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NAME KINGSTON 531 KINGSTON private business claimed his time for several years, and one year was spent in San Fran- cisco. In 1871 he settled in Cleveland and resumed the practice of medicine, being at once elected to the chair of physiology and pathology in the Cleveland Medical College, a position he held for ten years. On the reorganization of this college in 1881, when it became the medical department of the Western Reserve University, Dr. Himes was elected to the chairs of morbid anatomy and orthopedic surgery. The following year he was again transferred to the chair of path- ology, in which position he continued in active service until his death. Ke was also for many years visiting physician to the City Hospital (later Lakeside Hospital) of Cleveland. Dr. Himes was a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and was at the time of his death president of the Cleveland Society of Medical Sciences. He married, in 1878, Mrs. Mary Vincent Reid, daughter of John A. Vincent, of Cleve- land. A man of exceptional education and attain- ments. Dr. Himes made but few communica- tions to the medical journals of his day. Among these we may refer only to a "Report of Progress in Physiolog' and Pathology, Columbus Medical Jotirnal, vol. xv (1885) and "Remarks and Cases Connected with Med- ical Examinations for Life Insurance." He died of cardiac disease in Cleveland, April 1, 1895. An excellent portrait of Dr. Himes was pre- sented by his widow to the Cleveland Medical Library Association, of which he was an ori- ginal and zealous member. Henry E. Handerson. Trans, of the Ohio State Med. Soc, 1895. Hingston, William Hales (1829-1907). Dr. Hingston was the first son of Samuel James Hingston and his second wife, Eleanor McGrath, of Montreal. He was born June 29, 1829, at Hinchinbrook, near Huntingdon, Que- bec. His father was lieutenant-colonel of militia and a native of Ireland. The boy was educated at the local grammar school, con- ducted by John — afterwards Sir John — Rose, and at thirteen went to the College of the Sulpicians in Montreal. He was obliged to leave school to seek employment and was ap- prenticed to a druggist. In 1847 he entered McGill University and graduated in 1851, afterwards going to Edin- burgh and studying under Simpson and Syme; to London where he entered at St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital, and to Dublin where he worked with Stokes, Corrigan and Graves. A visit to Paris, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna completed his travels, and he returned to Mon- treal in 1853. The following year there was an outbreak of cholera, and it was during that epidemic Dr. Hingston laid the foundation of a practice which he preserved and developed until the day of his death. In 1860 he was appointed to the staff of the Hotel Dieu. His first operation was a re- section of the elbow-joint, that was new in Europe at the time, and had not been done previously in Canada. In 1872 he was the first to remove at one operation the tongue and lower jaw. He was a great surgeon when greatness in surgery consisted in courage, de- cision, and rapidity in operation, but no sur- geon trained in that hard school has ever been able to master the meticulous routine of mod- ern asepsis. Dr. Hingston never entirely ac- quired the technic ; indeed he was never fully convinced of its importance. Sir William was a Roman Catholic in re- ligion, an Irishman by birth, a gentleman by nature, and spoke French as well as English. Consequently he was high in the councils of the church and an important person in the va- rious medical interests which that body con- trols in Quebec. In 1882 he became professor of clinical surgery in Victoria University where he had been giving clinical lectures without an appointment since 1860. Five years later he became dean, and occupied the chair till the union of Victoria and Laval in 1891. From that time till his death he occupied the chair of clinical surgery in Laval. He was three times president of the Mon- treal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and in 1892 delivered the address in surgery before the British Medical Association; in 1900 he was made honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (London). In 1898 he delivered the Shattuck Lecture before the Massachusetts Medical Society. Sir William Hingston had also a public ca- reer. He was mayor of Montreal in 1875, and was appointed to the Senate in 1896. The pre- vious year he had been created knight bach- elor. In addition he had large financial in- terests and acquired a considerable fortune. Ke was well known outside of Canada, and moved with freedom in the larger world, al- wa's impressing bystanders with a sense of ease, dignity and kindliness. Sir William married Margaret Josephine, daughter of the late Hon. D. A. Macdonald, lieutenant-governor of Ontario, and had four sons and a daughter. The eldest son studied