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NAME WATSON 1206 WATSON tion of tlie Superior Maxillary Nerve" (Medical Record, 1871 ) ; "Woorara in Rabies" (American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. Ixxiii) ; "Disease Germs, Their Origin, Nature and Relation to Wounds" ("Transac- tions of American Medical Association," vol. xxix). He translated several medical essays from the French and German, and wrote one large volume, "Amputations and Their Complica- tions" (1885) and left an unfinished work on "Surgery of the Spine." He contributed "Pyemia and Septicemia" to Pepper's "Ameri- can System of Practical Medicine" and a chap- ter on "The Operative Treatment of the Spleen" to Keating's "Diseases of Children." A short "History of Surgery" was one of his contributions to medical history and he also wrote a brochure on "Experimental Study of Lesions Arising From Severe Concussions." In 1882 Rutgers College gave him her hon- orary A. M. Anns, of Surg., 1893, vol. xvii. Roy Inglis. Trans. Amer. Surg, Asso., Phila., 1894, vols, xii, xxiii. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., 1889. Watson, Irving Allison (1849-1918) Irving A. Watson, secretary of the New Hampshire state board of health from its or- ganization in 1881, was born at Salisbury in that state, September 6, 1849, the son of Porter B. and Luvia B. Ladd Watson. His early education was obtained at the common schools and at the Newbury, Ver- mont, seminary and collegiate institute. Lec- tures were attended at the Dartmouth Medical School and at the University of Vermont, the M. D. degree being received at the latter in 1871. The next ten years v»ere passed as a practising physician at Groveton, New Hamp- shire. Here Dr. Watson served the town as superintendent of schools and in 1879 and 1881 was a representative in the legislature. In the latter j-ear the state board of health was or- ganized and Dr. Watson became its secretary, removing to Concord and taking up his duties that were to be terminated only by his death, which occurred at his home in Concord, April 3, 1918. Other offices held by Dr. Watson were secretary of the New Hampshire com- missioners of lunacy; registrar of vital sta- tistics of New Hampshire; president of the state board of cattle commissioners; secretary of the American Public Health Association (1883-97); president of the New Hampshire medical society (1903) ; assistant secretary- general first Pan-American medical congress ; president international conference State and Provincial boards of health (1903). Dr. Watson compiled and edited "Physicians and Surgeons of America," a quarto volume published in Concord in 1896. This is an illus- trated book of the lives of, for the most part, contem-porary medical men. Like other books of the sort containing the lives of those who were living when the material was gath- tred, it had biographies of many who were not really eminent. From the standpoint of the medical biographer the book has a value be- cause it contains data concerning a large num- ber of physicians that have been supplied and corrected by the physicians themselves and therefore may be considered to be correct, a most important consideration. Dr. Watson edited New Hampshire Regis- tration Reports since 1881 ; Reports of the State Board of Health since 1882 ; Reports of the American Public Health Association, 1883- 97 ; Reports of the New Hampshire Commis- sioners of Lunacy ; besides furnishing papers to medical periodicals on medical and sanitary topics. In 1872 he married Lena A. Parr of Little- ton, New Hampshire. She died in 1901, leav- ing a daughter. Bertha M., who was an assis- tant in the office of the state board of health in the department of registration of vital sta- tistics. Trans. N. H. Med. See. 1918, Manchester. N. H., 266-268. Portrait. Who's Who in Amer., Chicago, 1916-17, vol. ix, Watson, John (1807-1863) John Watson, of New York, organizer of one of the first dispensaries for the treatment of skin diseases, and introducer of reforms in the New York Hospital, was born in London- derrj-, Ireland, April 16, 1807. His parents, who were of Scotch descent, emigrated to the United States in 1810 and settled in New York City in 1818. John took his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1832, having served as house surgeon at the New York Hospital, and the following year was appointed on the staff of the New York Dispensary; he served th« hospital as visiting surgeon from 1839 to 186i, introducing great reforms so that it became one of the most complete hospitals in the country both in its care of patients and as a place of instruction for students. At his death he left to the New York Hospital his very considerable private library. In 1836, in con- nection with H. D. Bulkley (q.v.), he estab- lished an infirmary for cutaneous diseases, which within a few months led to the organi- zation of the "Broome Street School of Medi- cine," in which Dr. Watson held the chair of surgical pathology. This school was finally