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NAME HENDRICKS 515 HENRY Hendricks, George A. (1852-1899). George A. Hendricks was born on July 16, 1852, at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, his early professional life being spent in Michigan, where he studied and afterwards taught anatomy under Dr. C. L. Ford (q. v.). While teaching in the University of Michigan Dr. Hendricks edited the Physician and Surgeon, a well- known and widely read medical journal. Dr. Hendricks came to Minneapolis, Minne- sota, in 1898 to accept the position of demon- strator of anatomy in the University of Min- nesota. He was better known as a teacher than as a practitioner, although an expert operator and a skilful surgical diagnostician. He was universally beloved by his students. Dr. Hendricks died in Minneapolis, Septem- ber 24, 1899. BuRNsiDE Foster. Henrolin, Fernand (1847-1906). Fernand Henrotin, son of Dr. Joseph F. Henrotin, was born September 28, 1847, in Brussels, Belgium, and died in Chicago, Sun- day, December 9, 1906. At the age of ten he came to Chicago with his parents, and received a high school education here, graduating from Rush Medical College with the class of 1868. Dr. Henrotin began his professional career under the most favorable auspices. Chicago, in population, did not then exceed three hun- dred and fifty thousand inhabitants. His father enjoyed a lucrative practice, and after his death young Herotin became his natural suc- cessor. From 1868 to 1870 he was prosector at Rush Medical College, surgeon of the Police Department fifteen years, and during this time edited and published a booklet on "First Aid," and for twenty-one years was the physician of the Fire Depart- ment. He was one of the founders of the Association of the Military Surgeons of Illinois, and never lost sight of the interests of military medical affairs in this state. He served for many years on the medical staff of Cook County Hospital, and at the time of his death was president of the Medical Board. He was senior surgeon of the Alexian Brothers Hos- pital and consulting gynecologist of St. Joseph's and German hospitals, also one of the founders of the Chicago Polyclinic, and served from its beginning to the time of his death as its pro- fessor of gynecology. He was a member of the State Medical Society, Chicago Gynecologi- cal Society. American Gynecological Society, and president of the Chicago Medical Society. His special leaning was to operative gyne- cology, and all of his scientific literary produc- tions pertain to this branch of surgery. If he had any hobbies, they were vaginal drainage and vaginal hysterectomy for malignant and myomatous disease of the uterus. His literary work was hampered by a very large and ex- acting practice. He contributed to medical literature many valuable and practical mono- graphs on pelvic drainage and vaginal opera- tions. Many of these articles were written in the dead of night, when less enthusias- tic colleagues were asleep. His chapter on ectopic gestation, in "Practice of Obstetrics, by American Authors," and his article on gyne- cology in the "International Text-book of Sur- gery," deserve special attention, while on his deathbed he practically completed the chap- ter on vaginal hysterectomy for Kelly and No- ble's "Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery." To Henrotin death came prematurely, and his most bitter regret was that he had to leave so much undone. His intention was to retire to his beautiful country home in the course of years, and devote the remainder of his life to the enjoyments of simple nature, to the writing of a novel of social life, of which he had seen so much, good and bad, and to write a work on pelvic surgery. The large semi-private hospital which was nearly completed at the time of his death was subsequently named the "Henrotin Hospital" in his honor. Nicholas Senn. Surgery, Gynec. and Obstet., Jan., 1907. Jour. .mer. Med. Assoc, Dec, 1906, vol. xlvii. Henry, Morris Henry (1835-1895). Morris Henry Henry was born in London, England, July 26, 1835, and came to the United States in 1852. His father was a celebrated Oriental scholar. Dr. Henry was educated at the Polytechnic in Brussels and at the Govern- ment School, Somerset House, London, gradu- ating in medicine from the University of Ver- mont, 1860, and taking his M. A. there in 1876, and his LL. D. from the University of North Carolina, 1885. After graduating in medicine he joined the United States Navy, serving as assist- ant surgeon under Admiral Farragut dur- ing the Civil War, then settling in New York City, he engaged in general practice and was surgeon-in-chief to the department of vener- eal and skin disease, Emigrant Hospital, Ward's Island, from 1872 to 1880. He was the organizer of the Ambulance Service of New York City; a member of the University of Athens, and had been decorated