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NAME ENGELMANN 367 ENGLISH graduated with the valedictory in 1867, then he went for medical training to the University of Berlin, 1867-69, and to Tiibingen under von Nienieyer and von Bruns, 1869-70. A brief in- terval as volunteer surgeon under the Red Cross, in the Franco-Prussian War, followed; then further studies in Berlin, under von Lan- genbeck, Virchow, Traube, Frerichs, and Mar- tin, and he graduated in the spring of 1871, receiving the first medical diploma under the new German Empire. The years 1871-72 were spent in Vienna, mainly in the gynecologic wards of Spaeth and Braun, and in the pathologic laboratory of Rokitanski. He there received the degree of master in obstetrics, and engaged in his first important investigation on the "Mucous Membrane of the Uterus" with Dr. Kundrat, later professor of pathologic anatomy. After a winter in the hospitals of Paris and Lon- don, Dr. Engelmann returned to St. Louis in the spring of 1873 to practise in his native city, taking the position of lecturer on patho- logic anatomy in the St. Louis Medical College. He entered with zest upon his work, took an active part in the medical life of the city, and organized the St. Louis School for Mid- wives and the Maternity Hospital in 1874. After recovery from a nearly fatal sepsis ac- quired in December, 1878, he gave up a labor- ious general practice and devoted himself en- tirely to diseases of women, in which he had been always most interested. .■mong many of his papers may be men- tioned: "The Health of the American Girl" Presidential Address (Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society, 1890) ; "The Men- strual Function as Influenced by Modern Meth- ods of Training, Mental and Physical," Presi- dential Address, American Gynecological Society, 1900; "The Age of First Menstrua- tion on the North American Continent" (Transactions of the American Gynecological Society, 1901) ; "The Age of First Menstrua- tion at Pole and Equator" (American Gyn- ecology, March, 1903) ; "The Cause of Race Decline is not Education" (Popular Scioice Monthly, June, 1903). Archeologic researches in the interest of the St. Louis Academy of Science, in the swamp- lands of southeast Missouri, added much of interest to the society's museum, and formed the basis for his own private collection, one of the most important in the West, to which ex- changes with the museums of Washington, Berlin, and Vienna added greatly. On remov- ing to Boston in 1895, the larger part of his collection of Missouri flints and pottery from the mounds, was given to the Peabody Mu- seum of Archeology in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Englemann was professor of diseases of women and operative midwifery, Missouri Medical College and St. Louis Post-graduate School of Medicine ; president American Gyn- ecological Society, 1900; president Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society, 1890; president St. Louis Obstetrical and Gynecolog- ical Society, 1887-89; Fellow, London Obstet- rical Society, British Gynecological Society, Boston Obstetrical Society; member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and Medical Society of the State of New York. He married, in 1879, Emily Engelmann, who died after a long illness in 1890, and in 1893 he married Mrs. Loula Clark, removing to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1895, where he died November 16, 1903. Joseph Tabor Johnson. From an address by Dr. Joseph T. Johnson, Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc, 1904. Trans. Southern Surg, and Gyncc. Assoc, 1903, vol. xvi. L. S. McMurtry. Portrait. English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902). Thomas Dunn English, remembered abroad as well as in America as the author of "Ben Bolt," was a physician and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote the "M. D." on his title-page, and practised medi- cine, although literature claimed most of his time. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 29. 1819, son of Robert English ; his mother, before her marriage, was Miss Kemp- stone. He was descended from Joseph Eng- lish, who became a Quaker through William Penn, and with his brother, Henry, left Ireland for Gloucestershire, England, was admitted to the Society of Friends, and in 1682 came to America. He had grants of land in New Jer- sey and in Pennsylvania, and his descendents became identified with this country. Thomas was educated at Wilson's Academy, Philadelphia, and the Friend's Academy, Bur- lington, New Jersey, and with private tutors ; in 1836 he entered the University of Pennsyl- vania to study medicine, and graduated in 1839 with a thesis on "Phrenology." He was at- tracted to journalism, and at the age of sixteen had written for Philadelphia journals, and continued to write fluently and voluminou.-ly, and one day found himself famous because of his touching lines, "Ben Bolt." N, P. Willis had asked him to write a sea song to be pub- lished in Willis's New York Mirror; but English, instead, sent him the poem, beginning: