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GREGORY and autumn of 1864 and returning to Boston was house physician in the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1865 and 1866 after graduating from the medical school he spent a year in Vienna, and in October, 1867, began to practise medicine in Boston. He gave his greatest attention to skin diseases and syphilis from the first and in the later years of his practice was regarded as an authority on genito-urinary diseases and syphilis. He was clinical instructor in syphilis in the Harvard Medical School from 1875 to 1895. He was in charge of the department of skin and venereal diseases of the Boston Dispensary from 1873 to 1900. At one time he was surgeon to the Carney Hospital (1868–1876), also to St. Joseph's Home, and physician to the Children's Hospital.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and other societies. His tall, commanding presence was a familiar figure on the streets of Boston for thirty years.

Dr. Greenough never married and retired from active practice several years before his death, which occurred in Brookline, Massachusetts, October 16, 1904.

Among his writings are: "Treatment of Permanent Urethral Stricture," Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. lxxvii, 164; "Pediculi Vestamentorum," ibid, vol. lxxvii, 221; "Gonorrheal Rheumatism," ibid., vol. lxxvii, 411.



Gregory, Elisha Hall (1824–1906)

Elisha Hall Gregory, of St. Louis, was born near Russellville, Kentucky, September 10, 1824, and died of heart disease at Ormond, Florida, February 11, 1906. He was president of the St. Louis Medical Society in 1863 and of the American Medical Association in 1886 and was a medical educator and surgeon of note.

Educated in the common schools of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Booneville, Missouri, he studied medicine with Dr. F. W. G. Thomas, practised several years, entered the medical department of St. Louis University, and graduated in 1849. After two more years of practice he became demonstrator of anatomy to his alma mater and in 1852 professor of anatomy, holding the position until 1867 when he became professor of surgery. When the medical department of Washington University was created he had a large share in bringing about the merger of the Missouri Medical College and the St. Louis Medical College that went to form the new medical department. As a teacher of both anatomy and surgery he was preeminent, in the opinion of his pupils. He was at one time president of the Missouri state board of health and was president of the state medical society. For fifty years he was surgeon in chief to the Sisters and Mullanphy hospitals, there controlling a large amount of surgical material. His personality endeared him to all. A manly man, he knew and maintained his rights while at the same time regardful of the rights of others.



Griffin, Corbin (17—–1813)

Corbin Griffin was the son of Leroy Griffin of Lancaster County, Virginia, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Joseph Bertrand, a French refugee, and was born in Lancaster, the year of his birth not being known.

He received a good classical education, and studied medicine at and graduated from the University of Edinburgh. A copy of his thesis, which was published, is in the Toner collection in the Surgeon-General's Library.

Afterwards he settled and practised in Yorktown, Virginia. In the Revolution, or at least in the first years of the war, he served as state surgeon, being first in the navy and later in the hospital at Yorktown. In May, 1779, he was a member of the Virginia Senate, having been elected for three years. After the war he continued to practise at Yorktown until his death.

He married Elizabeth Berkeley and had one son who married his cousin, Mary, daughter of the Hon. Cyrus Griffin, last president of the Continental Congress.

Dr. Griffin died September 1, 1813.



Griffin, Ezra Leonard (1821–1892)

Ezra Leonard Griffin, son of Eben and Susannah Lewis Griffin, was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, September 21, 1821, his mother a Bostonian, his father a native of Gloucester.

He received his academic education at Kimball Union Academy and entered Dartmouth College in 1844. While there his health failed and forced him to abandon his preparation for the ministry, which had been his choice. He left Dartmouth at the close of his sophomore