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NAME ETHERIDGE 370 EVANS was boni in Ireland, but came to this country in cliildhood. They had no children. Eskridge died in Denver, Colorado, January IS, 1902, his death being due to cerebral thrombosis, from chronic intestinal nephritis. His writings numbered over sixty papers. A tolerably full list is in the Catalogue of the Surgeon-general's Library, Washington, D. C. Samuel D. Hopkins. Etheridge, James Henry (1844-1899). James Henry Etheridge, gynecologist, was born at St. Johnsville, New York. March 20, 1844, the son of Dr. Francis B. Etheridge, a Civil War surgeon of New England stock. James studied for one year at the medical department of the University of Michigan; two years at Rush, graduating in 1869. He practised a year at Evanston, and then spent a year abroad, studying in the hospitals; on his return settling in Chicago in 1871. He was on the staff of several Chicago hospitals for many years, for a long time holding the, chair of therapeutics, materia medica, and medical jurisprudence in Rush Medical College. This chair he vacated in 1889 to take that of gynecology, succeeding Dr. William H. Byford (q. v). In 1892 he was elected to the chair of obstetrics also, and was for some time professor of gynecology in the Chicago Polyclinic, practising gynecol- ogy exclusively, after 1891. He was well known as a brilliant operator. Though a con- stant contributor to medical journals, he never wrote a book. He was a prominent member of the American Gynecological Society. He married, June 20, 1870, Harriet Elizabeth Powers, of Evanston, and had two daughters. He died in Chicago, February 9, 1899, of fibrous myocarditis. Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc. 1899. F. Henrofin. Illinois Med. Jour., vol. xlix. Bull, of Alumni, Rush Med. Coll.. 1909, vol. v. Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons, R. F. Stone, 1894. EusUs, WiUuim (17S3-182S). William Eustis, army surgeon, was born in Cambridge, June 10, 1753, and took his bachelor of arts degree at Harvard, in 1772, with highest honors. He was a pupil in medi- cine, and favorite of Dr. Joseph Warren (q. v.) viho thought highly of his ability, and had him appointed surgeon in the Massachusetts artil- lery. In the Battle of Bunker Hill he was near his heroic friend and teacher when the latter was struck down by a fatal bullet. Eustis was soon made a hospital surgeon, and went with Washington's army, to New York. He had the reputation of being a "humane, faithful and indefatigable officer." In 1786 he served in the campaign against the Indians, and later in Shay's rebellion. He then withdrew from the army. Subsequently he was successively a member of Congress, secretary of war, minis- ter to Holland, and governor of Massachu- setts, and died, while holding this office, in 1825. Harvard conferred on him the degree of A. M. in 1784, and LL. D. in 1823. While travelling about the country inspecting the fortifications, as secretary of war, Dr. Eustus was often called in consultation in difficult medical cases, as instanced in the recently published life of Dr. Lyman Spalding, page 152, where a case of consultation over a case of floating cartilages in the knee joint, is mentioned. History Medical Department, U. S. Army, H. E. Brown. Washington, 1873. Twentieth Cent. Biog. Diet. Notable Americans, Boston, 1904. Evans, John (1824-1897). John Evans, born of Quaker parents, near Waynesville, Ohio, March 9, 1824, was a son of David and Rachael Evans, the oldest of thirteen children. David had a farm of 640 acres and a general store, which he planned John should carry on ; buf John wanted to become a doctor, so with a cousin, and prob- ably with his mother's secret approval, he went to Philadelphia, to Clermont Academy, and be- gan to study medicine there, but graduated at the medical department of Cincinnati Col- lege, March 3, 1838. He received his diploma from his college, and from his father, a pony, with saddle and bridle, and ten dollars ; thus equipped he rode off to Indiana, and into Illinois to hunt a practice. After a year he settled at Attica, Indiana, where he became interested in the insane, and for nearly ten years he labored to secure Indiana's first in- sane hospital. In 1844 he was made superin- tendent, and designed and directed the erection of the buildings. In 1845 he became professor of obstetrics in Rush Medical College, and from '45 to '47 lectured while still maintain- ing his oversight of the unfinished hospital at Indianapolis. In 1848 he settled in Chicago, where he was editor of the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Journal, the first in Chicago (1846-1852). He wrote many editor- ials, covering a wide range, including papers on obstetrics. He invented an Obstetrical Ex- tractor, which he considered superior to for- ceps. He was an active coadjutor in the early days of the American Medical Associa- tion ; was one of the organizers of the Chicago Medical Society (1850), and of the Illinois State Medical Society (1850). He was a pro- gressive citizen, and as a member of the city