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NAME HOOD SSI HOOPER and Hanover counties, and continued to prac- tise until his death. He is said to have been a profound student and scholar, and a great reader, and to have possessed a marvelous memory. He read more and remembered more of what he read than any man in Virginia. At the age of sixty he is said to have begun the study of Italian, as he desired to read that also. In the earlier years of his practice, when all inflammatory diseases showed a highly sthenic type, he used heroic treatment and did not spare the use of the lancet. Later on, when their type became more asthenic, he abandoned the use of the lancet and resorted to free emesis followed by a stimulating treatment. He was stern in deportment and violent and demonstrative in his resentments. If any one questioned or complained of his bill under no circumstances would he visit him again. The following extract from his will, which is rec- orded at Hanover Court House, is of interest: "I also give and bequeath to my son my ther- mometer, my diploma of doctor of physic, and also a human rib, which will be found in a small trunk in :ny chest, with my earnest re- quest that he will carefully keep the said rib, which is of James V., King of Scotland, and transmit it carefully to his descendants." He married Mildred Brown, a woman of rare beauty and accomplishments, and was the progenitor of some distinguished men. He died in 1824, leaving a large fortune amassed by his practice, and is said to have written and published numerous articles. Robert M. Slaughter. Hood, Thomas Beal (1829-1900). The son of a Dr. James Hood, he was born on March 19, 1829, in Fairview, Ohio. In 1840 he went to Brownsville, Ohio, and remained there about three years as help in a store. His father, who had loaned considerable money on the so-called "wild lands" of Illinois, sent him early in the winter of 1849 into Brown, McDonough and Schuyler counties, Illinois, to foreclose the mortgages. He set- tled mortgages, ousted squatters and compro- mised litigations and returned home with sev- eral thousand dollars in gold concealed in his belt. Then he went to Baltimore to attend lectures in the medical department. University of Maryland, but returned home to Gratiot, Ohio, before graduation. He began to practise medicine with his father. In 1850 he married Margaret, daughter of Samuel Winegarner, but she died a few months afterwards. A little later he began practice at Columbus, Ohio, where in June, 1854, he married Mary Hyde, widow of Dr. Eliphalet Hyde and daughter of William G. Boggs. He graduated M. A. in 1874 at Ohio Wes- leyan University and took his M. D. in 1862 at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1861 he went to Cleveland, appeared before the Faculty, Medical Department West- ern Reserve College, and passed an examina- tion. On November 6 he was appointed as- sistant surgeon. Seventy-sixth Ohio Volun- teers. He left Newark with the regiment Feb- ruary 6, 1862, and ten days later was in the battle of Fort Donaldson. He was mustered out October 13 and resumed practice at New- ark, Ohio. In 1867 he was appointed assistant in the Provost Marshal General's Office, Wash- ington, under the direction of Surgeon (after- wards Surgeon-General) Jedediah H. Baxter. Dr. Hood was professor of anatomy 1870-71, practice of medicine 1877-91, diseases of the nervous system 1892, and dean of the medical faculty 1881-1900 in Howard Medical School. He died on March IS, 1900. Daniel Smith Lamb. Lamb's Hist, of Med. Dept., Howard Univ., D. C. Minutes of Med. Soc, D. C. March 21 and 28. 1900. Trans. Med. Soc., D. C. 1900, vol. v Nat. Med. Rev., 1900-1901, vol. x. Hooker, Worthington (1806-1867). Worthington Hooker was born in Spring- field, Massachusetts, March 3, 1806, and died in New Haven. Connecticut, November 6, 1867. He was graduated at Yale in 1825 and received his medical degree at Harvard in 1829, when he settled in Norwich and practised his pro- fession. From 1852 until his death he was pro- fessor of the theory and practice of medicine in Yale. In 1864 he was made vice-president of the American Medical Association, and as a member of committees made several im- portant reports. He was the author of a series of scientific books for the young and of several profes- sional works, including "Physician and Pa- tient" (New York, 1849) ; "Homeopathy ; an Examination of Its Doctrines and Evidences" (1852) ; "Human Physiology for Colleges and Schools" (1854) ; "Rational Therapeutics" (1857) ; "The Child's Book of Nature" (1857), and "Tlie Child's Book of Common Things" (1858). Appleton's C>-clop. Amer. Biog., New York. 1887. vol. iii, p. 251. Hooper, Franklin Henry (1850-1892). Franklin Henry Hooper, laryngologist, son of Robert C. Hooper, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on September 19, 1850. He was