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NAME WHITTIER 1231 WICKES Good Samaritan Hospital. In 1870, professor of physiology, and in 1879, professor of theory and practice of medicine, a position he held until his death. Something of a linguist, he would, while studying a language in his busy years, take his teacher with him in his carriage, reading and conversing in the intervals between visits. He was much interested in Koch's work on the bacillus of tuberculosis, and introduced tu- berculin into Cincinnati. He edited the Cincinnati Clinic from its foundation in 1871 until July, 1876, and later was an associate editor of the International Medical Magazine. Dr. Whittaker was married three times ; to Mary Box Davis, in 1873, who died in 1883, leaving no children. In 1884, to Ella M. Har- rison, who died in 1888, leaving three children, James, Alice and Hugh. In 1890, he married his third wife. Virginia Lee Joy. who survived him; by this marriage there were two chil- dren, Wallace and Virginia. Dr. Whittaker died in Cincinnati on June 5, 1900, of carcinoma of the rectum. His more important works are: "Morbid Anatomy of the Placenta," prize essay. New York, 1870; "Text-book on Physiology," Cin- cinnati, 1879 ; "Theory and Practice of Med- icine," 1893; "Exiled for Lese Majeste," 1898 (a novel). Alexander G. Drury. See. In Memoriam, by A. G. Drury, Cincinnati, 1900. Whittier, Edward Newton (1841-1902) Edward Newton Whittier was born July 2, 1841, at Portland, Maine. He entered Brown University in 1858, but before he graduated the Civil War had begun and Whittier left his books, and did not return until peace was re- stored, when he settled in Boston. With a spirit and a purpose that were char- acteristic he sought early opportunity to enter the service of the Union; and his first term was of three months with the First Rhode Island Volunteer Regiment. Immediately up- on his return from duty he joined the Fifth Maine Battery, and was commissioned a sec- ond lieutenant ; and presently became first lieutenant. At the battle of Gettysburg this battery, then under his coinmand, won conspicuous distinction by resisting effectual- ly a night attack by the enemy upon the Union troops stationed at Gulp's Hill. For this ser- vice and for services equally gallant in 1864. under General Sheridan, in the valley of the Shenandoah he received the special medal of honor conferred by Congress for "faithful, gallant, and meritorious services," with brevet rank of captain of volunteers. He resumed student life at Providence af- ter his discharge from the army, reentering the class of 1862; then went to the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1869, and in 1873 was on the visiting staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a po- sition he held for many years. In 1877 he was assistant in clinical medicine ; his teach- ing service in the Harvard Medical School continued until 1888, when he held the posi- tion of assistant professor of clinical medi- cine. Whittier was a remarkably able teacher of the elementary branches of clinical medi- cine and many a man now living remembers his public clinics at the Massachusetts General Hospital. "Gentlemen," he would say, "The patient who comes to us this morning is pe- culiarly fitted by reason of his intelligence to tell us all that is the matter with him." Mean- while, Pat Mahoney, a good deal frightened at being the center of interest to some two score pairs of eyes ranged around the large amphi- theater, blinks and gasps. "Mr. . What is your name?" "Yes, Mr. Mahoney is not con- tent with the diagnosis of one man, he wishes to have the combined wisdom of all these doc- tors." And then Dr. Whittier, erect and mili- tary in bearing, would sweep his arm in a semicircle towards the seats. By this time Pat felt he was getting more attention than the average patient and showed signs of re- turning confidence. After a little further buoyant treatment he was quite ready to have an}' number of stethoscopes applied to his chest and submit to an unlimited amount of per- cussion. A differential diagnosis by the aid of tables and schedules written on the board and a summary of the treatment were parts of every clinic. After resigning his appointment in 1888, Dr. Whittier devoted himself with great success to private practice ; and it is fair to say that at no period of his life was he more widely esteemed than at the time of his last sickness. He died at his home in Boston, June 14, 1902, aged sixty-one, the end coming suddenly, as a result of sclerosis and obstruction of the coronary artery. Walter L. Burraoe. Bull. Harv. Med. Alumni Asso., July, 1902. Bos. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol cxivi, 704. Wickes, Stephen (1813-1889) Stephen Wickes, medical historian of New Jersey, was born in Jamaica, Long Island, March 17, 1813, son of Van Wyck Wickes and Eliza Harriman ; an ancestor, Thomas