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NAME HERTER S21 HERZOG tific medicine — a devotion ever increasing and burning never more brightly than during the last years of a progressive and wasting ner- vous affection. To this life-work he brought the intellectual qualifications of the successful investigator of nature, good training, industry and enthusiasm. With the scientific tempera- ment was joined, in unusual degree, the im- aginative and artistic, in music especially, his accomplishments being those of a virtuoso. Opportunities for scientific research Dr. Herter created largely for himself, by con- structing on the top floor of his house a well- equipped laboratory for experimental, patho- logical, bacteriological and chemical investi- gations, and by securing the services and co- operation of able assistants and collaborators. From this private laboratory issued during fif- teen years numerous and valuable contributions. Dr. Herter was a prolific contributor to medical science, his published articles and books numbering not less than seventy, and covering a wide range of activity. His earli- est scientific interest related to diseases of the nervous system, his first publications in this field appearing in 1888, followed in 1889 by his valuable study of experimental myelitis, and later by several articles of pathological and clinical interest, and by the publication in 1892 of the first edition of his text-book on "The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System." After this period his work lay more and more in the domains of experimental pathology, and especially of pathological chemistry, being concerned with problems of metabolism, of the formation of gall-stones, of glycosuria, of anemia and toxemia and of infantilism ; and in the later years particularly with the study of the intestinal bacterial flora and intestinal putrefaction. His lectures on "Chemical Pathology in its Relation to Practi- cal Medicine," published in 1902, met a most favorable reception. He approached pathologi- cal problems with broad biological, and even philosophical interest. Dr. Herter's services to American medicine are not to be measured solely by his published contributions, valuable as these are. The ex- ample and influence of his personality and of the ideals which he represented made strong- ly for higher professional standards and for the wider recognition and cultivation of med- ical science. The lectureships which Dr. Her- ter, in association with Mrs. Herter, estab- lished upon wise and generous foundations at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege serve a most useful purpose in the pro- motion of scientific medicine. It was mainly through Dr. Herter's instru- mentality and generous support that the Jour- nal of Biological Chemistry was established in 190S, and he was also active in the organi- zation, in 1908, ot the American Society of Biological Chemists. Biological chemistry in this country owes a large debt to him. His services were of great help in the plan- ning and development of the Rockefeller In- stitute. After the opening in September, 1910, of the hospital of the Institute, to which he had been appointed physician, and which owes much in its conception and general character as a research hospital to the time and thought devoted to it by hiin, Dr. Herter began to make use of the opportunities there offered, which seemed to be the fulfilment of his dreams for study of the problems of dis- ease as presented by the living patient. The zeal and ardor with which he entered upon this work seemed to his colleagues wonder- ful, and indeed heroic, in view of the increas- ing and distressing physical infirmities of the last weeks of his life. William H. Welch. Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., May, 1911, vol. xxii, p. 161. Science, June. 1911, n. s. vol. x.xxiii, p. 846, Graham Lusk. Jour. Biol. Chem., Baltimore, 1910, vol. viii, 437- 439. Portrait. Jour. Amer. Med. .ssoc., 1910. vol. Iv, p. 2077. Herzog, Maximilian Joseph (1858-1918). Maximilian Joseph Herzog, pathologist, was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, Sep- tember 17, 1858, son of Jesaias Herzog and Johanna Maas. He studied biology at the universities of Giesen, Strasburg and Mar- burg, 1879-1881. In 1882 he came to America and studied medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, at which he graduated in 1890; from 1891 to 1892 he did post-gradu- ate work at the Universities of Wiirzburg, Berlin and Munich. He was laryngologist and otologist at the German Hospital, Cincinnati (1892-1894) ; pro- fessor of pathology and bacteriology at the Chicago Polyclinic and Hospital (1896-1903) ; pathologist Government Laboratories, Manila, P. I. (1903-1906); professor of pathology Chicago Veterinary College (1806-1816) ; chief of Department of Pathology, Cook County Hospital, from 1912, dean and professor of pathology in the Medical Department of Loyola University froin 1912 until his death. In 1916 he became superintendent and director of laboratories and research at the Muncipal Tu- berculosis Sanitarium o£ Chicago, holding this