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NAME HEWSON 524 HIBBERD phuretted hydrogen gas, was certainly success- ful in this case. Dr. Hewson suffered him- self occasionally, from the effects of being thrown from his gig in 1868, but for a long time his slight seizures were known only to the few, but finally a severe attack came on September 11, 1889, as he was going to his room. He fell on the stairs and in about an hour the end came. So passed away a cultured Christian gentleman and a scientist of no small rank, one so anxious to do his best even in delivering lectures, that he first wrote, then practised their delivery with one Wood, an actor. Among his appointments were : Surgeon to the Wills Hospital for Eye Disease; sur- geon from 1861-7 to the Pennsylvania Hos- pital; lecturer at the summer school of Jef- ferson Medical College and contract surgeon during the Civil War. Some of his many papers to the various med- ical journals were: "Earth as a Topical An- plication in Surgery," Philadelphia, 1872 ; "On the Treatment of Fibroids of the Uterus by Means of Dry Earth" (Transactions of the American Medical Association), 1880, vol. xxi) ; "Cervical Lymphadenoma treated by the Application of Earth," Medical News, Phila- delphia, 1882, vol. xli. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Philadelphia, 1889, vol. Ixi. Trans. Coll. Phys., Philadelphia, 1890, 3 s., vol. xii, pp. xx.xiii-xliv. J. C. Morris. Hewson, Thomas Tickell (1773-1848). Thomas Tickell Hewson, professor of com- parative anatomy in the University of Penn- sylvania, was the son of William, a London surgeon, and Mary Stevenson Hewson, and w^s born in London, April 9, 1773. His mother was the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Stevenson, a widow in whose house Benjamin Franklin lived when in London as "agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania." As a boy young Hewson was so studious that he was called "little inquisitive Tom" and "all soul and no body." He had his early education at a private school kept by William Gilpin at Cheam, Surrey. The mother having moved to Philadelphia in 1786, Thomas entered the junior class of the College of Philadelphia, afterwards the University of Pennsylvania, taking an A. B. in 1789. He returned to England in June, 1794, and the next September entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital as one of two house surgeons. In November, 1795, he went to Edinburgh, where he remained until July, 1796; then going back to London, he stayed until July, 1800, when he returned to Philadelphia and began practice. From 1806 to 1818 he was physician to the Walnut Street Prison. His faithful services to the prisoners during the prevalence of a "malignant typhus fever" were commemorated by the prison inspectors by the gift of a silver vase. In 1822 he established a private medical school, taking himself the chair of anatomy while Thomas Harris taught surgery and Franklin Bache materia medica and chemistry. Other positions held by him were : surgeon to 'the Philadelphia Almshouse, physician to the Orphan Asylum, and in 1816 he was elected professor of comparative anatomy in the de- partment of natural science of the University of Pennsylvania, although he seems not to have given a course on the subject until the spring of 1818. He married on November 5, 1812, Emily, daughter of John Banks, of Washington ; they had twelve children, one of the sons being Addinell (q. v.), a Philadelphia surgeon. He was on the comiuittee that had to do with the making and revision of the National Pharmacopoeia. He was a member of the Edinburgh Medical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the Philadelphia Med- ical Society, the American Linnaean Society and the medical society of the District of Columbia. He was president of the Philadel- phia College of Physicians. Harvard con- ferred on him the honoary M. D. degree in 1822. Dr. Hewson died February 17, 1843, at the age of seventy-four. Lives of Emin. Philadelphians Now Deceased, H. Simpson. 1859. Franklin Bache, M. D. Dictn'y Nat. Biog. Hist. Penn. Hosp., Morton. Hibberd, James Farquhar (1816-1903). James Farquhar Hibberd, of Richmond, In- diana, was of English-Quaker ancestry, and was born at Monrovia, Frederic County, Maryland, November 4, 1816. Later in life he assisted in the formation of the Ohio and Indiana State Medical Societies, and served the Aiuerican Medical Association as presi- dent, 1894, showing great e.Kecutive abil- ity and skill as presiding officer, quali- ties not too common among the frater- nity. Dr. Hibberd's yo'uth was spent with an uncle in Berkeley County, Virginia, where, besides working on a farm, he took a course in the Hallowell Classical School at Alexandria, read medicine with his cousin. Dr. Aaron Wright, and then went to Yale Medical School to receive his degree of M. D. in 1840. He practised at Salem, Oregon, for several years, entered the College of Physi-