Page:American Medical Biographies - Kelly, Burrage.djvu/330

NAME DETMOLD 308 DETWILLER after a year he established himself in Montreal where he practised until he suffered a stroke of paralysis in the fall of 1895. His death took place February 7, 1899. Becoming a member of the faculty of Laval in 1878 he occupied the chair of materia medica and served as secretary of the faculty. In 1880 he was one of the founders of Notre Dame Hospital, acted as interne and then as visiting physician. Two years later he be- cr.me editor of the Union Medicale du Canada, a position he held until 1895; from 1888 to 1895 he occupied the chair of materia medica in the College of Pharmacy. Having prepared a treatise on materia medica and therapeutics for the press, a fire destroyed the book in the printing establishment just as it was ready to appear and the work had to be begun anew. A revised work was published in 1892 and a supplement two years later. Dr. Desrosiers married his cousin, Miss Lasalle, in 1883 and they had five children, three of them surviving their father. La CHnique, Montreal, March, 1899, vol, v, 400. Portrait. Detmold, William Ludwig (1808-1894). William L. Detmold of New York City, pioneer orthopedic surgeon, was a native of Hanover, Germany, where he was born De- cember 27, 1808. After taking his doctorate in medicine at the University of Gottingen in 1830 he served as an Army surgeon until he emigrated to New York City in 1837. There he established an orthopedic clinic as early as 1841, having previously published an article on orthopedic surgery in the American Journal of The Medical Sciences, in 1837. He wrote infrequently for the medical journals and managed his dispensary until the opening of the Civil War, when he assisted in the organi- zation of the United States Army Medical Corps and, in 1862, became professor of mili- tary surgery and hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. During the war he introduced a knife and fork for one-armed men, that was supplied by the United States Government as the "Detmold knife." Detmold held his professorship until 1865 when the title was changed to "Professor of Clinical and Military Surgery." The war being over military surgery lost its prominence and Dr. Detmold was made an emeritus pro- fessor in 1866. He published a book on the treatment of club foot and analogous subjects that was one of the milestones of the pre-Listerian epochs of orthopedics. In 1884 he was a founder and the first president of the New York County Medical Association. At one time he was president of the Medical Relief Fund for Widows and Orphans. His death from paralysis occurred at his home in New York, December 26, 1894, one day before his eighty-seventh birthday. New York Med. Record, 1895, vol. xlvii, 22-23. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1895, vol. xxiv, 101. -Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Detwiller, Henry (1795-1887). Henry Detwiller, a convert to homeopathy after twenty years in practice, was also a natural scientist. He was born in Langenbruck, County Basel, Switzerland, December 13, 1795, beginning to study medicine when only fifteen under Dr. Laurentius Senor and ma- triculating at the University of Freiburg. Being very fond of natural science he was seized with a desire to explore the regions of America, so left Basel in 1817 and acted as ship's doctor to several hundred emigrants who went as far as Amsterdam. Passing an examination at the medical board there he obtained the same post on the John of Bal- timore, taking over some four hundred emi- grants to Boston. A prolongation of the voy- age round Bermuda in July heat brought on sickness, and when Philadelphia was reached Detwiller was left there in charge of the quarantined vessel and of another in like plight. While in Philadelphia he became ac- quainted with a French physician. Dr. Mon- ges, and was often called in consultation for the family of General Vaudame and other French refugees. On his advice, added to that of Joseph Bonaparte, he settled in Pennsyl- vania, choosing AUentown, then having moved, to Hellertown, Pennsylvania, he began seven years later to practise homeopathy. In 1836 he revisited his alma mater and took the de- gree which his youth had prevented his tak- ing before going to America. Dulring his long residence at Hellertown he found time for natural history and collected his "Flora Sauconensis" chiefly from the upper and low- er Saucon. His ornithological specimens, the mammals, reptilias, cheloniae, etc., represent nearly the whole fauna of Pennsylvania. The greater part was donated to public institu- tions and museums in Europe, especially the University of Basel. He was one of the or- ganizers of the American Institute of Home- opathy and assisted in forming the Pennsyl- vania State Homeopathic Society. He died at Easton, Pennsylvania, where he had practised over thirty years, an old man, being ninety-two. His wife, whom he