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ALLEN of state sanitation and edited a periodical, called The Sanitary Visitor, in the name of the board. Thus he laid the foundation for the successful work of the board in later years.

Dr. Allen was for many years a member of the Vermont State Medical Society and was twice its president, first in 1850 and again in 1858. He had been a prominent member of the Addison County Medical Society and its treasurer and librarian from 1847 until 1859. In 1888 he became a member of the American Public Health Association. He was a member of the American Medical Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Allen was always a student. He did not specialize, but was a good all-round surgeon and physician. He had a wide reputation in Western Vermont and beyond, and his consultation practice was extensive. He acquired considerable reputation for his success in the management of Bright's disease and other dropsical affections, the essential feature of his treatment being a skim milk diet. Every case to him was an object of study and he devoted himself most unselfishly to the welfare of his patients. He was a man of few words, loyal to his profession, always a friend of the young doctor, studiously ethical and honest with all. He died suddenly at his home in Rutland on the morning of July 2, 1890, of cerebral hemorrhage.

Dr. Allen was of striking personal appearance, short in stature, and in his early days muscular and well knitted He had a large, well formed head, patriarchal gray hair and beard, prominent features and brown eyes, a face not readily forgotten.

His knowledge and reading were not confined to his profession. He was a well-read man and from the first was a prominent member of the Shakespeare Club of Rutland, which had a long and honorable career in that city. He was also a member of the Quarter Century Club of Vermont.



Allen, Charles Warrenne (1854–1906)

Charles Warrenne Allen, a dermatologist, was born at Flemington, New Jersey, December 4, 1854. He was the son of a lawyer and went as a boy to the public schools of his native place; later he was sent to the Lycée Imperiale, Nantes, and in 1875 graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire.

He began to study medicine at Harvard but received his degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1878.

In 1879–80 he studied in Vienna, Heidelberg and Paris, then in 1881 settled in New York City to practise, later devoting himself exclusively to diseases of the skin.

Shortly after his return from Europe he was appointed genito-urinary surgeon to the Charity Hospital, New York; when he resigned that position he was appointed consultant.

For many years he was physician to the department of diseases of the skin in the Essex Street Dispensary In 1900 he was appointed to the chair in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, a position he held until death.

He was dermatological consultant to the Randall's Island Hospital, New York, the Hackensack and Bayonne Hospital, New Jersey, a member of the medical societies of the state and county of New York, the New York Dermatological society and the American Dermatological Association.

He wrote "The Practitioner's Handy Book of Medical Progress" and the "Practitioner's Manual," and in collaboration with Drs. Franklin and Sterne published, in 1904, "Radiotherapy, Phototherapy, and High Frequency Currents" and was on the editorial staff of the New York Medical Record, also contributing frequently to various medical journals on dermatology.

Dr. Allen's vast experience and keen observation made him one of the most expert dermatologists in the United States; he was a ready debator and gave expression to ideas that were helpful to his confreres.

His death occurred at Genoa, May 17, 1906, while returning from the 1906 International Medical Congress.



Allen, Dudley Peter (1852–1915)

Dudley Peter Allen, of Cleveland, Ohio, surgeon, teacher, writer, and a patron of art, was born in Kinsman, Ohio, March 25, 1852. His father and his grandfather were physicians. He graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in the class of 1875 and soon thereafter entered the Harvard Medical School, and in 1879 received from it his degree of M. D. He then spent a year as surgical house officer in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and on leaving that institution went to Europe where he passed two years or more attending medical and surgical lectures and clinics in Berlin,