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NAME HILLS 530 HIMES HilU, Frederick Lyman (1870-1918). Frederick Lyman Hills, alienist, tlie son of Dr. Lyman Henry Hills, still practising in 1918, at the age of 82, in Binghamton, New York, and of Margaret Williams Hills, was born at Schuyler's Lake, Otsego County, New York, October 18, 1870. He was graduated from the Cooperstown High School in 1887, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1892, and then entered Christ's Hos- pital, Jersey City, New Jersey, where he saw much obstetrical practice. He next spent a year at the Adams Nervine Asylum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and soon after was chosen assistant physician to the State Hos- pital for the Insane at Danvers, in the same state. He was invited to be assistant superin- tendent of the New Hampshire State Hospital for the Insane at Concord, New Hampshire, where he proved himself to be a man of rare mental poise. In 1896 he married Miss Jo- sephine Gilbert of Pittsford, Vermont, and was survived by her and by a daughter and a son. During his life in Concord, Dr. Hills became interested in the study of tuberculosis, showing in point of fact, incipient tokens of that dis- ease himself, and in company with Dr. Mitchell, of Lancaster, he wrote and delivered many public addresses on this disease, illus- trated with maps and charts, and at the re- quest of the Governor, he chose Glen Clifif as the situation for the New Hampshire Sana- torium for Tuberculosis. During this period of public health work he won the Pray prize of $100 given by the New Hampshire Medical Society for the best essay on tuberculosis and its treatment. After taking a suggested rest from his labors at the Loomis Sanatorium at Liberty, New York, working there as resolute- ly as ever, and taking charge of one of the buildings and its occupants, he returned to Concord as "cured" and resumed his position in the State Hospital, and with it his studies on the insane. In 1906 he was elected superintendent of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Rut- land, Massachusetts, at that time one of the largest of its kind in the nation, and filled that position with great ability and to the satis- faction of all. Three years later, in 1909, he was chosen superintendent of the Eastern Maine State Hospital at Bangor, and began his labors there at once. That he worked conscientiously and effectively for the rest of his life, all who ever inspected that institution knew full well. Enthusiastic by nature, and with widely founded administrative experience learned in years before, he brought this hospital to a level comparing favorably with any other through- out the United States. Here he not only studied the causes and the possible cures for insanity, but he invented and developed edu- cational industries for those afflicted, such as carpentry, weaving of rags, entertainments for the Fourth of July and Christmas, agriculture, gardening, and the art of greenhousing plants and flowers. His writings are: ''One Hundred Cases of Insanity Tabulated" ; What Must I Do to Keep Sane?"; "Psychoses Following Surgical Operations" ; and "Psychiatry, Ancient and Modern," which was so attractive as to be ac- cepted by the Popular Science Monthly. The paper on "Operations" is particularly good, showing the history of twenty-five patients, all undergoing operations on the uterus, its appendages of the apendix vermiformis with- out previous symptoms of insanity, yet all ex- hibiting explosive insanity afterwards. In a paper on the "Cfluses of Insanity," mention is made of heredity, alcohol, drugs, infectious diseases and the bad housing of people with debilitated bodies. He was very skilful in psychiatry in its multitudinous moods and forms and in psy- chical diagnosis. He welcomed visitors to his many hospitals to look about for themselves and to. answer their questions ; he was, as one might say, an extremely well-balanced phy- sician ; not brilliant for a while with a light going out suddenly, but possessing a mind of steady, long-enduring serenely-burning flame. He died in New York, from pneumonia. July 20 1918. James A. Spalding. Maine Med. Tour., Feb.. 1919. Portrait. Himes, Isaac Newton (1 834- 1 895 ). Isaac Newton Himes, a prominent physician of Cleveland, Ohio, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1834. He was edu- cated in the University of Pennsylvania and in Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pennsyl- vania. From the latter institution he re- ceived in 1833 the degree of A. B. and in 1856 that of M. A. His medical education was acquired in the University of Pennsylvania and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, graduating from the latter in 1856. In 1861 Dr. Himes began the practice of medicine in Chillicothe, Ohio, but the outbreak of the Civil War attracted him to military ser- vice, and he filled the position of an assistant surgeon until about the close of the war. Two years were then spent in study and travel in Europe, and on his return to the United States