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NAME VERMYNE 1181 WADDELL Metallic Operation of Dr. Perkins" (Wilming- ton, 1797; ; he wrote, also, "A Concise History of the Yellow Fever Which Prevailed in the Borough of Wilmington, in the Year 1802" (Wilmington, 1803). He edited Hugh Smith's "Letters to Married Women" under the title of "The Female Monitor" (Wilmington, 1801) ; he was a frequent contributor to the Medical Repository. In 1795 he married Eliza, daughter of Joel Lewis, Marshal of the "District of Delaware." Vaughan died March 25, 1807, it was said, of "Pneumonia typhoides." Amer. Med. Biog., James Thachcr, Boston, 1838. Vermyne, Jan Joseph Bastianus (1835-1898) Jan Joseph Bastianus Vermyne was born in Holland, and studied in the universities of his native land, later becoming a surgeon in the Dutch Navy. For a time he served in Surinam, then practised medicine in Holland. With his wife, w'ho- was Miss Frances Bixby, an Amer- ican, he joined the Red Cross Society, and served during the Franco-Prussian War, for which he received the Order of the Legion of Honor from the French Government. He then settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the home of his wife, and devoted himself for a short time to general practice, afterwards more exclusively as an ophthalmologist and aurist. In 1873 he was elected a member of the American Ophthalmological Society, and in 1875 of the American Otological Society. He displayed great ability in his special lines of work. He was one of the founders of St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford. He was a man of culture, especially in art and music. He died, .August 16, 1898. at the age of sixty-three at Francestown, New Hampshire. Dr. Vermyne had a most interesting person- ality, which made him welcome in every social or professional circle of which he was a part. During the twenty- five years he was a mem- ber of the American Ophthalmological Society he was absent from its meetings only twice and as secretary of the American Otological Society (19 years) he was most punctual and accurate in the performance of his duties. Orderliness was a hobby with him and his handwriting a marvel of legibility. Harry Friedenwald. Trans. Amer. Oph. Soc, vol. viii. Trans. .mcr. Otol. Soc. 189Q. Von Ezdorf, Rudolph H. (1873-1916) Rudolph H. von Ezdorf, sanitarian, was born in Pennsylvania. He graduated in med- icine at Columbian (now George W^ashington) University in 1894. In 1898 he entered the United States Public Health Service as assis- tant surgeon, was promoted to be passed assis- tant surgeon in 1903 and surgeon in 1912. He served as quarantine officer in Santiago during the United States intervention in Cuba and later was quarantine officer of the Isthmian Canal Commission at Cristobal and Colon. He was with the United States forces at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1914. From 1907 to 1910 he was in charge of the Quarantine Station at New Orleans, and when this country was threatened with the invasion of cholera, in 1911, he was quarantine officer of the port of New York. The Journal of the American Medical Association (September 16, 1916) says: "By reason of his long residence in summer climates and his special study and research regarding yellow fever and malaria he was esteemed an expert in these diseases, and his death is a distinct loss to the Public Health Service and to sanitary science." He was ordered to special duty at Lincoln- ton, North Carolina, and died there Septem- ber 8, 1916, it is thought of heart disease. Oscar Dowling. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1916, vol. Ixvii, 983. Waddell, John (1810-1878) John Waddell, the second medical superin- tendent of the New Brunswick Hospital for the Insane, was the son of Rev. John Wad- dell, a Scotch Presbyterian minister, and was born a; Truro, N. S., March 17, 1810. Having received a good primary education there and at Pictou Academy, N. S., he, in 1834, began his medical studies under Dr. Lynds of Truro. These were continued at Glasgow, Scotland, and in 1839 he received his diploma as member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. During the winter of 1839-40 he attended med- ical lectures at Paris, and in the summer of 1840 returned to his native town and entered on a practice which was continued up to the date of his appointment to the superintendency of the New Brunswick Asylum, December 1, 1849, entering on the discharge of his duties on the sixth of that month. On resigning his position. May 1, 1876, he returned to Truro, his birthplace, where he died August 29, 1878. In 1840 he married the only daughter of his first medical teacher. Dr. Lynds. The follow- ing year she died. Five years afterwards he married Jane Walker Blanchard, of Truro. One daughter by this marriage survived her father. More than once during his 26 years' tenure of office the various commissioners expressed their unqualified appreciation of Dr. Waddell's able management of the asylum, and on his retirement reiterated these encomiums. Throughout his alienistic career Dr. Waddell