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NAME STEVENS 1099 STEVENS the practice of bedside instruction. The year 1831 saw him again in London and Edinburgh, correcting an error of the great Liston pre- vious to an operation on a man for supposed solid tumor of the upper thigh, that was in reality an abscess. In London he was called in consultation by Mr. Lawrence of St. Bartholomew's regarding a case of a tibia fractured near the malleolus. He recom- mended sawing off the projecting end of bone to ensure reduction, thus introducing at St. Bartholomew's a procedure common at the New York Hospital. Dr. Stevens became pro- fessor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1825. When cholera broke out in June, 1832, carrying ofif 2,996 in two months. Dr. Stevens and his colleagues did gallant work. In 1851, after years of strenuous labor, he retired to his country home on Long Island and devoted himself largely to agriculture. After the death of his first wife he was married twice, first to a Miss Morris of Morrisiana and afterwards to a lady of Long Island. His own death occurred March 30, 1869. A firm believer in the great truths of Christianity, he said to his daughter a few days before he died : "I have spent this whole morning in scientific reading, but I come back to my Bible. It con- tains all I need; there is no book like it." His last public act in 1865, was the founding of the Stevens Triennial Prize ($1,000) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the in- come to be awarded for the best essay on a medical or surgical subject. He held many appointments and honors : professor of the principles and practice of surgery, Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons; president, American Medical Association ; honorary LL. D., Regents of the University of New York State, 1849; twice president and a co- founder of the New York Academy of Medi- cine. As a lecturer he dealt in quaint illustrations. He wrote many medical papers, edited two New York medical journals, issued an edi- tion of Sir Astley Cooper's "First Lines of Surgery." 1822; "Lectures on Lithotomy," 1838, and a "Plea of Humanity in Behalf of Medical Education," and an address before the Medical Society of the State of New York in 1849. Memoir by Dr. John G. Adams, Tr. Med. See, State of New York., 1S74, 288-300. New York Med. Record, 1869-1870, vol. iv., 117- 118. Med. and .Surg. Reporter, Phila.. 1865, vol. xiii S. W. Francis. A Portrait by Henry Inman is in the Gallery ot the New York Hospital. Cyclop. Amer. Biog., Appleton, N. Y., 1887. Stevens, Edward Bruce (1823-1896) Edward B. Stevens was born in Lebanon, Ohio, in 1823. He received his literary edu- cation at the Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, in 1846, first settling in Monroe, Ohio, but after a few years he went to Cincinnati, where with George Mendenhall and John A. Murphy he founded the Medical Observer in 1856. He was managing editor and continued as such after the consolidation of the journal with the Western Lancet. In 1860 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical Col- lege of Ohio, but resigned at the end of the term, in 1865 accepting the chair of materia medica in the Miami Medical College, which he held until he was offered the same chair in the large medical school, created by the merging of the Geneva Medical College into the College of Medicine of Syracuse Uni- versity, when he resigned his position in the Miami College, sold the Lancet and Obseri'cr, and left for Syracuse. The new position did not come up to his expectations, so after a few months he returned to Lebanon, his native town, where he became well known as a gynecologist and obstetrician. In 1878 he started the Obstetric Gazette, in the columns of which he did his best work as medical editor. He was secretary of the Ohio State Medical Society from 1862 to 1867 and its president in 1868. On account of poor health he was unable to attend to his professional duties for several years before his death, which occurred at Lebanon, July 11, 1896. Daniel Drake and His Followers, Otto Tuettner, 1909. Trans. Ohio St. Med. Soc, 1897, 430. Stevens, Thaddeus Morrell (1829-1885) Thaddeus M. Stevens of Indianapolis, largely instrumental in the establishment of the state board of health, was a nephew of the political leader for whom he was named, and the son of a jurist of Indianapolis, where Thaddeus was born and died. His dates were August 29, 1829, and November 8, 1885. After graduating from private schools in his native city, he studied medicine under Dr. J. S. Bobbs (q. v.), and graduated from the Indiana Medical College in 1853, having spent some time in study at the JefTerson Medical College. At first he settled in prac- tice at Fairland, Indiana, but soon removed to his native city. In 1870 he became professor of toxicology, medical jurisprudence and chemistry in his alma mater and in 1874 occu- pied the same chair in the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons. He had a taste rather