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HARRISON medica and lecturer on pathology in the Medical College of Ohio, and in 1847 was transferred to the chair of theory and practice of medicine, a chair he occupied until the time of his death.

Dr. Harrison acquired distinction as a writer for medical journals.

The "Proceedings" of the Medical Convention of Ohio for 1841 contain two articles from the pen of Dr. Harrison: "Diseases induced by Mercury" and the "Address on Medical Education." In 1844–5 he published his great work on "The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics."

He was on the staff of the Commercial (later Cincinnati) Hospital and vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1849.

In 1847 Dr. Harrison became associate editor, with (q. v.), of the Western Lancet.

He died in Cincinnati, of cholera, September 2, 1849. His wife and six children survived him.



Harrison, Samuel Alexander (1822–1890).

Samuel A. Harrison, physician and historian of Talbot County, Maryland, born at Clay's Hope farm in Saint Michael's district, Maryland, on October 10, 1822, was the son of Alexander Bradford Harrison and Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Perry Spencer, of Spencer Hall.

He graduated at Dickinson College in 1840, at the age of eighteen, then studied medicine at the University of Maryland, where he received his diploma in 1842. He began to practise, but impaired health induced him to relinquish this and to seek benefit in St. Louis, Missouri, where he engaged in business. He declared that he had "little faith in medicine but great faith in surgery." In a few years he returned to Maryland and after a brief residence in Baltimore, moved to Talbot County, where he devoted himself to agriculture and literary work. From 1864 to 1867 he was superintendent of public schools in Talbot County.

Dr. Harrison's research and study of the history of the Eastern Shore section of Maryland resulted in numerous historical papers read before the Maryland Historical Society, and afterwards published by it. His writings on Talbot County, including Queen Anne's County and the western half of Caroline County, formerly part of Talbot, "comprise a concise and critical history"; they are used largely in the "History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661–1861," by Oswald Tilghman (Baltimore, 1915), which bears on its title-page the legend, "Compiled principally from the literary relics of the late Samuel Alexander Harrison." Dr. Harrison's portrait forms the frontispiece to the book. In 1847 he married Martha Isabel, daughter of Benjamin Denny; his second wife was Mary Ann Rhodes, who survived him nineteen years. He had two daughters. One of them married Colonel Oswald Tilghman.

Among his historical manuscripts is a "History of the Church of England, and the Protestant Episcopal Church in Talbot." His manuscripts and scrapbooks are now deposited in the Maryland Historical Society.

Dr. Harrison died at "Foxley," the home of Colonel Tilghman, on May 29, 1890.



Hartley, Frank (1856–1913).

Frank Hartley, surgeon of New York, was born June 10, 1856, in Washington, D. C. His father, John Fairfield Hartley, was assistant secretary of the treasury of the United States; both father and mother came from Maine. Frank attended the public schools of Washington and entered the Emerson Institute, where he was prepared for Princeton University. There he received an A. B. in 1877, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, was made an M. D. in 1880. After serving as interne at Bellevue Hospital he took a post-graduate course at Vienna, and Leipsic 1882–1884. He was appointed instructor in surgery in Columbia in 1888, and professor of clinical surgery in 1900, being a successful quiz master in his early career. Beginning his hospital service as assistant surgeon at Roosevelt Hospital in 1885, he served as surgeon at Bellevue from 1888 to 1892, and after that as surgeon to the New York Hospital. At the time of his death from nephritis, June 19, 1913, he was professor of clinical surgery in his alma mater, attending surgeon to the New York Babies' Hospital, and consulting surgeon to the French, Italian, General Memorial, St. Joseph's at Paterson, New York and White Plains hospitals, besides being a member of the American Urological and American Surgical associations and the customary national, state and local medical societies.

In 1892 he published "Intracranial Neurectomy of the Second and Third Divisions of the Fifth Nerve; a New Method" (New York Medical Journal, 1892, vol. lv. 317–319).