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NAME WESSELHOEFT 1218 WEST Manitoba, Toronto and Alberta had conferred the degree of LL. D. on him. There have been few men with a more cheering and attractive personality, and had he been spared he would undoubtedly have put into execution many of his hopes and plans for the new university and education in general. He married Annie, daughter of Sir Thomas W. Taylor, chief justice of Manitoba, April 8, 1896. The Canadian Med. Jour., Dec, 1918, vol. viii, 1122. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., Oct. 26, 1918, vol. Ixxi, 1428. Canadian Men and Women of the Time, Henry J. Morgan. Toronto, 1912. Wesselhoeft, Conrad (1834-1904) Conrad Wesselhoeft, a prominent home- opathist, was born in Weimar, Germany, March 23, 1834, and came to America with his parents, Robert and Ferdinanda E. Wessel- hoeft, when a boy. He was graduated from the Harvard Med- ical School in 1856 and at once began prac- tice in Boston, soon becoming one of the leading homeopathists. As physician and trustee of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital for nearly the entire period of his professional life, he was unremitting in his labors for the cause of homeopathy. In 1879 he was president of the American Institute of Homeopathy and in later years president of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical So- ciety, and also of the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society. He filled the chair of path- ology and therapeutics in the Medical School (Homeopathic) of Boston University for many years, with distinguished ability and he was chairman of the consulting staff of the Westborough, Massachusetts, insane hospital. As a medical author his work covered a wide range, the most notable of his writings being a translation of the "Organon" of Hahnemann. He was one of the committee for preparing the "Cyclopedia of Drug Path- ogenesy," also on the committee for publish- ing the "Pharmacopeia of the American Insti- tute of Homeopathy," and his writings for journals and medical societies were very numerous. Dr. Wesselhoeft married Elizabeth Foster Pope, who with a daughter survived him. In March, 1904, more than two hundred of his friends and associates celebrated his seventieth birthday by a banquet and presented him with a loving-cup and a purse of $2,000. Dr. Wesselhoeft had closer relations with the members of the regular profession than most homeopathists. He lectured on one oc- casion at least to the students of the Harvard Medical School, explaining the principles of homeopathy, and it was his aim to bring into closer touch all practitioners of the healing art. His death occurred in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, December 17, 1904. Walter L. Burr.ge. Bull. Harvard Med. Alumni Asso., April, 190S. West, Hamilton Atchison (1830-1903) Hamilton Atchison West was born in Rus- sell's Cave, Fayette County, Kentucky, the second child and eldest son of James N. and Isabella Atchison West. His father was a native of Georgia and his grandfather, Dr. Charles West, a physician of Georgia and a member of the Legislature. He went as a boy to the common schools and entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, graduating in 1872 with first honors — the faculty medal — for the best thesis, his subject being the "Thermom- etry of Disease." In 1873 he moved to Galveston, Texas, where he lived till his death. It was largely through his eiiforts that the medical depart- ment of the University of Texas was founded in Galveston, and upon its organization he was elected to the chair of general and clin- ical medicine. He was a vice-president of the .merican Medical Association in 1898. Dr. West's first wife was Sallie Mason Davenport, of Virginia, and his second Mrs. Ella May Fuller. Five children survived him. His death was due to acute suppression of urine, occurring in the course of chronic inter- stitial nephritis, which was further complicated by pneumonia. He had gone to New York City in the hope of getting relief, but within a week after his arrival he rapidly succumbed, dying at the home of his brother, December 30, 1903. Dr. West was a good writer and contributed largely to medical literature. He wrote the articles on "Dengue," and "Dysentery" in the "American System of Medicine," and the arti- cle on "Yellow Fever" in Gould and Pyle's "Cyclopedia of Medicine." Henry E. Handerson. West, Henry S. (1827-1876) "Died at Sivas, in Turkey in Asia, April 1 1876, Henry S. West, M. D., a missionary physician, formerly of Binghamton, New York, aged forty-nine years, three months." Such was the announcement which reached the friends of Dr. West, causing the most profound regret throughout a large circle.