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HAINES friends. That he was liberal, at least with his family, his letters show. In most of them he mentions enclosing ten, twenty or more dollars. He had a large library for those days, though books on chemistry and encyclopedias were said to predominate. Still, works of fiction were present. He considered that the library was for the use of the family, and there were no restrictions, even on the children, as to what they should read. His granddaughter says that the only rule she remembers the Doctor was particular about was that no one should turn down the leaves of the books.

The Doctor gradually gave up the practice of medicine, and during the latter years of his life practised very little, though he would take a case now and then.

In his later years he had to face adversity. Sacketts depended for its prosperity upon its importance as a lake port as well as its proximity to the garrison. The railroad was now pushing its way into the north country, and commerce turned from the lake route to the new channel. This of course affected Sacketts adversely, and undoubtedly contributed to the decline of the fortunes of the Doctor and his sons. The son who died in Mexico left his affairs in bad shape, and the other one failed for $50,000, a large sum for those days. The Doctor evidently faced the situation philosophically, for in his letters there is no complaining. Instead he took a hopeful view of life, and made plans for his future activities.

It was in this frame of mind that he died, October 19, 1848.



Haines, Job (1791–1860).

Job Haines was born in New Jersey, October 28, 1791, and had his degree of A. B. from Princeton College. He attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania with the class of 1815, but left before graduation.

Seeking a career in the far West he finally made choice of Dayton, Ohio, for a permanent home (January, 1817), where his culture and strong personality gained him early recognition. He was deeply religious, and while he never offensively obtruded his belief, it was no unusual thing for him to close a professional visit with a Bible reading or short prayer. In a day when the sturdy pioneers considered whiskey one of the staples of life in this ague-stricken region, Dr. Haines was the head and front of all anti-liquor leagues, and never lost an opportunity to preach the gospel of temperance.

The Dayton Public Library contains his diary for the years 1816 to 1820. It is valuable as an index to the medical practice of his time, but the daily routine of bleeding, catharsis blistering and sweating therein recorded is appalling to a twentieth century practitioner. In a case of meningitis, 120 grains of calomel were given in the twenty-four hours.

On the twenty-fifth day of the same illness the entry reads: "She continues to take twenty to forty grains of calomel per day, which is neither sufficient to keep the bowels open or to produce ptyalism," and yet, in addition, "calomel was frequently rubbed on the gums and mercurial ointment on the skin." These clinical records show that in those days the lancet was seldom sheathed, and recall the trenchant sarcasm of Boileau, slightly paraphrased:	"The one died empty of blood, the other full of calomel."

Dr. Haines held various municipal and county offices, and was mayor of the town in 1833, known as the cholera year, when his official acts did much to restore confidence to the panic-stricken people.

He died in July, 1860.



Hale, Enoch (1790–1848).

Enoch Hale was born in West Hampton, Massachusetts, January 19, 1790. His father, of the same name, was the first minister of West Hampton. In early life his health was poor, he having a cough with hemoptysis. He went to New Haven, Connecticut, where he attended 's (q. v.) lectures and devoted himself to the study of chemistry, later studying medicine with Dr. Hooker of his native town and then removing to Boston to continue these studies with (q. v.) and  (q. v.) He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1813, with an inaugural dissertation on "Experiments on the Production of Animal Heat by Respiration." It was published and called forth a rejoinder from Sir Benjamin Brodie, in the columns of the London Medical and Physical Journal.

Hale settled in Gardiner, Maine, where he had a friend, (q. v.), a learned English gentleman and recent settler in Gardiner, having a large acquaintance