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NAME CRAIK 258 CRANE Washington was again summoned to lead the army. But he made the appointment of Craik as the head of the medical department one of the conditions of his own acceptance of the command, and the latter was duly commis- sioned physician-general, retaining the office until the army was disbanded in 1800. Some months before the official severing of his rela- tions with the military establishment, however, he had returned to his Virginian home where he was soon called upon to attend his old friend in that illness which, on December 14, 1799, deprived the country of its most illus- trious citizen. Craik survived him fifteen years, a time passed partly in active practice and at the last in retirement. He died in Fairfax County, Virginia, Febru- ary 6, 1814. Lewis Stephen Pilcher. Life of Washington, W. Irving. Amer. Med. Biog., J. Tbacher, 1828. Med. Men of the Revolution, J. M. Toner, 1876. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, 1904, vol. xiv. Portrait. Surgeon-generals of the United States Army, J. E. Pilcher. Carlisle, Pa., 1905. Portrait. Craik, Robert (1829-1907) Robert Craik was dean of the medical faculty of McGill University from 1889 to 1901 and directed its affairs during that im- portant period. He was professor of clinical surgery from 1860 to 1867 ; professor of chem- istry from 1867 to 1879; professor of hygiene from 1889 till 1902, holding the minor posi- tions of demonstrator of anatomy in 1856, curator of the museum in 1859, and registrar in 1869. He entered the Montreal General Hospital in 1854 as house surgeon, and after six years' service was appointed attending physician in 1860. Beginning as a student in McGill University, and graduating with hon- ors at the head of his class in 1854, his con- nection with it, as student, teacher, and gov- ernor, was continuous and close until his death on June 28, 1907. He was a member of the Quebec Board of Health and consulting physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital from 1896, and for many years was recognized as the chief family physician in Montreal, but he had interests apart from medicine. He was a man of many social graces, an excel- lent speaker, and wrote with admirable style. Dr. Craik was born near Montreal, April 22, 1829, and was in his seventy-eighth year at the time of his death, the immediate cause of which was pulmonary tuberculosis. He married in 1856, Alice, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Symmers, of Dublin, Ireland, who died childless in 1874. Andrew Macphail. Crane, Charle* Henry (1825-1883) Born at Newport, Rhode Island, July 19^ 1825, surgeon-general of the United States Army, he was a son of Col. I. B. Crane, first United States Artillery. He studied at Maple Grove Academy, Middletown, Conn., and later at Yale College, from which institution he obtained the degree of A. B. in 1844 and graduating A. M. and M. D. at Harvard Medical School in 1847, soon after enter- ing the United States Army as assistant sur- geon. He served for several years on the Pacific coast and later on in New York City. Crane rendered faithful and meritorious serv- ice during the Civil War. He was promoted to the rank of surgeon in 1861 and was med- ical director of the department of the south until 1863, in which year he was assigned to duty in the surgeon-general's office at Wash- ington. Crane was appointed surgeon-gen- eral of the United States Army July 3, 1882. He died suddenly October 10 of the following year. His portrait is in the library of the surgeon-general's office at Washington. Albert Allemann. New York Med. Jour., 1884, vol. xl. Med. News, Phila., 1883. vol. xliii. Crane, William Henry (1869-1906) William Henry Crane was born in Cincin- nati on March 17, 1869, the son of Henry L. Crane, who came to Cincinnati from New Albany, Indiana, and Harriet Lupton, of Cin- cinnati. Dr. Crane went to the public schools of Cincinnati and the University of Cincin- nati, where he received his B. S. in 1891, immediately after entering the Medical Col- lege of Ohio (the medical department of the University of Cincinnati) and graduating with high honors in 1893. For the next two years he served as interne in three of the city hos- pitals before entering on active practice. His interests had always been in the domain of natural science, and he had early taken up and pursued with particular zeal the study of chemistry. In the earlier years of practice. Dr. Crane devoted much time to original re- search along the lines of physiological chem- istry, and soon after beginning practice, was made instructor in physiological chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1898 he became professor of chemistry, a posi- tion he held up to the time of his death. In 1902 Dr. Crane took charge of the municipal laboratory of the city of Cincinnati, and dur- ing his four years there completely revolu- tionized the workings of the laboratory. His tragic death, which occurred in May, 1906, at the Academy of Medicine, happened as he was just in the act of demonstrating