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NAME DUQUET 346 DUVAL College, where he spent three years under the tuition of the Christian Brothers. At the age of 13 he left college to assist his father on the farm, but, with a natural aptitude for study, every spare moment was devoted to his books. By the death of his parents when he was 16 years of age he was thrown on his own resources, and went to Montreal to study a profession. In 1875 he began the study of medicine, and received his degree from Vic- toria College, Montreal, in 1879. He became a general practitioner at Longue Pointe, a suburb of Montreal, and soon became well known as an exemplary citizen and capable physician. In 188.T he was appointed assistant physi- cian to the St. Jean de Dieu Asylum, better known as the Longue Pointe Asylum, and afterwards devoted himself entirely to the study and treatment of mental diseases. In 1887, upon the death of Dr. Howard, the medical superintendent, he was appointed to the vacancy by the Provincial Government, and held the position at his death. Although of a delicate constitution, he never spared himself in his untiring efforts to im- prove the condition of his patients, who num- bered fully 1,300. The severe strain from the increasing mental and physical labor con- nected with so large an institution undermined his health and rendered him unable to resist an attack of pneumonia, from which he died after an illness of eight days, on December 9, 1894, in his 40th year. The classification of mental disorders was his favorite study, and his discussion of it in the psychological section of the International. Medical Congress at Washington in 1887 was most favorably received. During the summer of 1889, Dr. Duquet made an extended tour of Europe and visited many asylums. He also attended the Interna- tional Congress on Mental Diseases in Paris in August of the same year, where he presented a paper on "Legislation Concerning Insane Asylums in the Province of Quebec." This paper, together with "Notes sur un cas de folic simule" was published in the proceed- ings of the congress. In November, 1889, he was elected an asso- ciate member of the Medico- Psychological So- ciety of Paris. In 1890 a similar honor was conferred upon him by the Societe de Medi- cine Mentale of Belgium. Dr. Duquet was married in 1884. Institutional Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada, Henry M. Hurd. 1917. Dutcher, Addison Porter (1818-1884). . A prominent physician of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Porter was born in Durham, New York, October 11, 1818. Of his early education there is no information, but in 1834 he began to study medicine under Dr. John Shanks, of New York City, and subsequently continued with Dr. Edward H. Dixon, of the same place. Atkinson says he took his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City in 1839. Dr. Dutcher's name, how- ever, does not appear among the alumni, so he graduated probably from some other medi- cal college in the metropolis. He settled first in Cooksbury, New York, but removed soon to New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and again in 1847 to Enon Valley, in the same state, where he practised for seventeen years. In 1864 he was called to the chair of the principles and practice of medicine in the Charity Hospital Medical College, at Cleveland, Ohio, a posi- tion which he filled only two years, when he resigned and devoted himself to private prac- tice and literary pursuits. In 1839 he married Amanda M. Curtis, daughter of the Hon. Richard Curtis, of New York. Dr. Dutcher was president of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine in 1868, and an honor- ary member of the Beaver County (Penn- sylvania) Medical Society, as well as a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. His contributions to medical literature are very numerous. Among them we may men- tion his treatise on "Pulmonary Tuberculosis'' (1876), and papers on "Cough and Expector- ation" (Cincinnati Medical Nnvs, vol. i, 1872), "Pain as a Symptom of Pulmonary Tuberculosis" (Ibid., pp. 153-159). He was also a warm advocate and defender of the cause of temperance. Dr. Dutcher died in Cleveland, January 30, 1884. Henry E. Handerson. New York Med. ,Tour., 1884, vol. xxxix. Physicians and Surgeons of the United States, W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Appleton's Cyclop. -mer. Biog., New York, 1887. Duval, Elias Rector (1836-1885). Elias Rector Duval was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the thirteenth of August, 1836, of distinguished pioneer parents. Dr. Duval received his early education in schools at Fort Smith and later at Arkansas College, Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he graduated A. B. in 1854. He obtained his M. D. at Jefferson Medical College. In 1853 his alma mater gave him her A. M., and in 1880 the honorary M. D. was given by the