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ANGELL, the systematic training of nurses for the insane in the United States. Dr. Andrews was an able, active, energetic worker in his chosen field of labor, and the success of his career as a practical alienist was fully attested by the history of the Buffalo State Hospital and his enviable record at Utica. He died August 3, 1894, after an illness of more than a year.



Angell, Anna A. (1844–1906)

Born in New Jersey February 13, 1844, she graduated from the New York Infirmary School in 1871 and soon after became a resident physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital, at the instance of several members of the medical staff. This was the first general hospital in the country to confer a regular hospital appointment on a woman. She served three years very acceptably.

In conjunction with Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, she founded a dispensary at Mt. Sinai Hospital, which has since had women on the staff.

Upon leaving Mt. Sinai she studied in Europe for a couple of years and returning took up work in the tenement house districts.

In January, 1877, she became resident physician of the New York Infant Asylum. There during her three years of service the death rate among the children was materially lowered. Soon after leaving the Infant Asylum ill health forced Dr. Angell to retire from practice, to her a blow and disappointment not light to bear, but her many years of invalidism were endured with a fortitude only born of a strong character. She died June 8, 1906.



Annan, Samuel (1797–1868)

Samuel Annan was born in Philadelphia in 1797; he went abroad and took his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1820, and the same year was president of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. In 1820–21 he was assistant at Guy's Hospital and at St. Thomas's Hospital, London.

He returned to the United States and was one of the founders of Washington Medical College, Baltimore, in 1827, and professor of anatomy and physiology from its opening until 1834.

In 1846–47 he was professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, in 1848 professor of practice in the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., and was the first superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum, Hopkinsville, Ky., from its opening, 1854, until his resignation in 1858.

From 1861 to 1864 he was surgeon in the Confederate Army.

Annan published the first recorded cases of bronchotomy in Maryland. He died at the Church Home, Baltimore, Jan. 19, 1868.



Anthon, George Christian (1734–1815)

George Christian Anthon, first surgeon at Detroit under the British flag, was born at Salzungen, in the Duchy of Saxe, Meiningen, August 25, 1734; his father a clergyman and teacher in the town school for boys; his mother a pastor's daughter. On the death of his father, in 1739, his mother married a surgeon of Salzungen, John Gottlieb Boumbort. Beginning the study of medicine with his stepfather he continued it with Dr. Mackel of Gurnstungen, and in 1750 he passed the examination before the medical authorities in Eisenach, and one in 1754 before the college surgeons at Amsterdam, securing thereby the position of surgeon in the Dutch West India service. On his second trip in the Vrouw Anna he was captured by a British privateer and taken to New York. His usefulness as a surgeon being recognized, he was made assistant surgeon of the General Military Hospital at Albany in 1758 and at the end of the year was appointed assistant surgeon to the first Battalion, Sixtieth Regiment, Royal Americans. His commission in the British Army is dated Albany, June 25, 1761, and signed by the commander-in-chief, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, and appoints him "Surgeon's Mate to his Majesty's Hospital in North America." In 1760 he was detached with the party that took possession of Detroit under Major Rogers, November 29, and for the next twenty-six years was the sole medical officer of the post, for Army, Navy and Indians. During Pontiac's siege of Detroit, Dr. Anthon desiring to have a look at the enemy, climbed an old tree near by. The Indians began firing on him, but Gladwin, unwilling to lose his medicine man, made a sortie, and rescued the doctor. In 1765 Sir William Johnson appointed Dr. Anthon surgeon for the Indians and sent him with Deputy Col. Croghan on an expedition to the Illinois country. The Kickapoos took him prisoner below the mouth