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NAME HERRICK 519 HERRICK edies, not as absolute specitics. A saying of his regarding symptoms and remedies was : "We must always try to get at least three legs to a stool, if possible, that we may sit comfortably." Hering was a lover of music, and musicales were held frequently at his home. He was a Swedenborgian ; his motto was: "Love truth because it is truth and do good because it is good." He had a theory that "Death occurs when the tide is going out and birth when the tide is coming in : that is, the lunar and solar influences may con- trol vital forces as they do the ocean tides." Hering died July 23, 1880, of paralysis of the heart, as a post mortem examination showed. Life and Reminiscences of Dr. Constantine Her- ing, Arthur M. Eastman. Information from son. Herrick, Henry Ju.lus (1833-1901). Henry Justus Herrick, a prominent physi- cian of Cleveland, Ohio, of New England descent, was born in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio, January 20, 1833. While yet a lad, his father removed to Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio, where the boy divided his time between labor upon the farm or in a sawmill and attendance during the winter at the ordinary district school, in 1854 entering Williams College, supporting himself by teach- ing school during the vacations, and graduat- ing there in 1858. On his return to Ohio in 1858, he studied under Dr. Martin L. Brooks, of Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1860 went to Chi- cago and continued with Dr. Brainard, ma- triculating in the Rush Medical College and graduating there in 1861. After a tour of service in the United States Marine Hospital at Chicago, Dr. Herrick returned to Cleveland and became assistant to Dr. Brooks, his old preceptor, in the charge of the United States Marine Hospital. In 1862, however, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the seven- teenth regiment of Ohio infantry; promoted to surgeon in the same year ; captured at the battle of Chickamauga, spent two months in the Libby Prison and was exchanged, and followed General Sherman in his famous march to the sea. During a short furlough in 1863 he married Mary Brooks, the daugh- ter of his former preceptor. Two of his sons also became doctors. At the close of the war Dr. Herrick spent several months in New York City to refresh his medical knowl- edge, then returned to Cleveland and con- tinued to practise there until his death from uremia, January 28, 1901. In 1866 Dr. Herrick was elected to the chair of obstetrics and the diseases of children, in the Charity Hospital Medical College of Cleveland, and four years later was trans- ferred to the chair of the principles of surgery in the same institution, then known, however, as the medical department of the University of Wooster. On the reorganization of this college in 1881 Dr. Herrick resigned his position and accepted the chair of pathology and hygiene in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. Subsequent- ly he was transferred to the chair of gynecol- ogy and hygiene there and, on his retirement, was honored with the title of professor emeritus. He was president of the Ohio State Med- ical Society in 1873-4, and at one time or an- other of the Ohio State Sanitary Association, the Northeastern Ohio Medical Society and the Cuyahoga County Medical Society. He was also a frequent contributor to the medical journals and to the transactions of the various societies of which he was a mem- ber. Among the more important contributions from his pen were : "Carcinoma : a Form of Perverted Nutrition" ("Transactions of Ohio State Medical Society," 1891); "The Radical Cure of Hernia," Columbus Medical Journal, vol. vi, 1887; "Dietetics in Idopathic Fevers," Columbus Medical Joiirnai, vol. v, 1887 ; "Hyp- notism," Cleveland Medical Gazette, vol. xii, 1896-7. No portrait of Dr. Herrick, except a crayon sketch in the office of his son, and a very imperfect likeness, is known to the writer. Henry E. Handerson. Cleveland Med. Gaz., 1900-1, vol. xvi. Mag. of Western Hist., vol. iv. Portrait. Herrick, Stephen Solon (1833-1906). Stephen Solon Herrick, physician, surgeon, journalist, author, was born December 11, 1833, in West Randolph, Vermont. He gradu- ated A. B. at Dartmouth College in 1854 and M. D. from the University of Louisiana in 1861. He served as assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army in 1862-3 ; and after- wards in the Confederate Navy until the end of the Civil War. He was inspector and secre- tary of the health department of New Orleans from 1869 to 1886; and held the same office in San Francisco and in the State of California from 1885 to 1896. He was professor of chemistry in the New Orleans School of Medicine 1869-70, and professor of natural physics and chemistry in the Louisiana Agri- cultural and Mechanical College, 1876-77. He was on the educational staff of the New Or-