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NAME HEITZMAN 513 HEMPEL was crowded with interest from the day he first left Paris and settled at Port Royal to his final home at Quebec. Through innumerable hardships and difficulties he had struggled on with unfailing courage and hope. He had ac- complished wonders during his ten years' resi- dence at Quebec. In January, 1627, a great sorrow came upon his friends. Hebert fell on the ice when he was crossing a river and died shortly afterwards from the effects of the fall. They buried him amidst grief in the cemetery of the RecoUet Fathers, at the foot of the cross. Only three days before the ac- cident, Hebert had visited the Fathers and as though he had had a premonition of his death, he had requested that when that event took place, he should be buried in that spot. M. Charlton. Johns Hop. Hosp. Bull., I9I4, May. 158159. Heitiman, Carl (1836-1896). Carl Heitzman, of New York City, was born in Vinkovcze, Hungary, October 2, 1836, and died in Rome, Italy, December, 1896. He was educated at the universities of Pesth and Vienna and graduated in 1859. After practis- ing in Vienna until 1874 he came to New York. He was one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association and an active member of the New York Dermatological So- ciety, while his name appears as a contributor to or speaker at nearly all of the earlier meet- ings of both organizations. He also wrote a great many articles on skin diseases for both American and German jour- nals, his writings demonstrating considerable clinical ability, as he was an expert microsco- pist and an exact writer on the anatomy and histopathology of the skin. Perhaps his most important paper was the one entitled "Microscopic Studies of Inflam- mations of the Skin," published in "Archives of Dermatology," Philadelphia, 1879. J. McF. WiNFIELD. Dental Cosmos. Philadelphia, 1897, vol. xxxix. New York Med. Monatschr., 1879, vol. ix. L. Weber. Helmuth, William Tod (1833-1902). William Tod Helmuth, surgeon and dean of the New York Homeopathic College and Hos- pital, was born in Philadelphia, October 30, 1833. He was the great-grandson of the Rev. Justus Helmuth, who came over from Bruns- wick about 1750 to take charge of the first German Lutheran church in America, In 1850 William Helmuth began to study medicine with his uncle. Dr. W. Helmuth, graduating three years later and beginning practice in Philadelphia. When twenty-two he became professor of anatomy in the college of which he was afterwards dean, and in that same year published his "Surgery and its Adaptation to Homeopathic Practice." The year 1858 saw him at St. Louis, where he was a founder of the Homeopathic College of Mis- souri and its professor of anatomy, and in 1869 he organized the St. Louis College of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, being its dean and professor of surgery. He went from St. Louis to New York to be surgeon of the Hahnemann Hospital and the New York Surgical Hospital, and became one of the most prominent surgeons of the homeopathic school. In 1877 the regents of the university of the state of New York gave him their M. D., and Yale, in 1888, her LL. D. His "System of Surgery" went through five editions, and his articles included: "An Essay on Cleft Palate," 1867; "Nerve Stretch- ing," 1879; "Suprapubic Lithotomy," 1882; "Ovarian Tumors and Ovariotomy," 1885 ; "A contribution to the Study of Renal Surgery," 1892. As co-editor of the North American Journal of Homepatliy, New England Medical Gazette, New York Journal of Homeopathy, New York Homeopathic Times, and editor of the West- ern Homeopathic Observer, he did good jour- nalistic service and his pen was never idle. He wrote also on lay topics. On May 15, 1902, he died suddenly of angina pectoris, after an illness of only three days. His wife was Miss Pritchard of St. Louis, and they had two children. From data supplied by Dr. T. L. Bradford, who has several portraits in his possession. Hempel, Charles Julius (1811-1879). Charles Julius Hempel, one of the leading homeopathic physicians of America, was born in Solingen, Germany, September 5, 1811. He received a good education in his native country. In his studies he was thrown largely upon his own resources, but he was an unusually bright and assiduous student. At the age of 21 he went to Paris, where he studied under Thense, GayLussac and other prominent teachers. The celebrated historian Michelet took a great lik- ing to him, gave him a home in his family, and was ever afterward his friend. In 1935 Hem- pel emigrated to America. He settled in New York where, for several years, he was engaged in journalistic and literary work. In 1842 he entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of New York, from which he grad- uated in 1845. Already in his graduating thesis, "Eclecticism in Medicine," he showed a marked predilection for the Hahnemannian doctrine.