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NAME HETHERINGTON 522 HEUSTIS position at the time of his death, which oc- curred at the Sanitarium, August 9, 1918, from chronic interstitial nephritis. He was president of the Chicago Pathologi- cal Society in 1892-1893. In 1917 he received a captain's commission in the Medical Re- serve Corps, United States Army, but from physical disability was honorably discharged in April, 1918. The degree of LL. D. was given him by Loyola University in 1913. Herzog wrote : "Text Book on Disease Pro- ducing Micro-Organisms (1910) ; and "Text Book on General and Comparative Pathology (1916). In 1894 he married Seraphine Ernau of Berlin, Germany. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1918, vol. Ixxi, p. 589. lUlinois Med. Jour., 1918, vol. xxxiv, p. 184. Who's Who in America, vol. x. Hetherington, George A. (1851-1911). George A. Hetherington was born at John- ston, New Brunswick, March 17, 1851, and died suddenly June 14, 1911, aged 60, at St. John, New Brunswick, in which city the greater part of his professional life had been spent. His primary and collegiate education com- pleted, he taught school for a short time, but soon after followed his natural bent to pursue medical study, and attended two years at the University of Michigan. While thus engaged, he received an appointment on the staff of the Washtenaw County Asy- lum, and there gleaned his first know- ledge of the practical care of the insane, and the study of psychiatry. He then com- pleted his medical course in the College of Medicine and Surgery, Cincinnati, O., gradu- ating in 1875. Post-graduate study in the New York Clinic followed, after which the young man returned to his native heath, and practised medicine successfully for about five years. At this time he took a further course of study in his chosen profession at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and the Rotimda, Dub- lin, which lasted for some months, returning to St. John in 1882, where he practised for many years. In 1896 he received the appoint- ment of medical superintendent of the Pro- vincial Hospital for the Insane at St. John, a position he held until 1904, when he reluctantly resigned owing to ill health. Dur- ing his superintendency the affairs of the hos- pital were on a high plane, the institution being administered along modern lines, both in its medical and executive spheres. After his re- tirement he remained in St. John until his untimely death, though less able to actively continue practice, which indeed his ill health would not permt. Although his life was a busy one, he was prominent in many societies, being a life mem- ber of the British Medical Society, fellow of the British Gynecological Society, past chan- cellor in the Knights of Phythias, a 32nd de- gree Mason, and paymaster of the 62nd Regi- ment for many years with the rank of captain. Institutional Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada. Henry M. Hurd, 1917. Heustis, Jabez Wiggins (1784-1841). Jabez Wiggins Heustis, pioneer physician and citizen of Alabama, was born in 1784, in St. John, New Brunswick. He received his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, taking his M. D. in 1812. In 1806-1807 he was assistant sur- geon in the United States Navy, later be- coming surgeon in the United States Army under General Andrew Jackson and serving with him in his southern campaigns. He went to live in Cahaba, Alabama, afterward mov- ing to Mobile. Dr. Heustis wrote "Physical Observations and Medical Tracts and Researches on the Topography and Diseases of Louisiana" (1817) ; "Medical Facts and Inquiries Respect- ing the Causes, Nature, Prevention and Cure of Fever" (1821) ; "Bilious Remittent Fever of Alabama" (1825). He Was a contributor to the American Journal of the Medical Scien- ces in which appeared his "Topographical and Medical Sketches of Mobile for the year 1835" (1836, vol. xix, pp. 65-85) ; and "Case of Gland- ers in a Youth" (1837, vol. xx, pp. 346-350). He married Miss Gayle, of Selma, Alabama. He was honored as a physician and surgeon and a writer; he wrote of local conditions and was held as an authority. He died at Tal- ladega Springs, Alabama, in 1841, as the re- sult of blood poisoning, contracted while per- forming an operation. His son, James Fountain Heustis (1829- 1891), was born in Cahaba, November 15, 1829. He received his early education in the common schools of Mobile, and graduated in medicine at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane) in 1848. He served as assistant sur- geon in the United States Navy from 1850 to 1857, when he resigned, he having been pro- moted in 1856 to be passed assistant surgeon ; he began practice in Mobile. When the .Ala- bama Medical College was organized in 1859 he became professor of anatomy, but when the Civil War broke out he went with the Con- federate Army and served throughout the War, first as surgeon, later as medical di-