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NAME WALLACE 1187 WALTER continuing the practice of medicine at the same time until 1862. Without solicitation, he received from the surgeon-general of the Con- federate States an appointment as surgeon, and served until the close of the war, when he returned home penniless and resumed the practice of medicine in Waco. In 1874 he was appointed superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Texas, and served until 1879, when he returned to Waco. In 1883 he was appointed superinten- dent of the North Texas Asylum at Terrell, a position he filled until 1891, when he again returned to his home in Waco. During his long and efficient service in the two asylums of Texas he modernized and simplified the treatment, nursing and care of the insane along scientific and practical lines. He was one of the organizers of the Texas State Medical Association,, and once its presi- dent. He was for many years an active mem- ber of the American Medico-Psychological Association, and for several years was an hon- orary member. He died November 21, 1911, at his home in Waco, Texas, surrounded by his wife and de- scendants to the fourth generation. Institutional Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada, Henry M. Hurd, 1917. Wallace, Ellertlie (1819-1885) Ellerslie Wallace, for twenty years professor of obstetrics at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, was born in that cit>' June 15, 1819. He was of English and Scotch ancestry, claiming direct descent from Robert Bruce. His education was had at Bristol College and surveying occupied his attention at first, but becoming interested in medicine he studied with his brother, Joshua Wallace, then demon- strator of anatomy- at Jefferson, attended the lectures there and took his M. D. in 1843 at the age of twenty-four. Then followed three years of internship at the Pennsylvania Hos- pital before beginning practice in his native cit}'. In 1846 he became demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson, in his brother's place, holding the position until 1863, when he suc- ceeded Charles Deluccna Meigs (q.v.) in the chair of obstetrics. He had a strong physique, was an earnest and positive teacher and gave special attention in his instruction to the physical structures of the pelvis and the child's head. He devised a cephalotribe and forceps, the latter being con- sidered a valuable instrument. He wrote a moderate amount for the medical literature of the time but his chief contribution to medical progress was his twenty years of teaching. During the war he was an active member of the Union League of Philadelphia. In 1847 he married Miss Wistar, daughter of Bartholomew Wistar. One son followed his father and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in 1879. Phys. & Surgs. of U. S., Phila. W. B. Atkinson, 1S7S. Serai-Contenn. Mte. of Phila. Obstet. Soc, 1918, reprint. Portrait. Wallace, William B. (1835-1897) William B. Wallace, president of the Kings County Medical Society, received his early- education in Rothesay, Scotland. Later he re- turned to his native country (Ireland) and at- tended Doyle College in Londonderry. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1856, and from the Royal College of Physicians in 1860. During the Crimean war he was acting assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy. After the war he entered the service of the Cunard Steamship Company as surgeon. In 1864 he came to the United States and practised in Brooklyn. In 1867 he married Ella Louise Ladd. He became actively identified with the educational and charitable institutions of the city and was visiting physician to several hos- pitals. "There was no sacrifice within his power he was not only willing to make, but did make for the cause of Ireland and to the detriment of his professional advancement. His death was pathetic and within a few hours of that of his son, a ycang physician whom he had looked forward to helping him as a bread- winner." ., Albert Allemann. Bklvn. Med. Tour., 1S97, vol. xi, 500. Incidents of my Life, T. A. Emmet, N. Y., 1911, Walter, Albert G. (1811-1876) Albert G. Walter was a pioneer surgeon and one of the first to open the abdomen deliber- ately for traumatism, and one of the earliest American orthopedic surgeons, having up to the time of his death cut more tendons in one patient than any other surgeon ; added to all this he gained distinction as a skilful lithoto- mist and operating oculist. He was born in Germany in 1811; studied medicine in Koenigsberg, where he received his degree, then took a post-operative course ^ of one year at Berlin. He was pupil and as- sistant of the celebrated Dieffenbach, by whom he was advised to emigrate to America. On the way he was shipwrecked upon the coast of Norway and lost all his effects. He was brought with the other passengers and landed in London, without friends or means, but pro- cured a situation as clerk in a law office, where