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NAME HORR 5S8 HORSFIELD Philadelphia (American) Journal of the Medi- cal Sciences. Charles R. Bardeen. William E. Horner, M. D., a discourse delivered before the faculty and students of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Oct. 3, 1853, with bibliography, by Samuel Tackson. M. D., Philadelphia; T. K. and P. G. Collins, Printers, 1853. Gross, Lives of Emin. Amer. Phys, Philadelphia, 1861, 697-721., ,. Boston Med. and Surg. .Tour., 1849-50, vol. xli. New Jersey Med Reporter, Burlington, 1854, vol. vii. Horr, Asa (1817-1896). Asa Horr, surgeon and scientist, was born in Worthington, Ohio, September 2, 1817; the family name was spelled Hoar originally. He received his M. D. at the Cleveland Medical College in 1846, and began to practise at Balti- more, Ohio, but in 1846 removed to Galena, Illinois, and in 1847 moved to Dubuque, Iowa, which was his home the remainder of his !ife. He was intensely interested in botany, min- eralogy, astronomy and meteorology, and with Professor Lapham of Milwaukee was the in- ventor of the present method of forecasting the weather for the United States weather reports. He established a private astronomical observatory at Dubuque in 1864 and "was the first to determine accurately the longitude of that city" (Appleton). He was a meteorolog- ical observer to the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years. Jointly with John M. Bigelow he published a "Catalogue of the Plants of Franklin County, Ohio." During the Civil Vi'ar he was examining surgeon to the U. S. recruiting service and in 1875 was made examining surgeon to the United States Pension Bureau. He was president of the Dubuque County Medical Society; a founder of the Iowa In- stitute of Science and Arts (1868), and elected its president in 1869; president of the St. Paul, Minnesota, Academy of Natural Scien- ces, and of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences in 1871 ; of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1872; of the .Ameri- can Public Health Association in 1875. He ■was one of the hundred American and Eng- lish shorthand writers chosen to make im- provements in phonography. In 1841, at Baltimore, Ohio, Dr. Horr mar- ried Eliza, daughter of Jonathan Sherman, of Worthington, Ohio ; in 1868 he married Mrs. Emma F. Webber of Pittston, Maine. He died at his home in Dubuque, June 2, 1896. Phys. and Surgs. of the United States, W. B. Atkinson. Philadelphia. 1878. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., New York, 1888. Nat. Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., New York. 1906, vol. viii, p. 123. Hon-, Oren Alonzo (1834-1893). Here was a remarkable man, an excessively earnest worker in medicine, one born a physi- cian. He first saw the light in Waterford, Maine, October, 1834, was educated at three academies, and graduated from Bates College in the class of 1858. He studied medicine at the Medical School of Maine, then in New York, and returned to the Medical School of Maine, from which he graduated in 1861. He first practised in Nor- way, Maine, married Elizabeth Kingman, and in 1863 moved to Minot. In September of that year he was appointed assistant surgeon of the one hundred and fourteenth United States Negro Regiment, and went with it to Texas, remaining there through the war. While with his regiment he made great ad- vances as a surgeon, and became an adept in autopsies. Hard work brought on poor health, but by 1870 he was practically well and began again practising at Lewiston, Maine, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Doctor Horr was long an active member of the Maine Med- ical Association, an earnest supporter of the Central Maine Hospital. In 1886 he made a prolonged stay in Europe, investigating recent advances in medicine. In a short biography it is difficult to characterize so popular a physician. He was a constant attendant at medical meetings, a keen de- bater, and a first rate clinician. His medical papers were instructive, well built, well thought out and tersely written. Few men could write better than Dr. Horr upon "Croup," "Extirpation of the Ovaries," and "Plaster of Paris in Surgery" ("Transactions Maine Med- ical Association," 1879.) In the midst of his career he was cut short, May 28, 1893, by septicemia, contracted from an autopsy in a criminal case. James A. Spalding. Trans. Maine Med. .Assoc, 1893. Horsfield, Thomas (1773-1859). Thomas Horsfield was born at Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, May 12, 1773, and died at Lon- don, England. July 14, 1859. He studied medi- cine in Philadelphia, receiving the degree of M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania, in May. 1798; his thesis was "An experimental dissertation on the Rhus vernix, Rhus radi- cans, and Rhus glabrum." In the following year he went out as a sur- geon in a merchant vessel, and in the course of the voyage visited Batavia, in the island of Java ; he was so impressed with the beauty of the scenery and the richness of the vege- tation that upon his return home he secured