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NAME FOX 408 FOX the medical officers of the Second Brigade, N. G. S. N. y., 1887: a similar work for the use of candidates for examination, 1892, and "A Treatise on Appendicitis," 1894; enlarged edition, 1900, translated into German, 1896. His articles, presented before the various pro- fessional bodies of which he was a member, and which were subsequently published, were numerous and may be found in the Index Catalogue of the surgeon-general's office at Washington, D. C. Best known for his "ele- vated drainage posture," he was an early oper- ator for appendicitis. For twelve years prior to his death he had been working on "A Treatise on General Surgery." The work was published in March, 1906, in two octavo volumes of 725 pages each, and contained 888 original illustrations. Dr. Fowler took an active and prominent part in the work of the societies of which he was a member, attending meetings, pre- senting papers and taking part in discussions. As a member of the Joint Conference Com- mittee of the Medical Society of the State of New York and the State Medical Association, he took an important part in the negotiations between the two societies which finally led to their union, a union he lived to see ac- complished. He was also secretarj' of the Cen- tennial Celebration Committee of the Medi- cal Society of the State of New York, and during the celebration was seized with his last illness. Dr. Fowler was a member of the Protestant- Episcopal Church of the Messiah ; the Tus- can Lodge, No. 704. F. and A. M., and of the Kismet Temple Mystic Shrine. He married, June 10, 1873, Louise Rachel, daughter of James and Rachael Schrach Wells of Norristown, Pa. They had four children ; Russell Story, who graduated M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1895; George R., who died in infancy; Florence Grace; and Royal Hamilton, a graduate of the Cornell University Medical School. Dr. Fowler died of appendicitis, compli- cated with intestinal paralysis, at Albany, N. Y., February 6, 1906. RCSSELL S. FOWLKR. Fox, George (1806-1882). George Fox, inventor of an apparatus for fractured clavicle, used for over half a cen- tury, was born in Philadelphia, May 8, 180.5. His father, who died two years after his son's birth, was Samuel M. Fox, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, a manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital fl794-1707). a director of the Philadelphia Library and president of the Bank of Pennsyhania ; his grandfather was Joseph Fox, speaker of the Colonial As- sembly in 1765. He belonged to a distin- guished family of Friends. George Fox received an early education at Wylie and Engel's School, and then entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating A. B. in 1825 and M. D. in 1828, with a thesis on "Colic," in the meantime having studied medicine with his brother, Samuel M. Fox (LIniversity of Pennsylvania, 1822), and with Joseph Parrish (q. v.). The next two years he was resident pliysician in the Pennsylvania Hospital. On February 3, 1834, he was ap- pointed on the first surgical staff of the Wills Eye Hospital, serving with Isaac Parrish (q. v.), Squier Littell and Isaac Hays. In 1831 he was elected a fellow of the College of Phy- sicians, was a member of its building commit- tee, and was the prime mover in securing the site at Thirteenlli and Locust Streets. He was appointed on the medical staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1^8, resigning in 1854, giving up professional work and moving to a farm at Paoli, Chester County, Pennsylvania. In three years he removed to his estate on the Delaware River, above Tor- rcsdale, where he lived the rest of his life, spending the winters in Philadelphia. There he died, December 27, 1882. Dr. Fox married Sarah D. Valentine, of Bellefonte, in 1850, and they had four sons and two daughters ; one of the sons was Joseph M. Fox who graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1877. Med. News, 1883, vol. xlii, 24. Hist, of the Pennsylvania Hosp.. U51-1895. T. G. Morton and F. Woodbury 1895. Phys. and Surg, of the LInited States. VV. B. Atkinson, 1878. Fox, William Herrimon (1814-1883). He was born September 14, 1814, in Moate- a-Granough, in the County of West Meath, Ireland, but at the age of nineteen came to the United States with six brothers and three of his four sisters. Upon arrival he entered at once upon the study of medicine in Cleve- land, Ohio, under Dr. Robert Johnstone of that place. After finishing these studies young Fox entered Willoughby Medical College, near Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated February 21, 1839, after which he went at once to Lima, La Grange County, Indiana, where he began to practice. On December 24, 1841, he married Cornelia Raymond Averill, daughter of Mills Averill, and great-grand- daughter of Col. Benjamin Simonds of Wil-