American Medical Biographies - Kelly, Burrage.djvu/1083

NAME SLAYTER 1061 SMALL He married Mina Louise Hensler, daughter of Conrad and Lisette Hensler, in 1856, and they lived most happily together for forty years, his wife bearing him four sons and seven daughters, all athletic, well set-up chil- dren, the handsome daughters being accom- plished horsewomen. She, a small woman of great grace and charm of manner, was the life of the Chestnut Hill neighborhood where they lived, surrounded by his college class- mates and many friends. During the Civil War Dr. Slade was spe- cial inspector of general hospitals under the Sanitary Commission, and after the conflict retired from active practice and devoted him- self to horticulture. On the establishment of the Bussey Institution at Jamaica Plain in 1871. he was appointed professor of applied; zoology and held the office for eleven years. In 1885 he became lecturer on comparative osteology at the Museum of Comparative Zool- ogy at Cambridge. There he worked and lectured on osteology to the students of Har- vard College until his death. A large num- ber of papers on osteological topics came from his pen in these years, published for the most part in Science. He wrote too on colo- nial history and antiquarian topics for the magazines, and he made many addresses. Alto- gether the bibliography of his writings con- tains sixty-eight titles. As a lecturer Dr. Slade was popular, owing to his charm of speech and manner and his ability of stimu- lating original observation on the part of his students. He insisted always on the neces- sity of looking to nature for true informa- tion, and his students in osteology learned the science from the bones themselves and not from books. Daniel Denison Slade, C. R. Eastman, M. D., Boston, 1897. Eept. fr. New Eng. Hist. Genealog. Register, 1897, vol. li, Bibliography. Slayter, WiUiam B. (1841-1898) William B. Slayter was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1841, and died there in 1898. He practised for a few years in Chicago, and subsequently in Halifax for upwards of thirty years, then having taken his Arts' course at Trinity College, Toronto, he took his professional training there, and continued his medical and surgical studies in Chicago, London and Dublin. His degrees were: M. D., Chicago; M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P., London ; F. O. S., Dublin. He was also a member of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, and president of that Society in 1878. For many years previous to his death he was professor of obstetrics in the Halifax Medical College, and surgeon at the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax. After completing his medical course at London, Dr. Slayter served a term as house surgeon at the Westminster Hospital and subsequently was assistant to Forbes Winslow, the eminent English alienist. He began prac- tice in Chicago and became assistant to Dr. Brainard (q. v. J on the surgical staff of Rush Medical College, and acquired a good practice. On the death of his brother, the heroic Dr. John Slayter, in 1866, he removed to Halifax, and became one of the leading practitioners. His kindly and genial manner and generous disposition gained for him a host of friends, and his musical talents, which were of a high order, won hinr a still larger circle of admirers. He married a Miss Clarke, of Chicago, and had a large family. Two of his sons entered the profession— Dr. John Slayter, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and Dr. Howard Slayter. Donald A. Campbell. Small, Horatio Nelson (1839-1886) He was eldest of the three sons of Richard and Abigail Jose Small, of Buxton, Maine, and was born there November 10, 1839, receiv- ing his early education in Guildhall, Ver- mont, whither his parents had removed dur- ing his childhood, and ultimately graduat- ing at the Dartmouth Medical School in 1863. He immediately joined the army as assistant surgeon of the Seventeenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. In August, 1863, he was made a full surgeon of the Tenth Regi- ment New Hampshire Volunteers, serving as brigade-surgeon in the Ninth, Eighteenth and Twenty-Fourth Army Corps and received an honorable discharge at the end of the war as a soldier and officer. Directly after the war Dr. Small came to Portland, associated himself with Dr. William Chaffee Robinson (q. v.). took up the latter's practice during his last illness and at his death had all that he could possibly attend to as physician and obstetrician. He was chosen visiting physician to the Maine General Hospital, lecturer on obstetrics at the Portland School for Medical Instruc- tion, surgeon on the governor's staff in 1879. Although his contributions to medical litera- ture were not many, he read before the Maine Medical Association one or two memorahip papers, one of which was on "Nasal C another on "Extra-uterine Pregnancy" Medical Association, 1893). He was diagnosing and accurate and extraor