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HARRIS and of the uterus by the horns of cattle had resulted in the delivery of a living child. He published a paper in the American Journal of Obstetrics (1887), entitled "Laceration of the Abdomen and Uterus in Pregnant Women," which gave nine cases of cow-horn delivery with five living children, and in 1892 another "Abdominal and Uterine Tolerance in Pregnant Women," giving eleven more cases— "a better showing for the cow horn than the knife," as he remarked.

Another valuable statistical object was collecting the fate of all the viable extrauterine children. A statistical paper on "Ectopic Gestation" involved him in an imbroglio with Lawson Tait who called him "a library surgeon." This paper was translated into German by A. Eidman of Frankfürt-on-Main and appeared in the Monatschrift für Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie for August, 1897. Many of the editorials in the Medical News (Philadelphia) were from his pen. He took up Loretta's operation for divulsion of the pylorus. He edited "Playfair's Midwifery" in this country for Lea Brothers. The last article he wrote, "Congenital Absence of the Penis with the Urethra making its Exit into or below the Rectum," appeared in the Philadelphia Medical Journal for January, 1893.

In February of 1899 he had a second stroke of paralysis following one in 1895, and he died after a few days' illness in his seventy-seventh year. His income was always rather slender and he never married or kept a house but boarded out.

Besides his private value as a firm friend and Christian he is entitled to great respect and admiration as a man who investigated knowledge accumulated in the past and placed all that was valuable in it at the service of others.



Harris, Thaddeus William (1795–1856).

Thaddeus William Harris, physician, botanist and entomologist, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, November 12, 1795. He was the son of Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768– 1842), a minister and descendant of William Harris, who came to this country with Roger Williams, and was author of "Journal of a Tour of the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains" (1805); "A Natural History of the Bible" (1821); and "Biographical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe" (1841).

Thaddeus William Harris graduated at Harvard University in 1815, received his A.M., in course and his M. D. in 1820; he practised at Milton Hill. In 1831 he was made instructor in botany and entomology at Harvard, also holding the position of librarian. In 1837 he became commissioner for the Zoological and Botanical Survey of Massachusetts and collected specimens and made a catalogue of insects common to Massachusetts, showing 2,350 different species. He was author of "A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts Injurious to Vegetation" (Cambridge, 1841); a second impression was published in 1842 and a new and enlarged edition appeared in 1852.

He organized the Harvard Students' Natural History Society. His death occurred at Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 16, 1856. His son, William Thaddeus Harris (1826– 1854), graduated at Harvard University in 1846; he edited Hubbard's "History of New England," and published "Epitaphs from the Old Burying-Ground at Cambridge"; the son died at the age of twenty-eight.



Harrison, John Pollard (1796–1849).

John Pollard Harrison, physician, teacher and writer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5, 1796, a son of Maj. John Harrison, of Virginia, an officer in the Revolutionary War; his mother, Mary Ann Johnson, a daughter of Benjamin Johnson, sixth and youngest son of Sir William Johnson, Bart.

He received his early education from the Rev. John Todd, a Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. When about fifteen he began the study of medicine with Dr. John Crogan and in 1817 went to Philadelphia to attend the medical lectures of the University of Pennsylvania, and studied under Drs. Chapman and Dewees. In April, 1819, he received his M. D. from the university and began practice immediately in Louisville. In 1820 he married Miss Mary T. Warner of Philadelphia.

In 1820 the Louisville Hospital was founded. Dr. Harrison was one of the attending physicians, and there began his career as a teacher. In 1835 he removed to Philadelphia, where he published a volume of medical essays. During that year also he was elected professor of materia medica in the Cincinnati College, his associates being Daniel Drake, S. D. Gross, and others of note.

In 1841 he was elected professor of