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BLEYER doctor's register, produced in court, proved that it did not freeze on that night, and the amount was saved to the company.

Dr. Blatchford was connected with the Marshall Infirmary of Troy from its foundation. The Lunatic Asylum connected with the infirmary was projected by him, and will remain as a monument of his tender regard for the unhappy ones who shall be its occupants in the long future. He left his valuable medical library of over six hundred volumes to the institution.

His reputation as a man of science was recognized in the degree of A. M. by Union College in 1815; in his election as fellow of the Albany Medical College in 1834; president of the Rensselaer County Medical Society 1842–3; president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, 1845; corresponding fellow of New York Academy of Medicine, 1847; vice-president of the American Medical Association, 1856; fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1861; honorary member of the Medical Society of New Jersey, 1861, and of the Medical Society of Connecticut, 1862.

The doctor's labors in relieving the wants of those who suffered by the great fires of 1862 were so severe that his health was thereby seriously impaired. His last illness developed itself into an attack of "typhoid pneumonia" which continued for fifteen days, when, having finished his work, he fell asleep on the seventh of January, 1866.



Bleyer, Julius Mount (1859–1915)

Julius Mount Bleyer, specialist in electrotherapeutics and diseases of the nose, throat and lungs, was born at Pilsen, Austria, March 16, 1859, son of Samuel and Sophia Bleyer; with his parents he came to the United States in 1868. He was a student at the University of Prague two years and received his medical degree at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1883. The Central University of Indiana gave him an LL. D. in 1896. He began to practise in New York in 1883 and remained there all his life.

He was a member of the New York Medico-Legal Society and used his influence to secure the adoption of a new method to end the lives of criminals, assisting in devising the death chair for electrocution. He was Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Surgery, Naples, Italy; Anthropological Society of Italy; Laryngological Society and Electrical Society (Paris); National Academy Medicine (Mexico). He was consulting specialist for the Metropolitan Opera Company.

In 1884 he married Rose Floersheim of New York. Dr. Bleyer died at his home in New York, April 3, 1915.



Bliss, Arthur Ames (1859–1913)

Arthur Ames Bliss, son of Theodore Bliss, publisher and bookseller of Philadelphia, and Mary Wright, was born in Northhampton, Mass., July 13, 1859. He received his early education at a private school in Philadelphia and entered Princeton University where he graduated A. B. in 1880 and later took his A. M. He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and served for one year as interne at the Philadelphia (Blockley) Hospital. A year abroad was spent in special studies in diseases of the ear, nose and throat in the clinics of Vienna, Berlin, Heidelberg and London. On returning to Philadelphia in 1885 he began a general practice and in a few months became an assistant to J. Solis Cohen at the Philadelphia Polyclinic. Bliss organized and established the ear, nose and throat clinic of the German Hospital in Philadelphia where he was the laryngologist and otologist. This position he held for about ten years and then relinquished it, retaining the children's department and the position of consulting laryngologist and otologist and his work at the Mary J. Drexel Home.

Bliss also held the positions of consulting laryngologist and otologist to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; laryngologist to the Chestnut Hill Hospital; consulting laryngologist to the Epileptic Hospital. For several years, and until the death of the late Harrison Allen, Bliss was his assistant in all of his nasal surgical work.

He was elected fellow of the American Laryngological Association in 1883, and was a vice-president in 1900, and he was chairman of the section of otology and laryngology in the Philadelphia College of Physicians.

In 1893 he married Laura Neuhaus of Vienna, Austria, who survived him.

His claim upon posterity is vested in two little books. In one of them, "Theodore Bliss, Publisher and Bookseller" (1911), he has left us a memento of his father's life, for the most part autobiographical, but put down and edited by the son, a valuable picture, full of local color, of our eastern state American home-life over two generations ago, the antithesis of life today. Here we find old Northhampton with its canal stretching down to New Haven on which Bliss made the trip in