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NAME GRAHAM 454 GRAM ada, in May, 1847, the son of Joseph G. Brampton. He received his early education in the Weston Grammar School and the Upper Canada College, and during this period showed that combination of qualities which made him distinguished in later years. He graduated from the Toronto Medical School in 1869 at the head of his class, receiving both the university and the Starr gold medals. The following year he was appointed resi- dent physician of the Brooklyn City Hos- pital. After this he was appointed surgeon without rank in the Prussian Array, a position he held throughout the Franco- Prussian War. He then engaged in post- graduate work in Vienna, after which he went to London, where he soon obtained the diploma of L. R. C. P. On July IS, 1873, he married Mary Jane, daughter of the Hon. J. C. Aikens, and set- tled down to regular practice in Toronto, where he was at once recognized as a ca- pable physician. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the visiting staff of the Toronto General Hospital, an office he held at the time of his death. After he had been in Toronto about three years he was attached to the staff of the Toronto School of Medi- cine, where he did work as demonstrator of anatomy and demonstrator of microscopy. He was for two years lecturer on chemistry, but gave this up, preferring to devote himself to clinical teaching in the General Hospital. On the reorganization of the medical faculty of the University of Toronto in 1887 he was appointed professor of clinical medicine and lecturer in dermatolog)', and in 1892 profes- sor of medicine and clinical medicine. Soon after beginning the practice erf medicine he began to pay especial attention to internal medicine and to dermatology, and was the first physician in Ontario to give up general practice and become a consulting physician. He was an active member of many medical societies : in 1887 president of the Dominion Medical Association, in 1889 president of the American Dermatological Association. He was one of the original members of the American Association of Physicians. In 1893 he left Toronto for a time, made his home in London, and took his M. R. C. P. (London). He was most interested in all of his medical associations, both in Canada and the United States, and was past president of nearly every association that he belonged to, including the Toronto Medical, the Toronto, Pathological. etc. At the time of his death he was presi- dent of the Ontario Medical Association. A frequent contributor to medical litera- ture, he also took a deep interest in mat- ters pertaining to medical education, espe- cially in its practical aspects, and exercised a wide influence as a clinical teacher, being one of the first to give systematic bedside instruction in the General Hospital. For many years he was a member of the Senate, first as representative of the Toronto School of Medicine, and afterwards of the Graduates in Medicine. Strict integrity, unvarying courtesy and kindness, steadfastness of purpose, and char- ity towards all men were his marked charac- teristics. In 1899 he went south for his health. While in Baltimore he was taken with influenza, fol- lowed by a slight pulmonary tuberculosis, which, engrafted on a system weakened by diabetes, proved rapidly fatal. He died in Muskoka, Canada, July 6, 1899, in the fifty- third year of his age, leaving a widow and four children, and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Prince A. Morrow. Gram, Hans Burch (1786-1840) Known as a pioneer of homeopathy in America, Hans Burch Gram was born in Boston in 1786. His father, a wealthy sea captain of Copenhagen, was, when a young man, secretary to the Danish West India gov- ernor and came to the United States soon after the Revolution. He was disinherited by his father for marrying a Miss Burdick, the daughter of a hotel keeper in Boston, so he remained in that city until his death in 1807. His eldest son, Hans, had been carefully educated and was already studying medicine when the death of his father compelled him to return to Denmark to look after family affairs. He obtained a portion of his father's heritage and through the favor of Prof. Fenger, his uncle and physician-in-ordinary to the king, he was placed in the Royal Medical and Surgical Institution. Within a year the king appointed him assistant-surgeon to a large military hospital. In 1814 he re- signed and settled to general practice in Copen- hagen with the highest grade of merit in the Royal Academy of Surgery. During 1823 and 1824 Gram had become acquainted with and thoroughly tested the principles of homeopathy, and it is probable that he was induced to stay in America, when he returned to see his family, in the hope