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NAME CORDELL 251 CORNELL three children. He entered the University of Maryland Medical School in 1866 and received his degree in 1868. After being assistant resi- dent physician at the University Hospital for a year he entered practice in Baltimore in 1869. He was attending physician at the Bal- timore General Dispensary 1869-72. He soon took a leading place in the medical life of the city and was a founder of the Woman's Med- ical College in 1882 and professor of medicine there from 1884-1903, during which time he was also attending physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital. His fondness for books led to his appointment as librarian of the Med- ical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland from 1870-71, and again from 1880-87. During part of this time he was co-editor with Dr. T. A. Ashby (q. V.) of the Maryland Medical Jour- nal. He was president and chief worker of the Hospital Relief Association, and one of the founders of the Home for Incurables, and also of the Home for Widows and Orphans of Physicians. He was president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club 1902-04, and president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1903-04. He took an active part in lengthening the course of in- struction from two to three years and in bring- ing about the examination for preliminary education of medical students and the forma- tion of the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 1903 he was elected professor of the history of medicine in the University of Maryland, and editor of Old Maryland and held both these positions until his death. Cor- dell's chief work was as a medical historiog- rapher and his most important work was the "Medical Annals of Maryland" which was the centennial volume of the Medical and Chirurgi- cal Faculty of Maryland, published in 1903, a book of inestimable value in the history of tnedicine in that state. He contributed many other articles, among which may be mentioned : "Historical Sketch of the University of Mary- land, 1809-90," and a second edition in two vol- umes in 1907 ; "The Medicine and Doctors of Horace," Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Baltimore, 1901, vol. xii, 233-40; "The Medicine and Doctors of Juvenal," Medical Library and Historical Journal, Brooklyn, 1903, vol I, 8-17; also Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Baltimore, 1903, vol xiv, 283-87 ; "Aretaeus the Cappadocian," Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulle- tin, Baltimore, 1909, vol. xx, 371-77; "Library of a Colonial Physician," an account of the li- brary owned by Upton Scott, Old Maryland, Baltimore, 1912, vol. viii, 98-101. The article on Horace is one of extraor- dinary interest. Cordell was unusually well versed in the classics, and though largely self- taught, one of the best Latin scholars in Bal- timore. His knowledge of local medical his- tory was remarkable. He was a man of large stature and well proportioned, with a rather commanding pres- ence and a somewhat reserved manner tem- pered with old fashioned courtesy. He lacked to some degree the aggressiveness which seems to be necessary to great material success and he never enjoyed the full measure of reward for his labors. He was a man with the high- est moral code, overstrict in his observance of medical ethics and, to a certain degree, an idealist. He gave much of his time and work to the furthering of medical education, medical charities, and medical social work. He was a friend to the poor and oppressed, of a most charitable nature. By disposition a bookworm, he spent much of his time in study and in historical research. John Ruhrah. A Sketch of His Life, by Randolph Winslow. Bulletin of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, January, 1914. Personal Reminiscences of Dr. E. F. Cordell, by Dr. T. A. Ashby, Ibid. Some of the Writings of the late Eugene Fauntle- roy Cordell, by Henry M. Hurd, Ibid. Cornell, William Mason (1802-1895) William Mason Cornell, clergyman, phy- sician and author, was born at Berkley, Massa- chusetts, October 16, 1802, and died at Bos- ton, the same state, April, 1895. He was edu- cated at Brown University where he received an A. B. in 1827. He studied for the min- istry and was ordained a congregational min- ister in 1830 and the next year was settled as pastor at Woodstock, Connecticut. After three years he moved to another parish at Quincy, Mass., where he stayed five years. His health failing, Dr. Cornell entered the Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield and graduated M. D. in 1844, settling in Bostcm where he practised medicine and wrote for the rest of his life. He joined the Massachusetts Medical Society; during two years, 1846-1848, he was editor of the Journal of Health; and later, 1863-1865, he edited the Union Monthly and Journal of Health. Some of his writings are: "Grammar of the English Language" ; "Consumption Forestalled and Prevented, 1846" ; "Ship and Shore Phy- sician and Surgeon, 1865"; "Life and Career of Horace Greeley, 1872"; "How to Enjoy Life, 1873" ; "History of Pennsylvania, 1876" ; "Lives of Clergymen, Physicians and Eminent Busi- ness Men of the 19th Century, 1881." He edited the memoir and eulogies of Charles Sumner in 1874. Columbian College gave Dr. Cornell an