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NAME HERSEY 520 HERTER leans Medical and Surgical Journal from 1866 to 1880. He practised medicine from 1865 to 1887 and wrote on medical subjects for "Wood's Handbook of Hygiene and Public Health" and "Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences." He won a prize from the American Medical Association in 1869 for an essay on "Quinine." Dr. Herrick was president of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Association. He married Julia Cowand of New Orleans in 1867. He died May 20, 1906. Herringshaw's Nat'l Lib. of Amer. Biog., 19H, vol. V, p. 3. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., New York, 1887. Who's Who in A.merica, 1899-1900 and 1908- 1909. Hersey, Eiekiel (1709-1770). Ezekiel Hersey was born at Hingham, Massachusetts, September 21, 1709, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1728. He studied medicine with Lawrence Dal'Honde, a French physician of Boston, who had gained notoriety in the controversy over the intro- duction of inoculation for small-pox. Dal'- Honde was an ally of Douglass (q. v.), who opposed Boylston so strenuo'usly in that mem- orable affair. Hersey did not partake of the prejudices of his preceptor, but was one of the first to submit to the new preventive measure. He practised at Hingham and gained great popularity which extended his practice into the counties of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barn- stable. President Quincy of Harvard College wrote of him : "His intellectual powers were strong, his manners pleasing and his profes- sional attentions assiduous and faithful. To the rich his charges were proverbially moder- ate, and to the poor his services were ever ready, and even gratuitous. Yet he attained great wealth, according to the estimate of his contemporaries, and was among the most beloved and honored of the distinguished men of that period." In the agitation which preceded the Revolu- tion, Hersey was active. He was often chair- man of the committees from Hingham, to act with similar committees from other towns in Massa'chusetts for formulating measures for defense. His eloquence is spoken of as "most persuasive." Dr. Hersey died December 9, 1770, be- queathing to Harvard College the sum of one thousand pounds towards the support of a professor of anatomy and physic. This was twelve years before the founding of the Har- vard Medical School and the sum was placed at interest, later (1791) to be augmented by a similar sum from his widow, for the same object. From these sums and a further be- quest of five hundred pounds by Dr. Abner Hersey (1722-1787), a brother, were estab- lished and maintained the "Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery" and the "Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic." Dr. Ezekiel Hersey also left funds for the establishment of an academy in Hing- ham. Abner Hersey took medical students as apprentices, according to the custom of the day, practised all his life in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and left a will that was said to be one of the strangest documents on record, and the legislature was forced to put an end to his scheme for perpetuating his estate. He wore a coat made of seven tanned calf-skins and railed at the fashions of the time. Hist. Har. Med. School, T. F. Harrington, M. D. New York, 1905. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., New York, 1887. Herter, Christian Archibald (1865-1910). Christian Archibald Herter was born in Glenville, Connecticut, September 3, 1865, and died at his home in New York City, De- cember 5, 1910, in the forty-sixth year of his age. His early education, partly by private teachers and at the Columbia Grammar School, was largely influenced and directed by his father a man of wide culture and scholarly attainments. He graduated M. D. at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University) in 1885, and pursued graduate pro- fessional studies at the Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, and later in Germany and France. He was visiting physician to the New York City Hospital from 1894 to 1904, professor of pathological chemistry at the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1898 to 1903, and since 1903 professor of phar- macology and therapeutics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a member of the Board of Referees appointed by the president of the United States to act as ad- visers to the Department of Agriculture in the enforcement of the National Food and Drugs Act. V^'ith the incorporation of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in June, 1901, Dr. Herter, who had been active and influen- tial in the preliminary conferences, became a member of the board of directors, and served for a number of years as its treasurer. From the date of his graduation in medicine, Dr. Herter's life was one of singular devo- tion to the pursuit and advancement of scien-