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NAME HILL 528 HILL before from exposure while out driving to see a patient. He suffered terribly until death at last released him, July 17, 1904. James A. Spalding. Trans. Maine Med. Assoc, 1904. Hill, Gardner Caleb (1829-1915). Gardner Caleb Hill, of Keene, New Hamp- sTiire, author of "History of the Healing Art," was born at Winchester in that state, March 20, 1829. He was the son of Caleb and Polly Howard Hill, received his education in the schools of his native town and the academies in Winchester and Swanzey, and Saxton's River, Vermont. In 1856 he graduated from the CaStleton Medical College, and ten years later took a post-graduate course at Harvard Medi- cal School. Dr. Hill was a school-teacher in Winchester, Swanzey and Keene for nearly twenty years before devoting himself entirely to the practice of medicine. From 1857 to 1867 he practised in Warwick, Massachusetts, then he removed to Keene, where he passed the re- mainder of his life. He was a member of the common council, a county commissioner and county treasurer ; he served also on the board of education in both Warwick and Keene ; he was city and county physician in Keene, and an active member of the Cheshire C< unty Medical Society besides being a member of the staff of the Elliott City Hospital. He published in the Keene Sentinel several articles on local historical subjects; the one that appeals largely to the medical profession was his "History of the Healing Art," 1905, a good-sized pamphlet containing interesting sketches of the early practitioners of medicine in New Hampshire. Dr. Hill married Rebecca F. Howard of Walpole in 1856. She died in 1893 and the following year he married Carrie R. Hutchins of Keene. He died at his home. May 1, 1915. Trans. X. H. Med. Soc, 1915, 216-218. Portrait. Hill, Hampton Eugene (1850-18941. Of an investigating nature in childhood, and valuable as a surgeon in his medical life, Hampton Eugene Hill was born in Mount Ver- non, Maine, April, 1850, the eldest son of John and Dorcas Hill, both of whom possessed originality of character. He early developed a curious fondness for studying animals, alive or dead. When he was ten years old his parents moved to Biddeford, Maine, where he studied in the High School, then worked in a drug store and finally ob- tained a similar position in Portland. While here he began to study medicine at the Port- land School for Medical Instruction at the Medical School of Maine, fmally graduating at the University of Michigan, in 1871. At the urgent request of his uncle. Dr. Hiram Hovey Hill (q. v.), of Augusta, Me., he settled there as his assistant, but possibly the death of his wife, Lizzie Homan, three months after their marriage, saddened his life, and he was glad to return to Biddeford where his parents lived. While at Augusta, it may be added, he served as demonstrator of anatomy at the Med- ical School of Maine, at Brunswick. He was soon in active practice at Biddeford, and had all that he could attend to. He married a second wife, Mrs. Myra Man- seur, of Corinna, Maine, whose death, after a surgical operation performed by his skil- ful hands, occurred a few years later on. This severe trial, and the unusual sadness of this unique case, comliined to hasten Dr. Hill's death. His actual working life lasted hardly twenty years, for at one time he had to pass more than a year in Dakota on account of bis health, but in that period he performed many operations at the request of the local physicians. He was a member of the Maine Medical As- sociation, and read before it two remarkable papers, one in 1871 on "Popliteal Aneurysm" and the other in 1884 on "Six Unusual Ovari- otomies." Among his surgical feats were thir- ty-four laparotomies with but four deaths and twenty-four consecutive ovariotomies without the loss of a patient. He once removed a uterine fibroid weighing forty-seven pounds. He was not a dashing op- erator, but very exact, and carried everything through successfully. He took infinite pains in every operation, prepared every bandage, dis- infected every instrument, threaded every needle, and in his urgent cases remained with the patient until the danger was passed. His last days were darkened with sor- row from which we hesitate to lift the veil. His work was done ; he gradually passed away, leaving among the medical men of Maine a memory of his remarkable work. On Tuesday, January 9, 1SP4, he ceased to live. James A. Spauunc. Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour., 1894, vol. xxxiii. Trans. Maine Med. Assoc. 1892-4, vol. xi. Hill, Hiram Hovey (1810-1889). This genius in medicine was born in Turner, Maine, April 30, 1810, and here he passed his youth, manifesting unusual fondness for inves- tigations in natural history. His powers of ob- servation were early developed, and he was soon recognized as a boy bound to get at the