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NAME HEARD 511 HEBERT mins, receiving his M. D. in 1851 from Jeffer- son Medical College, and taking a post-gradu- ate course in Philadelphia, soon after settling in South Wheeling. In 1857 for recuperation he went into the mountains, and, always fond of geology, became interested in searching for coal and oil, and "located" and supervised the boring of the state's first productive oil well In June, 1861, Hazlett again left practice, this time to enter the Union Army as surgeon of the second West Virginia Volunteer In- fantry. In the autumn of 1862 he was ap- pointed brigade-surgeon of Lathanis Indepen- dent Brigade, and in 1863 surgeon of the United States General Hospital at Grafton. The war over. Dr. Hazlett resumed practice in Wheeling, was very successful and ranked high among his fellows. He was president of the Ohio County Medi- cal Society and president in 1893 of the State Medical Association. From its origin he was consulting physician to the City Hospital. Dr. Hazlett married Mary Elizabeth Hobbs, October 7, 1852, and had four sons and one daughter — Howard, Samuel, Edward, Robert, and Katherine. Dr. Hazlett died at his home in M-Tieeling, West Virginia, on September 2, 1899, after a year's illness with pernicious anemia. His writings, which were not numerous, are to be found in the transactions of the West Virginia State Medical Association. Samuel L.^wrence Jepson. Trans. Med. Soc, W, Vircinia, 1900, 461-465. In the Trans, of the W. Virginia State Med. Assoc, for 1900, is a fuller sketch, with half- tone portrait. Heard, Thomas Jefferson (1814-1899). Thomas Jefiferson Heard, physician and cli- matologist, was born in Morgan County, Georgia, May 14, 1814. He was of Scotch- Irish and English ancestry, and came of pa- triotic stock, his grandfather, a Virginian, hav- ing fought throughout the American Revolu- tion, and his father a soldier in the War of 1812. He took a- first course in medicine at the Transylvania University (1836-37), and received his M. D. from the University of Louisiana in 1845. In 1837 he settled in Washington, Texas, where he remained until 1857 when he moved to Galveston, his home for the rest of his life. He early stood for the treatment of ma- laria with quinine, ammonia, opiates and salts, instead of bleeding, purgatives and mercury. As surgeon and as soldier he aided in keep- ing back the Mexicans from Texas (1838- 1842) ; in the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army as examining surgeon on the staff of General T. B. Howard. In 1866 he became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Galveston Medical College, but resigned after one course of lectures; in 1876 he was elected professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Uni- versity of Louisiana, but resigned in 1877 because of ill health. He was one or the or- ganizers and the first president of the Texas State Medical Association. He wrote "Epidemics, Topography and Cli- matology of Texas" (1868), and "Epidemics and Climatology" (1869), also he contributed to medical journals. In 1839 he married Frances A. Rucker, of Washington County, who with one daughter survived him. He died at Galveston, March 8, 1899. George H. Lee. Hebert, Louis ( -1627). Every student of Canadian liistory knows that from the first days of the colonization of New France, an important role as colonists was played by members of the medical profes- sion, if they were not remarkable for any great professional brilliancy, they were gen- erally men of sterling character and courage. Louis Hebert, apothecary, surgeon and agri- culturist, is regarded next to Champlain, as the "Father of New France." When Champlain induced his old friend of Port Royal to ven- ture once more to become a colonist of New France, he knew he had accomplished a greater work in building up his colony than had been done since its foundation. For Louis Hebert had proved his worth at Port Royal, not only as a surgeon, but as a keen and ar- dent agriculturist. When Champlain returned to France in 1617, his mind filled with the wondrous future he was planning for Quebec, he knew it was of vital import to obtain as colonists men of the best type, not jail-birds such as Roberval had had to contend with, nor mere adven- turers, who came for the love of adventure or gain and went away again, but men who would cultivate the land. And so the thought of his friend came to him — Louis Hebert, who had cultivated such beautiful gardens at Port Royal, until that settlement was de- stroyed by Samuel Argall, when Hebert re- turned to France. Louis Hebert had received a good education, for his father was a man of repute, being apothecary to Catherine de' Me- dici. Louis followed his father's business and had a shop on the banks of the Seine, where he was well patronized, but in the