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NAME WATERHOUSE 1203 WATERMAN mostly from consumption. Indeed, never in his twenty-three years of experience had Waterhouse seen "so many hectical habits and consumptive affections as of late years." All of which he ascribed to the evil effects of smoking and drinking. It was a vigorous argument, not sparing the clergy, and cal- culated to do great good. Six editions were printed during the next fifteen or twenty years, and the lecture was translated into several for- eign languages. The fame of this popular lecture always displeased Dr. Waterhouse. Dr. Waterhouse married twice, the last time a daughter of Thomas Lee, of Cambridge. In personal appearance the eminent doctor was of medium height, compactly built and desti- tute of anj' superfluous flesh ; quick and alert in all his movements, he seemed at all times to be prepared both bodily and mentally for im- mediate action or speech. Being of Quaker origin he was scrupulously nice in his attire, dressing always in the English medical style in fine black broadcloth, and carrj'ing a gold- headed cane. When speaking he gesticulated freely and enunciated strongly. In conversa- tion he was full of information and of anec- dote, and very entertaining. Waterhouse's long period of study in Eng- land in association with distinguished medical and scientific men probably partialh' unfitted him for his work in the new world. The fact that he never had and never wished for a practice always kept him short of funds. His controversial spirit and the fact that very few of his contemporaries had anything like an adequate scientific training broHight him into frequent conflict with them. Added to this, the fact that he was a dissenter in religion and opposed to the aristocratic group that con- trolled affairs in Boston and about the uni- versity, led to many unpleasant complications, the result being that while American medicine owes much to this first professor of theory and practice at Harvard, until the appearance of the paper on "Waterhouse, the Jenner of America," by Prof. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins, this distinguished American, although recognized by his contemporaries abroad and in other parts of America, had no proper place in the annals of Boston and Harvard. He died in Cambridge, October 2, 1846, at the advanced age of ninety-two years and seven months, having been in poor health for many years before the end. The following are the titles of some of his publications: "Rise, Progress and Present State of Medicine," Boston, 1786; "Dissertatio Med. de Sympathia," Ludg. Bal., 1780; "The Botanist," 1811; "Lectures on Natural History with a Discourse on the Principle of Vitality," 1790; "Circular Letter to the Surgeons in the Second Military Department of the United States Army (on dysentery)," Cambridge, 1817; "An Essay Concerning Whooping Cough, with Observations on the Diseases of Children," Boston, 1822; "Essay on Junius and his Letters; Life of W. Pitt, etc.," Bos- ton, 1831. "Journal of a Young Man of Massa- chusetts Captured at Sea by the British. May, 1812," a novel, Boston, 1816; "Oratio Inahg. Quam in Academia Harvardiana Habuit, 1783," Cantab, 1829. Arthur K. Stoxe. Waterhouse, the Jenner of America, W. H, Welch, An Address, Phila., 1885. Jefferson as a Vaccinator. Henrv A. Martin, Bull. Har. Med. Alumni Asso., 1902-3. The History and Practice of Vaccination, Jamea Moore, Lon., 1817. Reports of a Scries of Inoculations for the Vari- ol;e Vaccinae, or Cow-pox, by William Wood- ville, M. D., London, 1799. Boston Med. & Surg. Jour., Oct. 7, 1846. vol. XXXV. Hist. Har. Med. School, T. F. Harrington, vol. i. Portrait in the Van Kaathoven Coll., Surg. -gen. 's Lib., Wash., D. C. Waterman, Luther Dana (1830-1918) Luther Dana Waterman was born in Wheel- ing, West Virginia, November 21, 1830, and died at Indianapolis, Indiana, June 30, 1918. His father, Joseph Aplin Waterman, of Corn- ish, New Hampshire, was educated as a physi- cian but became a Methodist minister. The mother, Susan Dana of Belfry, Ohio, died when Luther was but seven years old, leaving five young children, three of them younger than Luther. Luther was reared by his maternal grandmother, a descendant of Captain Dana, one of the settlers of Fort Marietta, Ohio. After attending Miami University four years. Dr. Waterman entered the Medical College of Ohio, from which he graduated in 1853. While a student he supported himself by teaching school. While a medical student he won a prize of fifty dollars offered by one of the Cincinnati papers for the best poem for a New Year's edition. Dr. Waterman never lost interest in literature. Of his publications, the most noteworthy is "Phantoms of Life," a book of poems published in 1883. His paper published in 1878, an address as president of the Indiana Medical Society, entitled "Economy and Necessity of a State Board of Health," resulted in the establishment of the State Board of Health of Indiana. At the o'utbreak of the Civil War Dr. Waterman volunteered and for more than three years served his country, first as surgeon