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NAME WEIL 1213 WELCH He was a member of the American Medico- Psychological Association, the American Med- ical Association, the New Jersey State Medical Society, the Somerset County Medical Society, and at one time was president of the National Association for the Study of Epilepsy. He died at Spring City, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1909, after a short illness. Henry M. Hurd. Trans. .mer. Medico-Psychol. Asso., 1911. Weil, Richard (1876-1917) Richard Weil, one of the leaders in Ameri- can cancer research, was born in New York City, in 1876, son of Leopold Weil and Matilda Tanzer. He graduated from Columbia College in 1896, and received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- lumbia University, in 1900, and then served as interne in the German Hospital, New York. After studying abroad, chiefly in Marchand's laboratory, he returned to New York and de- voted himself to scientific medicine. He became pathologist to the German Hos- pital in 1904 and while there collaborated with Hensel and Jelliffe in publishing "Urine and Feces in Diagnosis." Active in the administra- tion of the Huntington Fund for Cancer Re- search after 1906, he was constantly engaged in this problem at the Loomis Laboratory, where he initiated those investigations on the reactions of cancer and immune sera which became his chief interest. His contributions in the field of the serology of cancer, as well as in the general problems of immunity, gained him a wide reputation. One of the founders of the American Association for Cancer Research, he was a founder and editor- in-chief of the Journul of Cancer Research. When the Memorial Hospital was reorganized in 1913, Weil became assistant director in can- cer research and attending physician to the Hospital and labored energetically to estabKsh efficient routine work; here he perfected and employed the method of transfusing citrated blood. On his appointment as professor of experimental medicine in Cornell University in 1915, be resigned his directorship of the Me- morial Hospital, but continued his experimen- tal work in cancer. On the declaration of war by the United States in 1917 he offered his services to the Government, and spent a summer at the Medi- cal Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and only a short time be- fore death was detailed as chief of the medical staff of the base hospital at Camp Joseph Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, where he died from pneumonia November 19, 1917, at the age of forty-one, a major in the Medical Reserve Corps. Weil was a fellow of the American Medical Association and a member of the American Association of Pathology and Bacteriology; he was visiting physician to Mount Sinai Hos- pital and to the Montefiore Home, New York. In 1905 Dr. Weil married Minnie, daughter of Isador Strauss, who survived him with their three children, Everlyn, Richard and Frederick Peter. J.-VMES EwiNG. A portrait with a list of his more important works is to he found in Jour. Cancer Research, Ills, vols, iii, i-v. Jour, Amer. Med. As^c, 1917, vol. Ixix, 1899. Weis.e, Faneuil Dunkin (1842-1915) The author of an excellent textbook on anatomy, illustrated by many original plates. Dr. Weisse was born in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, August 27, 1842. His father. Dr. John A. Weisse, tutored his son for twelve years previous to his entering the medical depart- ment of the University of the City of New York, where he received his M. D. in 1864. At once young Weisse became assistant dem- onstrator of anatomy in his alma mater and the following year began to teach diseases of the skin in the same institution. From 1874 to 1875 he was professor of surgical pathology, then of practical and surgical anatom}', 1876 to 1888. At the end of this time he published his textbook, "Practical Human Anatomy." During his professional life he was pro- fessor of anatomy, surgical pathology and oral surgery in the New York College of Dentistry, being dean after 1897; he was an organizer of the American Veterinary Col- lege in 1875, serving later as professor and president of the board of trustees. He must be credited with being a founder of the New York Dermatological Society and the author of many articles for the medical press. Dr. Weisse married Mary Elizabeth, da'ugh- ter of Henry Suydam, of New York, in 1872. Dr. Weisse died at his country home, Ged- ney Farms, New York, June 22, 1915, aged 73 years. Welch, William Wickham (1818-1892) William Wickham Welch was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, December 10, 1818, and died in the same town, July 30, 1892. He was born, lived, and died in the same house which had been built by his father, who was Dr. Benjamin Welch, a practising physician in the same village in which he resided until his death, which occurred in December, 1849, in his eighty-third year. Dr. Benjamin Welch