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NAME JDRUMMOND 335 DRVSDALE Holland, and while abroad met Franklin, Jef- ferson and other noted men ; he retnrned to Providence and in 1788 moved to Ohio. He took part with General St. Clair in the treaties at Fort Harmar and gave the first anniversary oration on the settlement of Marietta (1789). After this, he was several years in Virginia and Pennsylvania to benefit his health, and in 1801 went to Foster, Rhode Island, where he spent the rest of his life cultivating his botanical garden, doing scientific and literary work, and practising. He be- came professor of botany and materia med- ica at Brown University in 1811, serving until 1834. In the Historical Introduction of the first "Pharmacopoeia of the United Stales of America, 1820," appears the following para- graph: "The Rhode Island Medical Society at their annual meeting, held on the first of September, 1818, concurred in the formation of a National Pharmacopoeia and appointed Solomon Downe, M. D., their delegate." He was active in the work of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry. With his son, William Drowne, he published "The Farmer's Guide" in 1824 ; be- sides that he held public offices and wrote scientific and literary articles for magazines. He gave several courses of botanical lec- tures and made public addresses, one of them being a "Eulogy on Washington," on February 22, 1800. He was an original member of the Rhode Island Medical Society and a member of the American ."-Vcademy of Arts and Sciences. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Russell of Boston, in 1777; they had five daughters and three sons. Drowne died at Mount Itygeia in Foster. Rhode Island, February S, 1834. Howard A. Kelly. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., New York, 1887. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of .mer- ica ( I St edition). Ili^tu^. Cnl. Blown I'niv.. 1764-1914. Prov., I')14. Drummond, WUliam Henry (1854-1907) Known equally as physician and poet, he was the son of George Drummond, an officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Eliza- beth Morris Soden. He was born at Cin-ravvn House, Leitrim County, Ireland, April 13, 1854. Educated at Mohill, Leitrim County, and at Montreal High School, he studied med- icine at Bishop's College, graduating in 1884, and was professor of medical jurisprudence, 1893. In 1894 he married May Isabel, only daughter of Dr. O. C. Harvey of Jamaica, and was survived by her and two children. Dr. Drummond retired from active prac- tice in 1905, to occupy himself with large mining interests which he had acquired in northern Ontario. An outbreak of small-pox in the camp required his presence in Cobalt, and it was while attending to his duty that he was stricken with paralysis. He died in Cobalt amid the wild scenes he loved so well, on April 6, 1907. The end came as a complete surprise to his friends. His splendid physique and fine frame, his cheerful aspect and vigorous habit of life gave promise of an old age which only the slow process of de- cay should destroy. His untimely death made a profound impression throughout Canada, and also in the United States where he was well known. The Montreal Medical Journal summed up the general feeling in the words ; "By his vision we see our compatriots in a new and kindly light. So long as men love the open life, the honorable chase of game, the smell of the earth, and the sounds of the forest, his spirit will continue to haunt the La'urentian hills, the blue lakes which Jie among them, and the swiftly flowing waters of which he sung." Better known as poet than physician, yet he practised medicine in Mon- treal for twenty-three years, and occupied a professional chair for fifteen. He was probably the most widely known of Canadian writers on account of the vogue which his verse, written in the patois of the habitant, obtained. His first volume, entitled "The Habitant," was issued in 1898, and it quickly attained a large sale. It was followed by "Madeleine Ver- cheres," "Johnny Couture," and "The Voy- ageur." His best known pieces are "The Wreck of the Julie Plante," "The Papineau Gun," and "Le Vieux-Teiups." Dr. Drum- mond had the quality of great poets in that he saw beaiaty in coiumon things, pathos in lowly life, humor in dull uniformity. The vein which he discovered was small, but it was pure and new. He discovered the French- Canadian and embodied him in literature, as well as it could be done. What Rums did for Scotland, he did for Quebec. Andrew Macphml. .Mnnlrcal Med. Jour.. May, 1907. Drysdale, Thomas (1770-1798). Thomas Drysdale, early quarantine physi- cian, was born in 1770. He was a student at St. John's College (Annapolis) from April 12, 1790, to August 11, 1790; his preceptor in medicine being Dr. George Brown of Balti- more, whom he describes as "a person, who truly combines all the merits of a professional