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NAME GLEASON 443 GLEITSMANN lesing of Port Gibson, Mississippi, and died at St. Louis when in his sixty-third year, leav- ing a widow, four sons and a daughter. St. Louis Med. Review, June, 1907. Quar. Bull. Med., Dept. Washington Univ., June, 1907. Gleason, Rachel Brooks (1820-1905) One of the early women physicians, Rachel Brooks was born in Winhall, Vermont, No- vember 27, 1820, and married a young Vermont doctor who opened an infirmary for chronic invalids in the country, shortly after acquiring his own diploma. In the management of his women patients, the young doctor often found it an advantage to be assisted by his wife as an intermediary — on the one side to obtain symp- toms, on the other to prescribe treatment. Thus the wife became gradually associated with the husband's work, while he remained generously aHve to her interests. At that time, 1849, the Philadelphia school for women had not yet opened, so Dr. Gleason, in order to secure an opportunity for his wife for some kind of systematic medical education, per- suaded the eclectics assembled in council to open the doors of their new school at Rochester, New York, to women. Mrs. Gleason died in Buffalo, New York, March 14, 1905. She had two children, one of whom, a daughter, was educated as a physician. She wrote : "Talks to my Patients, Hints on Getting Well and Keeping Well." Alfreda B. Withington. Woman's Work in America in Medicine, N. Y., 1891. Personal Information. Cleaves, Samuel Crockett (1823-1890) Physician and surgeon in the Confederate States Army, he was born in Wythe County, Virginia, October 12, 1823, and educated at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsyl- vania, graduating in 1848. He then settled in Wytheville. In 1861 he entered the service of the Con- federate States as surgeon of the forty-fifth regiment of Virginia Infantry. Later on he was made a medical director. At the end of the war he resumed practice, taking the most active interest in everything that could in any way advance the profession. The fact that he was elected a president of the state society when none but those of the very highest standing in the profession were accorded that honor speaks for itself. He was twice married ; first in September, 1849, to Maria L. Crocket of Wythe County, Virginia, and had three sons, all of whom survived their father. His first wife died in March, 1878, and in June, 1882, he married Mrs. F. D. McCaa, of Mobile, Alabama, but had no children. After a lingering illness of several months he died at his home in Wytheville, Virginia, January 14, 1890. As has been said, he was a ready writer and made numerous communications of value to medical literature. Some of them were: "Pistol Shot Wound of the Right Ileum" (Transactions of the Medical Society of Vir- ginia, 1873); "Ovarian Tumor, Fatal" (FtV- yinia Medical Monthly, vol. iii). Robert M. Slaughter. Trans. Med. Soc. of Va., 1890, p. 272. Gleitsmann, Joseph William (1841-1914) Joseph William Gleitsmann, laryngologist, was born at Bamberg, Germany, July 22, 1841, where his father was a prosperous physician. He received his early education at Bamberg and his medical education at Wuertzburg, Munich, BerHn, and Vienna; his M. D. degree was conferred at Wuertzburg in 1865. He entered the Medical Corps of the German Army, and was military surgeon in the war with Austria in 1866, receiving the order of the iron cross. In 1870 he served as surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War, and was given a "medal of honor." At the end of the war Gleitsmann became a ship's surgeon, and made several voyages. He came to the United States in 1871 and prac- tised in Baltimore until 1875, then went to Asheville, N. C, where he specialized in throat and lung diseases, and established a sana- torium. In 1881 he moved to New York City. While in Asheville he became a fellow of the American Laryngological Association. In 1885 Gleitsmann was elected professor of Laryngology and Rhinology at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School. In 1905 he was president of the American Laryngological Society. He was senior laryngologist and otologist to the German Dis- pensary and laryngologist and otologist to the German Hospital. As a member of interna- tional congresses Gleitsmann was at Berlin, 1890; Moscow, 1897; Buda Pesth, 1911. He was an active member of various American- German societies. Gleitsmann contributed many excellent ar- ticles to the literature of his specialty. In his earlier days he wrote on pulmonary tuberculosis ; later on the tuberculosis of the upper air tract, particularly in its medical and surgical aspects. He made a thorough ex-