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NAME TIFFANY 1147 TIFFAN course because of failing health, the result of overwork and great privations. In 1872 he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving his degree in 1874. He settled at first in Grand Haven, Mich., but being unsuccessful, went again to Minne- sota, thence to East St. Louis, where, however, he could not gain a practice. Returning once more to Minnesota, he was ably assisted by a worthy and wealthy lady, Mrs. Esther Fuller, and settling at a town called Medford, soon had a large practice. In 1876-77 he studied the eye, ear, nose and throat at London, Berlin, Vienna and Paris, in the last city meeting Miss Olive E. Fairbanks, whom he afterwards married in Kansas City, in 1879. In 1878 he settled as ophthalmologist and oto-laryngologist at Kansas City, Missouri, and soon was widely known as lecturer and operator. In 1880 he founded the Kansas City University, in which institution he held the chair of ophthalmology, otology and micros- copy till 1893, occupying the chair of ophthal- mology and laryngology until about the time of his death. For many years he was president of the institution. Dr. Tiflany was oculist to the Burlington Railroad and to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. He was a fellow of the American Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Missouri Valley Medical Association, and the Tri-State Medical Association. He was president once of each of the two last mentioned institutions. He was a small, spare man, smooth-faced, of fair complexion with blue eyes and brown hair, brisk, alert, frank and friendly. Fond of travel, he made the "grand tour" twice, and sixteen separate trips through Europe. He liked music and was greatly interested in the French. His tirst wife died in 1910. In 1912 he met, in a railway depot at Kansas City, Miss Zoc Clark, a high school teacher, who afterward came to his office for treatment for her eyes. As the doctor says in his latest book, "this was a case of love at first sight." The mar- riage occurred September 12, 1912, at "Tif- fany Castle," the doctor's residence at Garfield Avenue and Cliff Drive. The couple left at once for a honeymoon trip around the world, a trip which the doctor describes enchantingly in his volume, "Journey Round the World by an Oculist." Two daughters were the issue. The doctor was sixty-eight when his son was born, the crowning happiness of his life. Dr. Tiffany died at St. Luke's Hospital, Kan- sas City, Missouri, January 4, 1918, of arterio- sclerosis, survived by his wife and children. He wrote numerous books and articles, the most important of the former being "Anoma- lies of Refraction and Diseases of the Eye," "A Trip Around the World by an Oculist," "A Sojourn in Switzerland," "A Sojourn in Spain." The more important journal articles deal with cataract and glaucoma. Thomas Hall Shastid. Emin. Amer. Phys. and Surgs. R. F. Stone, M. D. Indianapolis. 1894. p. 689. Private Sources. Tiffany, LouU McLane (1844-1916). Louis McLane Tiffany was the surgical teacher at the University of Maryland of thou- sands of students and a skilled and original surgeon of the modern era, who successfully bridged the chasm between the old and the new. He was born in Baltimore, October 10. 1844, the son of Henry Tiffany of Rhode Island and Sally Jones McLane, daughter of the statesman, Louis McLane (minister to Eng- land, and Secretary of State under President Van Buren). He received his early training in private schools in New England and Paris before going to the University of Cambridge, England, where he took his A. B. degree in 1866, and later received his A. M. While there he won a reputation as an athlete and honors in cricket and rowing. On returning to Baltimore he graduated in medicine at the University of Maryland in 1868. In 1871 he married Madeline Borland of Bos- ton, Massachusetts; one daughter, Mrs. Gor- don Abbott, survived him and lived in Boston.- After his wife's death he married Evelyn May Bayly of Virginia. Dr. Tiffany's surgical career began under the old-fashioned pre-antiseptic regime, in Bal- timore, in 1868. First, as resident and then visiting physician at Bay View, and from 1869 to 1875 as demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Maryland; from 1874 to 1880 professor of operative surgery, succeeding Al- len P. Smith, and in 1881, on the withdrawal of Christopher Johnson, he was made professor of surgery. His active practice closed with his resignation of this position in 1892. For fifteen years he was surgeon-in-chief of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and during this time he was visiting and consulting surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital, the Church Home, and consulting surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He held many local and national offices in his profession. He was president of the Baltimore Medical Association, of the Old Clinical Societj', of the Medical and Chirurgical