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NAME WALDO 1184 WALKER showed his masterly skill in using the knife and his intimate acquaintance with the human structure. Practice rapidly increased and in the winter of 1826 he began a course of dis- sections and demonstrations in practical anat- omy including the art of preserving specimens, a branch in which he had great skill. In 1829 he was appointed professor of pathological and surgical anatomy in the Medical College of South Carolina. Such a professorship was new, and treated of topics necessitating much research and practical in- formation. The syllabus published by Wagner showed his large views and personal resources. Elected to the chair of surgery in 1832, suc- ceeding Dr. James Ramsey, he continued as professor until his death on May 22, 1841, often doing his work in great bodilj' pain, for he suffered from rheumatism. Amer. Med. Jour., 1841. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1889, vol. vi. Waldo, Albigence (1750-1794) Albigence Waldo, surgeon, was born Feb- ruary 21, 1750, at Pom fret, Connecticut. He studied at the district school and was a pupil, also, of the Rev. Aaron Putnam, a minister of Pom fret, then was apprenticed to John Spald- ing, a surgeon of Canterbury. He was sur- geon during the Revolutionary War and served in New Jersey in the campaign of 1776, and afterwards in the Continental Army. At the Battle of Monmouth and while the army was in winter quarters at Valley Forge and general inoculation for smallpox was prac- tised, Waldo gained great reputation for pro- fessional skill. He was a connection by marriage, a neigh- bor and friend of Israel Putnam ; pronounced a eulogy over his grave; and aided David Humphreys in his "Life of General Putnam." After the war he settled in Windham County, Connecticut, and was a founder of the Medical Society of Windham County. He left many manuscripts, medical, surgical, historical and poetical, some of which were illustrated with excellent drawings by himself. His diary kc;M at 'a!!ey Forge, 1777-1778, was published in the Historical Magadne in 1861. He was twice married, first to Lydia Hurl- but by whom he had four sons and a daughter ; second to Lucy Cargill. He died in Windham County, January 29, 1794. Amer. Med Biog., James Thacher, Bost., 1828. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1888. Hist. Mag., 1861. vol. v. Mass. Spy, Feb. 13, 1794. Wales, Philip Skinner (1837-1906) Philip Skinner Wales, Surgeon-General of the United States Navy, was born at An- napolis, Maryland, February 27, 1837, and graduated from the University School of Medicine, Baltimore, in 1856. He also received an M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1861. He entered the Navy as assistant sur- geon in 1856, was promoted to surgeon in 1861, and served during the Civil War at the Naval Hospital at Norfolk and on the steamer Fort Jackson. He became a member of the Board of Examiners in 1873, and later occupied the posts of medical inspector, chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and medical director, he served also as surgeon-general of the Navy from 1879 to 1884. He retired from active service on account of age February 27, 1896, and spent most of his time in Washington. He died suddenly from cancer of the intestine in a hospital in Paris, September 15, 1906. He wrote "Mechanical Therapeutics," 1867, and several valuable articles for the medical journals, notably for the American Journal of Medical Sciences and the Philadelphia Med- ical and Surgical Reporter. Charles A. Pfender. N. Y. Med. Rec, 1906, vol. Ixx. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., Chicago, 1P06, vol. xlvli. Walk, James Wilson (1853-1918) James Wilson Walk was born near Cliam- bersburg, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1853, the son of Rev. Frederick and Mary Harris Brown Walk. He received his A. B. at Lafayette College in 1875, and M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1878, the title of his thesis being "Electro-Therapeutics." He never married. He' devoted much attention to charities and published a monthly journal as exponent of organized charity. He was general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, from 1882 to 1899; member of Penn- sylvania House of Representatives from 1887- 91 ; director of the Philadelphia City Charities and Correction from 1892 to 1897; and director of Health of the City from 1897 to 1899. He practised medicine in Philadelphia, and was a member of the state medicaj society of Pennsylvania and the American Academy of Medicine. He died at his home in Philadelphia, Jan- uary 19, 1918, at the age of 64. Who's Who in Amer. vol. viii. Jour. Amer. Med. -■Vsso., vol. Ixx, 406. Walker, Clement Adams (1820-1883) Clement Adams Walker, Boston alienist, was born in Fryeburg, Me., July 3, 1820. His boyhood was passed near the White Moun-