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WYNNE headings may be found in the Index Medicus and other catalogues.

Dr. Wyman was unmarried. He died, of Bright's disease and diabetes, complicated by carbuncle, at Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C., November 21, 1911.



Wynne, James (1814–1871)

James Wynne was born in Utica, New York, in 1814 and died in Guatemala, Central America. February 11, 1871. He was a lineal descendant of Sir John Wynne, of Gwydyr, Wales. He was educated at the University of the City of New York, studied medicine, and was licensed to practise, settling in Baltimore, Md. Later he removed to New York City, where he devoted much attention to the subject of life insurance and medical jurisprudence, contributing to the Transactions of the American Medical Society, to the North American Review, Knickerbocker, and other standard magazines, and. about 1867 he emigrated to Guatemala, where he engaged in coffee-culture. He published valuable reports, including "Public Hygiene" (New York, 1847); "Asiatic Cholera in the United States in 1847," prepared at the request of the British government, from which he received a medal (London, 1852); and one on the "Vital Statistics of the United States," made to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York and London (New York, 1877). His other works are "Memoir of Maj. Samuel Ringgold" (Baltimore, 1847); "Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America" (New York, 1850); "Importance of the Study of Legal Medicine" (New York, 1857); and "The Private Libraries of New York" (1863).



Wynne, Thomas (1631–1692)

Doctor James J. Levick has called attention to the fact that all the physicians of Philadelphia, previous to 1700, were natives of Wales, even though Welsh immigrants formed but a part of the population of that city. Among them was Thomas Wynne who set sail from Deal, England, August 30, 1682, in the ship Welcome, with William Penn, on his first voyage to America, reaching here October 27, 1682. Wynne had practised medicine on the Surrey side of the Thames for some thirty years and was said to have been "the most thoroughly equipped and learned physician who, until then, had visited America." When smallpox broke out on the Welcome coming over, the skill of "good Dr. Wynne" was taxed to the utmost. Here was a three hundred ton vessel, with one hundred emigrants, with insufficient medical attendance, no delicacies for the sick and only such remedies as could be supplied from the ship's medicine chest; and the voyage took fifty-three days. But Wynne, acting as both physician and nurse, conquered the epidemic; thirty died of smallpox before the voyage was over.

Wynne was born in the town of Caerwys, Flintshire, North Wales, in 1631 and was the fifth son of Sir John Wynne, of Gwydyr, and Sydney, daughter of Sir William Gerard, Chancellor of Ireland. He was sent to London in 1650, entered the Royal College of Surgeons and was subsequently licensed as a surgeon and physician. He married Mary Bultall about 1656.

After landing with Penn in Philadelphia, Wynne became a member and president of the first Provincial Assembly held in that town, a prominent preacher among the Friends and a writer of controversial tracts. Penn was warmly attached to him and named the present Chestnut Street, one of the principal thoroughfares of the new city, Wynne Street, in his honor.

A daughter of Wynne, Mary, married Edward Jones, whose daughter, Martha Wynne Jones, became the wife of John Cadwalader, the father of Thomas Cadwalader, and so Wynne was the great-grandfather of Thomas Cadwalader.

Wynne purchased five thousand acres of land in Sussex County, Delaware, and lived there for a time, but returned to Philadelphia, where he died January 16, 1692.



Wythe, Joseph Henry (1822–1901)

Joseph Henry Wythe, preacher-physician, was born in Manchester, England, March 19, 1822, the son of Joseph Wythe and Mary Chamberlain. He came to this country in 1835 and was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1842. He studied medicine and was graduated in 1850 at the Pennsylvania Medical College and settled in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, where he was surgeon to the Beaver Meadow Collieries. In 1862–3 he was surgeon in the United States Army and organized Camp Parole Hospital at Alexandria, Virginia.