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NAME FERGUSON 381 FERGUSON beth Greig of Quebec. His medical studies were begun in the Marine Hospital ; in 1846 he passed examinations in McGill University, but not being of age for passing, the con- ferring of the degree was deferred until 1847. He was a founder and a large contributor to the Canada Medical Journal, of which, also, he was editor (1864-1872), being associated with F. W. Campbell; he was editor of the Canada Medical and Surgical Journal, 1872- 1879. For two years he was demonstrator of anatomy, for eight years professor of clinical surgery, and for fifteen professor of surgery at McGill University, where he laid great stress on bedside instruction. The Museum of the Medical Faculty of McGill is a large debtor to Fenwick, particularly in the "bone room." He was full surgeon to Montreal General Hospital for twenty-five years, and much of the reputation of the hospital at home and abroad is due to his efficient work. During the Fenian raids in 1866 and 1870, Fenwick was in the Montreal Field Battery. He was president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal and in 1882 vice-president of the Canada Medical Association. In 1852 he married Miss Eliza Charlotte De Hertel, who with a daughter, Mrs. George Massey, survived him. He suffered from arterial sclerosis for some years and a cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of death, at his home in Montreal, June 26, 1894. Fenwick's brother, A. G. Fenwick, of Lon- don, Canada, who died a short time before him at the age of seventy-six, took his M. D. from McGill in 1840 and was dean of the faculty and held the chair of medical juris- prudence and toxicology in Western University and for several years was on the Medical Council at Toronto. Howard A. Kelly. Brit. Med. Jour., 1894, vol. ii. 159-160. Montreal Med. Jour.. 1894-5 vol. xxiii, 77-79. Lancet, 1894, vol. ii, 170. Cyclop. Can. Biog. G. M. Rose, Toronto, 1888. Ferguson, Alexander Hugh (1853-1911). Alexander Hugh Ferguson, Chicago sur- geon, of sturdy Scotch parentage, was born in Ontario, Canada, on February 27, 1853, and re- ceived his preliminary education at Rockwood Academy and at the Manitoba College. He graduated with honors from the Medical School of Trinity University. Toronto, in 1881, and after studying in London, Edinburgh, and Berlin, settled in Winnipeg in 1882. He was one of the founders of the Manitoba Medi- cal College of Winnipeg. For three years he was professor of physiology and histology in this institution, and for the succeeding eight years professor of surgery. During this period he was a member of the staff of the Winni- peg General Hospital, was surgeon-in-chic f at St. Boniface Hospital, and chief surgeon to the Brandon and Mordon Hospitals. In 1894 he went to Chicago as professor of sur- gery at the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. In 1900 he became pro- fessor of clinical surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago. He was surgeon to the Post-Graduate Hospital, sur- geon-in-chief to the Chicago Hospital, and sur- geon to the Cook County Hospital for the Insane. Dr. Ferguson possessed a charming, though somewhat pugnacious personality, and was a doughty advocate of the truth. He stepped almost at once into the front rank of Chicago surgeons and soon gained national prominence. As a worker he was indefatigable ; within five years of graduation articles from his pen be- gan to appear in the medical journals. Even a casual acquaintance was impressed by his mental alertness, energy and indomitable will. No other man in America had such a large experience with hydatid cysts ; many Iceland- ers went to Winnipeg for operation. An in- teresting paper on hydatids of the liver ap- peared in the Nortlnvesl Lancet, St. Paul, in 1893. He wrote over one hundred articles covering a wide range of surgical topics. He did many goitre operations, wrote on vesico- vaginal fistula, devised the cuff operation, and was much interested in cleft palate. He also wrote a large work entitled " The Modern Operation for Hernia." and at the time of his death he was engaged in writing a text-book on surgery. He was the first president of the Manitoba branch of the British Medical Association ; a fellow of the American Surgical Association ; of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; and of the Southern Sur- gical and Gynecological Association. He was also a president of the Chicago Medical So- ciety, and of the Western Surgical and Gynecological Society. In 1906 he was honored by the King of Portugal with the decoration of Commander of the Order of Christ of Portugal for his skill in surgery. In 1882 Dr. Ferguson married Sarah Jane Thomas of Nassagaweya, Ontario, with issue, two sons, Ivan and George Alexander. He suffered with diabetes and then a carbuncle on his neck from which he died. He did not seem to realize, in the midst of his work, that so