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NAME STERN 1095 STERNBERG Roux in Paris. He returned to Montreal in 1821, where he obtained the distinction of being tlie first to organize medical education in Canada. He married Isabella Torrance in 1826 and died in 1842, and was survived by a son who was at one time professor of as- tronomy in Calcutta, and a member of the English bar. The first official announcement of medical education in Canada is contained in the min- utes of the Montreal General Hospital under date August 6, 1822. The entry reads: "That Dr. Stephenson be allowed to put in advertise- ments for lectures next winter that they will be given at this hospital." Out of these lec- tures arose McGill Medical Faculty, and Stephenson was the first registrar. He was first occupant of the chairs of surgery, anat- omy, and physiology, and he occupied all three at the same time. Andrew M.^cph.-ml. Stern, Heinrich (1868-1918) HeinricH Stern was born in Frankfort. Ger- many, in 1868. Early in life he came to New York City and received his academic educa- tion in the local institutions of learning, from which he graduated with the degree of Bach- elor of Science. Medicine as a science at- tracted him and he was graduated from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1899. After a few years of general prac- tice he began to devote himself to studies of diseases of metabolism and soon became a well-known internist. As an organizer Dr. Stern showed great ability and in 1905 he planned an institution on the lines of the present Rockefeller In- stitute. It was called "An Institution for Medical Diagnosis and Research." and was situated in the City of New York. This was thoroughly organized and a hospital founded, but through lack of funds and other circum- stances it was necessary to abandon most of the project. About this 'time Doctor Stern became the permanent secretary and guiding spirit in the Manhattan Clinical Society. Two years later he founded successively the North Side Med- ical Society and the Manhattan Medical So- ciety of which the latter has been able, under his direction and guidance, to exert a pro- nounced influence on medical education. The next year he was made chairman of the sec- tion on pharmacology and therapeutics of the American Medical Association, a position which brought him much honor and prestige. Early in his career Dr. Stern won the prize offered by the New York County Medical ) Society for the study of diabetes. The scien- tific character and merit of this paper at- tracted much attention and his name has been associated with this disease ever since. In 1908, recognizing that there was not a single American journal devoted to internal medicine. Dr. Stern founded the Archives of Diagnosis, a publication which he edited up to his death. This most altruistic journal never carried any advertisements, and was consequently always run at a financial loss to its editor. Its articles, however, were al- ways by the inasters of medicine, and it has been one of the best and most ably conducted journals in this country. From the beginning of his professional life, he was a prolific contributor of articles of medical interest to the medical press in Amer- ica and Europe, such contributions reaching the number of nearly 300 articles. During this period he published at least half a dozen books on medicine, including : "A Case of Crossed Hemiplegia," 1897; "Urinalysis, a guide for the busy practitioner," 1897; "Diabetes mel- litus ; its detection and successful treatment," 1900. Dr. Stern was connected with many chari- table institutions in New York City, including Metropolitan Hospital and Dispensary, Red Cross, the Philanthropin (which he founded), St. Marks, and the German West Side Hos- pital and Dispensary. He was professor of medicine in the Ger- man West Side School of Medicine. In 1915 he received the honorary degree of LL. D. and at the time of his death was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army. He was a man of strong likes and dislikes, but ever an admirer of ability and good, con- scientious achievement. He was an inde- fatigable worker, an earnest student, a diagnostician of note, and a skilful practi- tioner of medicine. He left an indelible im- print on American medicine and Ijjs work as a physician, medical investigator, and author and editor, will live and have its influence on his profession for years to come. His death took place at his home in New York City, January 30, 1918, of cirrhosis of the liver. Amer. Medicine, Burlington, Vt., n. s., IJ. 1918. 138-140. Portrait. Sternberg, George Miller (1838-1915) George M. Sternberg, hygienist, epidemi- ologist, and surgeon-general of the United States, was the son of a Lutheran clergyman. Rev. Levi Sternberg, who was principal of