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NAME STOCKWELL 1109 STONE skill and judgment, and profound knowledge. He was the first to set the gynecological egg of Columbus on end by advocating the use of individual ligatures to the four cardinal uterine vessels in hysterectomy for fibroid tumors. This simple suggestion was the chief agent in transforming a hazardous into a comparatively safe procedure. Stimson was liked as a teacher and his personality was a great force in the commu- nity in which he lived; the development of the New York Hospital on new lines was due to his influence with the trustees. He began his active professional life by writing upon "Bacteria and Their Influence upon the Origin and Development of Septic Complica- tions of Wounds" (Wood prize essay, 1875) ; in 1893, he wrote an appreciation of "Pas- teur's Life and Work in Relation to the Ad- vancement of Medical Science." His great work was the "Treatise on Frac- tures and Dislocations," which reached its eighth edition ; it has been called a "Classic of bibliographic thoroughness and scientific critique." Henry A. Stimson, clergyman, and John W. Stimson, artist, were his brothers. His son Henry L. Stimson, was Secretary of War in President Taft's cabinet. During the European war (1914-18) Stim- son made two visits to France. While these were primarily on missions of relief for French war orphans, they included visits to the military hospitals and observations of the treatment there of compound fractures, which he incorporated in his last edition. Howard A. Kelly. Amcr. Jour. Surg., W. M. Brickner, 1917. vol. xxxi, 269. Minute adopted at meeting of the Faculty of the Cornell Univ. Med. Coll., Oct. 19, 1917. Stockwell, Cyrus M. (1823-1899) Cyrus M. Stockwell was born in Colesville, New York, June 20, 1823, and had his general education in Oxford, New York, beginning to study medicine at Binghamton, New York, and graduating M. D. at Berkshire Medical Insti- tution, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1850. After practising for a couple of years in Pennsyl- vania he settled in 1852 in Port Huron, Mich- igan. At the outbreak of the Civil War he became surgeon of the Twenty-Seventh Mich- igan Infantr}', and for a time after was assist- ant surgeon at Fort Gratiot, Michigan. In 1863 he resigned from the army and resumed civil practice. He was a founder of the Mich- igan State Medical Society and its first presi- dent, in 1866. From 1865 to 1872 he was regent of Michigan University. Like other pioneer physicians, his early life was a succession of long rides over bad roads or no roads; forty to sixty miles travel his daily task. Dr. Stockwell usually selected horses with bad tempers. One was so vicious that he had to shackle its feet when descend- ing a hill, to prevent his dashboard from being kicked to pieces. The endurance of some of these animals was remarkable. His son, Dr. C. B., relates the following : "One day father and a druggist started for Detroit at 4 a. m. They went to Detroit, transacted their busi- ness and reached Port Huron at 12 midnight, making a distance of at least one hundred and twenty miles, yet on the following day the horse was as lively as ever." In making his long rides he drove a sulky with wheels seven feet in diameter. When he came to a tree, fallen across the way, he would unhitch his horse, lead it around the tree, then drag the sulky over and re-hitch his horse and move on. Dr. Stockwell married twice and died at Port Huron, December 9, 1899, from arterio- sclerosis, leaving a widow, two daughters and one son. Dr. C. B. Stockwell, of Port Huron. Among his papers are: "Cholera" ("Trans- actions, American Medical Association," vol. iii) ; "Dysentery in Michigan" ("Transactions, -American Medical Association," vol. viii) ; "Report on Diseases in Northeastern Mich- igan" (Peninsular and Independent Medical Journal, vol. i.) Leartus. Connor. The History of Mich. Univ., Ann Arbor, 1906. Stone, Alexander Johnson (1845-1910) Ale.xander Johnson Stone, gynecologist, was born in Augusta, Maine, September 7, 1845. He received his education in the public schools, then took up the study of medicine and graduated from Berkshire Medical Insti- tution, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1867. After spending a few months abroad, chiefly in Paris, he returned to Boston, where he served as an assistant of Horatio R. Storer for about a year, during which he received special training in the then rapidly develop- ing specialty of gynecology. Coming to Min- nesota some time in 1868, he first settled in Stillwater, where he engaged in, general prac- tice. But his cherished ambition to practise his chosen specialty made him remove to St. Paul in 1870. In 1871 he founded the first medical publication in the Northwest, The Northwestern Medical and Surgical Journal, of which he was editor and proprietor, and to which he was a large contributor. After