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NAME TONER 1154 TORNEY Diagrams," 1872; "Free Parks, Camping Grounds or Sanitariums for the Sick Children of the Poor in Cities" ; "Statistical Sketch of the Medical Profession of the United States" ; "Statistics of the Medical Associations and Hospitals of the United Stater," 1873; "Dic- tionary of Elevations and Climatic Register" ; "Annals of Medical Progress and Education in America" ; "Contributions to the Study of Yellow Fever in the United States — Its Dis- tribution ; with weatlier maps," 1874; "Annual Oration before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland," 1875; "Biographical Sketch of Dr. John D. Jackson" ; "Medical Men of the Revolution," an address before the Alumni of the Jefferson Medical College, 1876; "Sketch of the Life of Dr. T. M. Logan"; "Biography of Dr. John Morgan, of Philadel- phia" ; "Addresses on Biography before the International Medical Congress," 1876, and "Rocky Mountain Medical Association," and a "Memorial Volume with a Biography of Its Members," 1877; also addresses before vari- ous societies and colleges. In 1874 he placed a gold medal, struck at the United States Mint, and bearing his like- ness, at the disposal of the Faculty of Jeffer- son Medical College to be awarded annually to the student producing the best thesis based upon original research. In the same year he established a medal to be granted annually by the faculty of the University of Georgetown, District of Columbia, to the student who should collect and name the greatest number of specimens in any department of the natural sciences. In 1882 he gave his entire library, including manuscripts, to the United States Government. It consisted of 28,000 books and 18,000 pamphlets. Parvin ("Transactions of the seventy-fifth Anniversary, of tlie Medical Society of the District of Columbia," 1894, p. 22) says of Toner: "He was one whose genial manners, gener- ous heart and kindly deeds have endeared him to all who have known him ; one who had made for himself a name in the profession by important historical researches, and by his large and valuable collection of medical works donated to the public," Congress, in acknowl- edgment of the doctor's present to the nation, of 28,000 books and pamphlets, ordered both his bust and portrait to be made and placed in the Library of Congress — a just and hon- orable recognition of his great and generous gift. He should be held in honored remem- brance as the faithful historian, who, through years of painstaking and laborious investiga- tions collated the early history of the profes- sion in this district, from municipal and na- tional records, newspaper publications, family reminiscences, legend and tradition. He veri- fied and arranged these data with such accu- racy and completeness in an address delivered September 26, 1866, that it is now and always will be accepted as the standard history of the medical profession of this district prior to 1866." "No one ever approached, much less equalled him, in the painstaking collection of data, of persosal history that might prove of interest, and it was a mystery to many how he managed to have his facts apparently within immediate reach, whenever the occasion called for them." He died at Cresson Springs, Pennsylvania, on July 30, 1896. Daniel Smith Lamb. Minutes Med. Soc.. D. C, Oct. 14 and 21, 1896. Phys. and Surg, of United States. W. B. Atkin- son, 1878. Nortiiwestern Med. and Surg. Jour.. St. Paul, Minn., 1S72-3, vol. iii. .Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog.. 1889, vol. vi. National Med. Rev., Washington, D. C, 1896-7, vol. vi. Biog. Sketch of J. M. Toner. T. Antisell. Washington, D. C. 1877. Torney, George Henry (1850-1914). George Henry Torney, Surgeon General of the United States Army from 1909 to 1914, was born in Baltimore, June 1, 1850. He was educated at Carroll University, New Windsor, Maryland, and studied medicine at the Univer- sity of Virginia, where he obtained the de- gree of doctor of medicine in 1870. In the following year he entered the United States Navy as assistant surgeon but resigned in 1875 and was at once appointed assistant sur- geon in the United States .Army. He served at various military posts, was made captain in 1880 and major in 1894. From 1894 to 1898, Torney served as surgeon at the Military Academy at West Point. During the Spanish- -American war he was in command of the hos- pital ship Relief. Froiu 1899 to 1902 he was in charge of the army hospital at Hot Springs, and then served for a year in the Philippines. In 1903 he obtained tlje rank of lieutenant colonel, and was appointed chief surgeon of the Department of California. From 1904 to 1908 he was in charge of the United States General Hospital at San Francisco. In this position he rendered valuable services, by his tact, energy and administrative ability, during the great earthquake and fire which destroyed the greater part of the city. Torney was made colonel in 1908 and appointed surgeon- general of the United States Army, in the