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ANDERSON the Tonsils" (1831); and "Surgical Essays and Cases in Surgery" (1849).

Anderson's friendship for Valentine Mott is strongly expressed in the dedication to his "Surgical Anatomy" as follows: "Dedication to Valentine, professor of surgery in the University of the State of New York, whose private life is to his credit as a man; whose liberal motives and honourable endeavours to improve his profession, are an example to his brethren, and whose acquirements in the several departments of scientific and practical surgery, are an honour to his country, this volume is presented in testimony of the esteem, respect, and friendship of the author."

The work containing this interesting dedication is: "System of Surgical Anatomy. Part first, on the Structure of the Groin, Pelvis, and Perineum, as Connected with Inguinal and Femoral Hernia; Tying the Iliac Arteries; and the Operation of Lithotomy" (1823). Nine plates are a feature of the book, as four are made by Asher Brown Durand (1886– 1896), and all of them engraved by him. As examples of Durand's work (he was apprenticed to the engraver, Peter Maverick, in 1812) these plates are notable; four of the plates were made by Benjamin A. Vitry who later went to study medicine in Paris, of him Dr. Anderson says: "I think much is to be expected from him from the talent he has evinced in this department of the fine arts." Anderson declared his purpose was to "continue the subject of surgical Anatomy yearly until a Series shall be completed," but this seems not to have been carried out. He instructed his students that "the surgeon be the medical philosopher; he must be the complete physician, he must have the brain of a man of science; for this is the great and high qualification that the operator should possess; he must know when to operate as well as how to operate; and he must be able moreover to anticipate the issue of his patient's case."

He edited John Shaw's "Manual for the Student of Anatomy," the "First American from the Last London edition" (1825).

He edited an edition of Samuel Cooper's "Dictionary of Surgery" (1823), and wrote an appendix to each of the two volumes, giving as one reason the omission in Cooper's work of "some brilliant surgical achievements, that have their origin on this side of the Atlantic."

In 1837 he is shown as being active in the endeavor to establish a hospital in New York, writing to Mayor Aaron Clark of the city a "Project for the Foundation of an Hospital, to Be Called the Samaritan, Proposed to Be Attached to the Medical. Department of the University of the City of New York..." (City Document, August 18, 1837, pp. 287–388.)



Anderson, Winslow (1860–1917)

Winslow Anderson, surgeon of San Francisco, was born in Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts, in 1860.

He had a collegiate education before graduating from the Medical Department of the University of California in 1884. After graduation he went to London, where he became L. R. C. P. and M. R. C. P., Lond., 1891; M. R. C. S., England, 1891; L. S. A., Lond., 1891. He had been a member of the General Medical Council of Great Britain since 1896, and he was a fellow of the American Medical Association.

Anderson was president and professor of gynecology and abdominal surgery at the College of Physicians in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911; and emeritus professor since that time; founder of and surgeon-in-chief at St. Winifred's Hospital since 1899; surgeon to the Sierra Railway, 1904–7; abdominal surgeon and gynecologist to the city and county hospitals, 1905.

During the years 1893–7 and 1900–03 he was a member of the California State Board of Health, and he was an ex-member of the Board of Medical Examiners of California. He was surgeon-general of the National Board of California, 1900–01 and 1907–1911.

From 1890–1911 he was editor of the Pacific Medical Journal; he wrote on diseases of the lungs for the "20th Century Practice of Medicine."

In 1890 he married Bertha Lillian Collins.

He died in New York City, May 7, 1917, aged fifty-seven years.



Andrade, Eduardo Penny (1872–1906)

The son of Jose and Eliza Penny Andrade and grandson of Gen. Jose E. Andrade, Eduardo was born at Maracaibo, February 2, 1872, and educated and brought up there.

He began the study of medicine in the National College of Maracaibo in 1888 and the next year continued them in the University of Caracas, finally graduating from Georgetown University in 1895.

About this time he was appointed a member of the Venezuela Legation at Washington, a