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NAME WAUGHOP 1207 WAYNE merged in the "extra course" of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where, as well as at the hospital, he continued to lecture on surgical pathology. Dr. Watson was one of the prime movers in the organization of the New York Academy of Medicine, being president in 1859, and of the American Medical Association. He is credited with having performed the earliest esophagotomy for the relief of organic stric- ture of the esophagus, reported in 1844. He wrote much for the medical journals and pub- lished "Thermal Ventilation and other Sani- tary Improvements applicable to Public Build- ings, recently adopted in the New York Hospi- tal." 1851. 8vo ; "The Medical Profession in Ancient Times," 1856; "The True Physician," 1860; "History of Medicine," nearly completed in November, 1862. He died in New York in 1863. Appleton's New Encyclop., 1868. Hist, of Med., J. H. Baas, 1889. Waughop, John We.ley (1839-1903) John Wesley Waughop, legal physician, was born October 22, 1839, near Peoria, Illinois. He received his medical degree from the Long Island Hospital Medical College in 1865. Settling in Chicago, he practised for a num- ber of years, then, on account of his health, removed to Olympia, Washington, where, soon after his arrival, he was made superintendent of the Western Washington Hospital for the Insane at Fort Stellacoom. While in Wash- ington he was very active in medical society work, the old Medical Society of Washington Territory being organized in his house. He was president of the state medical society; vice-president of the Medico-legal Society of New York, and a member of other societies. In 1897 he removed to the Hawaiian Islands, where he practised for six years. A part of this time he was superintendent of the Koloa Hospital. He did much special work on tuber- culosis for the Hawaiian board of health, and wrote a good deal on medico-legal topics, and was an experienced and careful anesthetist. having, according to report, administered chloroform in Washington and Hawaii over ten thousand times without a single death. Dr. Waughop was a tall and heavily-set man, of dark complexion and with brown hair and black eyes. He was very fond of general, as well as of scientific literature, and his favorite authors were Shakespeare, Dickens, Tennyson, Schiller, Goethe. By way of recreation, he was given to translating from the German and would frequently drop down in his chair dur- ing a spare twenty minutes, and, taking up his quill (which he always preferred to any other pen) W'ould write out the translation of a couple of paragraphs from some German author. In this way he put into English nu- merous German stories which were published in the newspapers, as well as one or two Ger- man historical works. Two little anecdotes paint his character in adversity. When a boy, while at play on the ground near the old family mare she acci- dentally stepped on him, laying open a large portion of his scalp. Though the injury must have been painful, he did not go to his parents about it ; and they were shocked when they came upon him to find him still at play with the great gash over his forehead, a scar which persisted all his life. So again when he almost severed his great toe while splitting kindling one winter's eve. He stole off to bed without telling anyone of the occurrence, and it was only when his good mother was drying her children's stockings that night before going to bed that the tell-tale cut and blood in his sock betrayed the mishap. In 1866 he married Eliza S. Rexford, of Chicago, b)' whom he had one child, Philip Rexford, who became a physician in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Waughop died August 31, 1903, at sea off Cape Flattery, Washington, enroute per steamship Noana from Honolulu for Vic- toria, British Columbia. Gradually sinking while in the Hawaiian Islands, from perni- cious anemia, and in order to seek relief from this affection he was on his way to the health- ier climate of the North. Thomas Hall Shastid. Medico-Legal Jour.. Sept., 1906. vol. .xxiv, No. 2. Dr. E. S. Goodhue. Private Sources. Wayne, Edward S. (1818-1885) Edward S. Wayne, of Quaker origin, was born in Philadelphia in 1818, and in his early years was apprenticed to a drug firm. Here he became proficient not only as a chemist, but as a mechanical engineer, and while a mere boy superintended the erection of a white lead factory, of which he had the charge for some years. After several }'ears Wayne be- came partner in a firm of chemists and after- wards had an analytical laboratory, where he remained iintil his health failed, when he re- turned to Philadelphia, dying in that city December 11, 1885. He was awarded a degree by the Ohio Medi- cal College, serving therein as professor of chemistry, and becoming an authority with the medical profession, as well as in all things per- taining to pharmacy. He was active in the organization of the Cincinnati College of Pharmac}-, holding the chair of chemistry therein until a year or so before his death.