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NAME COBB 232 COCHRAN other medical journals. He wrote a mono- graph on "Hereditary Haemorrhage." He was associated with his brother, Ben- jamin Hornor Coates, Franklin Bache, Henry Bond and others in the "Philadelphia Medical Academy," which continued fifteen months. Coates was appointed comparative anatomist of the South Sea expedition, but the under- taking was broken up and he had no con- nection with the new expedition which sailed. He carried on several courses of lectures on physiology, human and comparative, which were delivered in a number of the principal Atlantic sea-coast cities, including Boston. Personally he was rather above the middle height, "with broad shoulders and limbs to match ; a front like Jove himself ; a voice rather rough, and a manner quiet and con- templative." He liked "good living" and was fond of reciting poetry. In 1845 Dr. Coates moved to Camden, New Jersey, where he died of pneumonia, April 28, 1886, at the age of eighty-four. Howard A. Kelly. Bost. Med. & Surg. Jour. 1851, vol. vliv., 135-137. Med. & Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1886, vol. liv., 608. Cobb, Jedediah (1800-1860) Born on February 27, 1800, at Gray, Maine, Jedediah Cobb entered Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in September, 1816, gradu- ating in 1820. Of his family nothing is known. Later he went to Boston, where he became a private pupil of Dr. George C. Shattuck (q. v.). He took his M. D. at Bowdoin College Septem- ber, 1823, then went to Portland, Maine, with the intention of practising but had been there only a few months wtien he was appointed professor of theory and practice of medicine in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. His journey was long and tedious, for when he reached Pittsburg no steamer could be found small enough for the low stage of water in the Ohio, consequently he was obliged to take passage with several other gentlemen in a common flatboat. A part of their duty consisted in rowing their little craft and cooking their own food. After nearly two weeks of hard work they reached the "Queen City." His first course of lec- tures in the Medical College of Ohio was delivered in the winter of 1824-S, and the second the following year, when he was trans- ferred to the chair of anatomy. This he held until his removal to Louisville, Ken- tucky, in 1837, to take the chair of anatomy in Louisville University. In 1838 Dr. Drake was added to the faculty. , In 1852 Dr. Cobb resigned and re-entered the Medical College of Ohio with an entirely new faculty of which Dr. Drake was a con- spicuous member. The session had hardly commenced before Drake died ; and towards spring the health of Dr. Cobb failing, he considered it his duty to resign, bidding a final farewell to medical teaching. In the spring of 1854 Dr. Cobb settled on a small farm at Manchester, Massachusetts. In consequence of not being engaged in practice, Dr. Cobb acted for many years as dean of the several faculties with which he was connected, and his accuracy as an accountant was proverbial. In 1830 he vis- ited Europe, partly at the instance of the Medical College of Ohio, to make purchases for its museum and library. In 1836-37 he delivered two courses of lec- tures on anatomy at Bowdoin College. He had the greatest aversion to writing, hence has left nothing literary. He married in 1826 Ann Maria Merrill, and had two sons and a daughter. He died in Manchester, Massachusetts, November 16, 1860, of an ulcerated stomach. A. G. Drury. "Necrological Notice of Jedediah Cobb, M.D.** By Samuel D. Gross, M.D., North American Medico-Chirurgical Review, January, 1861. Cochran, Jerome (1831-1896) Jerome Cochran, medico legal expert, was born at Moscow, Tennessee, December 4, 1831, and graduated from Nashville Uni- versity in 1861. During the war he was sur- geon in the confederate army. In 1865 he settled in Mobile, where he practised for a num- ber of years; for the last fifteen years of his Ufe he practised in Montgomery. Dr. Cochran was an energetic worker in the field of forensic medicine and public hygiene. In 1873 he was appointed chair- man of the Committee on Public Health of the State Medical Association, and in that capacity did much and excellent service. He drafted in 1875 the "Act to Establish Boards of Health in the State of Alabama," and in 1877 the "Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Alabama." In 1868 he was elected professor of chem- istry in the Medical College of Alabama, and in 1873 his professorship was enlarged to that of "chemistry, public hygiene, and medi- cal jurisprudence," which he held until death, after a long illness on August 17, 1896. Dr. Cochran was a man of many friends. Odd as he was in many of his ways, his eccen- tricities only the more endeared him to those who knew and loved him, and these were