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NAME GOODMAN 450 GOODMAN an anesthetic and with only neighbors for assistants. We know that Nathan Smith (q. v.), as a boy, volunteered to hold a leg for him during an amputation at Chester, Vermont, with the result of interesting Nathan in the art of surgery. The operator of the eighteenth century needed steady nerves and greater re- sourcefulness than the operator of today, who has an inert patient in charge of an anes- thetist, and at his command every mechanical contrivance plus a trained corps of assistants. Dr. Goodhue published only a few papers, one of them appearing in the Medical Recorder, Philadelphia, 1829, vol. xvi, 139-142, being an account of his method of reducing and re- taining ill position a fractured thigh, and an- other, a case of fractured skull in a child, where a portion of the brain substance escaped and the child recovered. When prosperity came to him he procured the books of the best authors, and kept abreast with the advances of surgical knowledge. Punctuality was with him a hobby and he made it a point to reach a consultation on time. He married early in life and had a family of eight children, the oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marrying Dr. Amos Twitchell (q. v.), of Keene, N. H., at whose house he died of pros- tatic disease, when seventy years old, Sep- tember 9, 1829. Walter L. Burrage. Amer. Med. Biog., S. W. Williams. 1845, 201-213. An Inaug. Address, Josiah Goodhue, Pittsfield, 1823. Goodman, Henry Ernest (1836-1896) Henry Ernest Goodman, a founder of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital, was born at Speedwell, Philadelphia, at one time a suburb • of that city near the Lime Kiln Pike, April 12, 1836. His father was Henry and his mother, Maria Ernest Goodman. Henry graduated from the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1859 and was appointed an interne at the Philadelphia General Hospital (Blockley) ; on completing his term he received an ap- pointment as interne at the Wills Eye Hos- pital, where he became interested in the spe- cialty to which he devoted the greater part of his time, in after life. His civil war rec- ord was: "July 23, 1861, major and surgeon of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry; discharged for appointment in U. S. Volunteers, April 19, 1864; first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, February 26, 1863; major and surgeon. May 18, 1864; lieutenant-colonel and medical director, U. S. Volunteers (by assignment), February 25, 1865, to April 1, 1865; breveted lieutenant-colonel and colonel U. S. Vols., March 13, 1865, for "faithful and meritorious service during the war ;" resigned honorably discharged November 3, 1865. In 1866 he was made U. S. examining sur- geon for pensions; from 1866 to 1873 he was the port physician at Philadelphia. The year 1868 was spent in visiting the European hospitals and in attending the international ophthalmological congress at Heidelberg. Dr. Goodman's chief merit is that of having been one of the founders of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital, and he was one of the surgeons and the secretary of the medical staff, a position he held until his death. He was also one of the founders of the Pennsyl- vania State Hospital for Women. In 1872 he was appointed an attending sur- geon at the Wills Eye Hospital ; surgeon to the out-patient department of the Pennsyl- vania Hospital; attending surgeon to the Pres- byterian Hospital. From 1881 to 1882 he was professor of surgery at the Medico-Chirurgical College; from 1885 to 1891 professor of the principles and practice of surgery, orthopedic and clinical surgery, Medico-Chirurgical Col- lege; 1891 emeritus professor of surgery, Medico-Chirurgical College. In 1874 he married the widow of John White Geary, a former governor of the State of Pennsylvania, and on February 3, 1896, while running for a train, at Tioga station. Dr. Good- man fell dead. John Welsh Croskey. Phys. and Surgs. of U. S., W. B. Atkinson, Phila., 1878 137-8 Trans.' Coll. Phys., Phila., 1897, vol. xix. Goodman, John (1837-1912) John Goodman, obstetrician of Louisville, Kentucky, was born in Frankfort, that state, July Z2, 1837, the son of John and Jane Good- man. His preliminary education was received at Georgetown College, Kentucky, graduating in 1856, and his medical education at Tulane University, New Orleans, where he took his M. D. in 1859. This year he married Carrie D. Miller of Louisville. He practised all his life in Louisville. The year after graduation he was demonstrator of anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medi- cine and in 1868 he was appointed professor of obstetrics in the Louisville Medical Col- lege, after 1875 filling the same chair in the first-named institution. He was an organizer and an original mem- ber of the Louisville board of health ; for a quarter of a century he was physician to the Louisville Industrial Home for Reform. His titles include : "A New Method of