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NAME STONE 1112 STORER Hat for ten years, his articles appearing chiefly in that and the New Orleans Monthly Medical Register. They included: "Ligature of the Femoral Artery," "Ligature of the Carotid Artery," "Operation and Removal of One-half of the Inferior Maxilla," "Comminuted Frac- ture of the Thigh." He had a most wonder- ful memory and never used any notes in his didactic lectures or forgot any fact he read. He remembered patients who had been to him years before. He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1872, of diabetes mellitus fol- lowed by gangrene. Eminent Phys, and Surgs. of U. S.. R. F. Stone, Indian., 1894. Trans. .mer. Med. .^ssoc. 1873, vol. xxiv, 341- 344. Stone, Warren (1843-1883) Warren Stone, surgeon, was born in Xew Orleans, Louisiana, in 1843, and was not only known as his father's son but also for his own good work. Educated at the Jesuit Col- lege, New Orleans, he afterwards served dur- ing the war in the Confederate Army and when he went home settled down to study medicine, graduating at the University of Louisiana in 1867 and getting the appoint- ment of professor of surgical anatomy when the Charity Hospital Medical College was opened in 1874. Just a year before he made what he thought to be the first recorded cure of traumatic aneurysm of the subclavian artery by digital pressure. Like his father, he gave great attention to the subject of yel- low fever. When it was epidemic in Bruns- wick, Georgia, and the Southwest, he trav- elled about from one village to another heal- ing and comforting the sick. He did not long survive the death of his father, dying on January 3, 1883, in New Orleans of Bright's disease, his death a distinct loss to the city for he was justly regarded as one of her most accomplished and promising sur- geons. Eminent Phys. and Surgs. of U. S., R. F. Stone, Indianapolis, 1S94. Storer, David Humphreys (1804-1891) David Humphreys Storer, obstetrician and naturalist, was born in Portland, Maine, March 26, 1804, the son of Woodbury Storer, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Portland. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1822 and received the degree of M. D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1825. After an apprenticeship as house stu- dent in the office of Dr. John C. Warren Cq. v.), he soon obtained an excellent practice, paying especial attention to obstetrics, and gradually rose to be one of the most highly respected physicians of Boston. At an early time he took great interest in teaching and in 1837 with the cooperation of Drs. Edward Rey- nolds, Jacob Bigelow and Oliver Wendell Holmes (q. v. to all), he was active in the es- tablishment of the Tremont Street Medical School, an institution founded largely as a protest against the formal and inefficient in- struction of the Harvard Medical School of those days, which ofifered a school year of only four months. As a result of the great success of the Tremont Street School before long Har- vard found itself forced to take it over bodily, and its corps of teachers became highly hon- ored Harvard professors. Dr. Storer accepted the chair of obstetrics and medical jurispru- dence, which he held from 1854 to 1868 and he also served as dean from 1855 to 1864. As a teacher he was one of the best that the medical school has ever had, not at all of the modern scientific type, but the teacher who possesses the secret of being able to com- municate his own intense enthusiasm to his students. As dean he felt very strongly his responsibility for his charges and as a result his home was the rendezvous of the many students who in those days flocked to Har- vard from distant places. In addition to the claims of a very large general and obstetrical practice and of the position of visiting physician to the Massa- chusetts General Hospital (1849-1858), and to the Boston Lying-in Hospital (1854-1868), and to the many demands made upon his time by the medical school. Dr. Storer was an ardent and very active naturalist. Joining the Boston Society of Natural History at an early age, he soon became a constant con- tributor to its proceedings and under its auspices published in 1846 "A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America" and in 1867 "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts," monographs still highly esteemed by special- ists. His fine collection of shells he left by will to Bowdoin College. He contributed over 125 papers to medical literature, several being in book form. Dr. Storer married in 1829 Abby Jane Brewer, a descendant of Governor Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Of his five chil- dren one son. Dr. Horatio Robinson, living in Newport, Rhode Island, was till 1872 one of the pioneers in gynecology and in his later years a writer on medical numismatics of international repute; another son, Francis Humphreys, was for many years professor of agricultural chemistry at Harvard Univer- sity and Dean of the Bussey Institution; while