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 post he held for two years, and while there studied bacteriology in the hygienic laboratory of the Marine Hospital Service.

In 1901 he came to New York and entered the clinic of Dr. Knapp, and in 1902 went to Cuba and graduated at the University of Havana. Here it was, in 1902, after fourteen years of preparation of the most searching character, that he first entered upon actual practice, yet, in a few months, when the State Board of Health of Florida opened a bacteriological laboratory in Jacksonville its offered directorship was accepted. Here he remained until his death, September 20, 1906. He married in 1905, Mary McLaughlin, the youngest daughter of Major McLaughlin of Jacksonville, and was survived by the wife and a little son.

The thoroughness with which he did all his work will be best shown by the fact that he had studied medicine fourteen years before he began to practise and graduated from no fewer than four colleges and attended clinics in five different countries. He was a fluent speaker and well versed in the literature of all modern languages, a classical scholar and had a broad knowledge of the history of the world. He was the first to discover the existence of Malta fever in Venezuela. After returning home from Washington, in 1897, with Dr. B. Mosquera, he worked up a number of cases of Malta fever (Graceta Medica, Caracas, July 15, 1898), thus demonstrating for the first time the existence of this disease on the American Continent. Dr. Andrade furnished the inspiration, and those who knew his enthusiastic and indefatigable zeal cannot escape the conviction that he did a liberal share of the work, though in the report he is only ranked as assistant. The custom of the country and his own innate modesty kept him from getting proper credit.

He was the first to find and report a case of filariasis in the state of Florida. Though his practice was chiefly in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, his heart was in bacteriology.

A loyal friend, a genial companion, and a sparkling conversationalist, he had a keen sense of humor and enjoyed a good story.

For months he knew that a disease which held out no hope of cure was slowly but surely killing him, but he nevertheless attended as assiduously to his duties in behalf of suffering humanity as physical pain would permit.

Andrews, Edmund (1824–1904)

Edmund Andrews, physician, was one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and also of the Northwestern University Medical School. In Mercy Hospital, the institution in which he and his two sons did so much earnest and conscientious surgical work, he suddenly passed away on the twenty-second day of January, 1904. Edmund Andrews had been engaged in surgical work in Chicago for forty-eight years. He was born in Putney, Vermont, of sturdy New England stock, on April 22, 1821. Removing in 1840 to Detroit, Michigan, he completed his literary studies in the University of Michigan, graduating in 1849. Three years later he finished his medical course in the University of Michigan and went to Chicago. In 1855 he became a professor at Rush Medical College, which then maintained a course of two years. Dissatisfied with this brief course, he severed his connections with Rush, and with Dr. Hosmer Johnson, N. S. Davis, W. H. Byford, Titus Delville, Ralph Isham and Dr. Rutter established the Lind University Medical School, which eventually became the medical school of the Northwestern University where for forty-six years Dr. Andrews was professor of surgery. At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed surgical chief at Camp Douglas, and later, becoming surgeon to the First Regiment of light artillery, he served in Tennessee and Mississippi. In 1854 he founded the Chicago Academy of Sciences. During his long career Dr. Andrews gave to the medical profession a number of valuable surgical instruments and devices and contributed liberally to the current medical literature, chiefly on statistical, orthopedic and operative surgery.

He married in April, 1853, Eliza, daughter of N. T. Taylor of Detroit, and had five children, two of whom, E. Wyllys and Frank Taylor, worked with their father.



Andrews, George Pierce (1838–1903).

George Pierce Andrews was born in Kailua, Hawaii, April 9, 1838, his father Dr. Seth L. Andrews, of Romeo, Michigan, being there as a medical missionary. Ill health prevented George completing his course at Andover, Massachusetts, but on recovery he studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Edmund Andrews, professor of surgery in Chicago Medical College, but took his last course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, receiving his M. D. in 1861.