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NAME WATERMAN 1204 WATHEN of the Thirty-ninth Regiment Indiana Vohm- teer Infantry, and of the Eighth Indiana Cav- alry; later as medical director of the iirst and second divisions of the Second Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. He was surgeon at the hospitals at Huntsville, Alabama, and at Bridgeport, Tennessee. He was twice cap- tured by Confederate forces. At the close of the war Dr. Waterman settled at Indianapolis where he practised his profession until his retirement in 1893, at the age of sixty-three. He was one of the charter organizers of the old Indiana Medical College, in which he was first professor of anatomy and later professor of the principles and practice of medicine. With the consolidation of the several medical schools of the state into the Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Waterman became emeritus professor of medicine. In 1915 Dr. Waterman placed in the hands of the Trustees of Indiana University deeds to property valued at one hundred thousand dollars for the promotion of research in science, the largest gift for the purpose ever made in Indiana. Dr. Waterman lived to see the establishment of the Luther Dana Waterman Institute for Research at Indiana University at Bloomington and the work of the Institute in progress. He was never married. Arthuk Lee Foley. Waterman, Sigismund (1819-1899) Sigism'und Waterman was born in Bruck, Bavaria, February 22, 1819. He was educated in Erlangen, Bavaria, and was graduated in medicine at Yale in 1848. His professional life was passed chiefly in New York, where he was engaged in general practice. In 1857 he was appointed police surgeon, a place he filled for nearly thirty years ; during the civil war he was made one of the draft surgeons. Dr. Waterman became consulting physician in 1875 to the Home for Aged and Infirm He- brews and medical director for that institu- tion. He devoted special attention to the use of the spectroscope in the practice of medicine, and was very successful in its appli- cation. During 1868 he lectured on that sub- ject before the medical societies of New York, and later spoke elsewhere on the same topic. He was a member of various medical so- cieties and contributed to the literature of his profession. Among his papers are : "Practical Remarks on Scarlatina" (1859) ; "Therapeutic Employment of Oxide of Zinc" (1861) ; "Spec- tral Analysis as an Aid in the Diagnosis of Disease" (1869) ; "The Blood-Crystals and Their Physiological Importance" (1872) ; "Spectral Analysis of Blood-Stains" (1873); "The Importance of the Spectroscope in Fo- rensic Cases" (1874) ; and "Revivification" (1884), Dr. Waterman taught German at Yale College. His death occurred in 1899. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1S8S-9. Waterman, Thomas (1842-1901) Thomas Waterman, a prominent expert in mental diseases, was the son of Thomas and Joanna Twole Waterman, and was born in Boston, December 17, 1842. He was the grandson of Col. Thomas Waterman and of the eighth generation from the English an- cestor who settled in New Hampshire. As a lad he went to the Brimmer Grammar School, Boston Latin School and Harvard Col- lege, where he graduated in 1864. He began the study of medicine with Jeffries Wj'raan (q. v), at that time professor of comparative anat- omy and physiology in Harvard University. Waterman received his M. D. from the Har- vard Medical School in 1868 and practised med- icine in Boston from that time until his death, December 14, 1901. After 1883 he devoted much of his time to mental diseases and was examining physician to the commissioners of public institutions of Boston. He also ap- peared in the courts of law as an expert in mental disease. His honesty, self-possession and carefully weighed testimony made him an excellent witness. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston So- ciety for Medical Improvement, and Boston Medico-Psjxrhological Society. During his medical training he was house surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital and from 1870 to 1881 physician and surgeon to the Boston Dispensary ; surgeon to St. Joseph's Home from 1871 to 1878; instructor in comparative anatomy and physiology at Harvard University in 1873 and 1874; and assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the Har- vard Medical School from 1879 to 1882. He married Harriet Henchman, daughter of Edward Howard, maker of the famous Howard clocks, December 4, 1872, and had two daughters. Dr. Waterman was much interested in the exposure of pseudo-spiritualism and medium- istic impostors. Boston Med. & Surg. Jour., vol. cxlvi, 27. Phys. & Surgs. of Amer., I. A. Watson. 1896. Wathen, William Hudson (1846-1913) Born near Lebanon, Kentucky, January 23, 1846, his father was Richard Wathen, and his mother, Sophia Abell Wathen. His ancestors migrated from St. Mary's County, Maryland, in