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HURD in New York, he look a pony, blanket and lariat and spent a year a pioneer in outdoor life, sleeping on the ground, under the stars, and traveling over the Staked Plains of Texas.

Returning to Indiana he was commissioned surgeon in the fourteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.

In 1865 he settled in Findlay, where he lived throughout his remaining years.

Hurd received honorary degrees from the Ohio Medical College, the Columbus Medical College and the Kentucky School of Medicine. His papers included: "Plaster of Paris in

Treatment of Fractures," 1872; "The Identity of Diphtheria and Membranous Croup," 1873; "Extra-uterine Pregnancy with Report of Cases," 1878; "Puerperal Eclampsia with Cases," 1873, of which the association ordered 1,200 extra copies printed for its members; "Suturing the Severed Tendo Achillis in Open Wound," 1875, the fourth case reported at that time. These were some of his most valuable contributions to medical literature.

Dr. Hurd married, in 1853, Amanda Cell. Of their three children, one, Huldah, survived him.

Dr. Hurd was a man of genial disposition, and while brusque in manner, this peculiarity really concealed his philanthropy.



Hurd, Edward Payson (1838–1899).

Dr. Hurd was born at Newport, Canada, August 29, 1838, where his father, Samuel Hurd, was postmaster, justice of the peace and county treasurer.

The boy studied at Eaton Academy, at St. Francis College, Richmond, Quebec, and in 1861 entered McGill Medical School, where he graduated in 1865 with highest honors, winning the Holmes gold medal.

For one year he held the position of "dresser" and teacher at McGill, until his marriage, December 1, 1866, to Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

For four subsequent years he practised at Danville, and at Smithfalls in Canada, where he had a large country practice. Two daughters, Kate Campbell and Mabeth, were born in Canada, and for the sake of their education he moved to Mrs. Hurd's old home at Newburyport, where in 1872 a son, Randolph Campbell, was born. Of these three children the elder daughter and the son became physicians.

In 1883 he was one of the organizers of the Anna Jacques Hospital, and a member of its staff, as long as he lived. His office practice brought him much surgery, as he was harbor physician for many years, and was often obliged to amputate frozen feet or crushed hands, or to sew up long scalp wounds by flickering gas light, assisted only by one of his children. His success was excellent, because he was a quick operator and used plenty of hot water, even before the modern rules of asepsis had been formulated.

For many years Dr. Hurd was city physician, doing strenuous work for trifling pay, because of his love for the poor. He was for two years, president of the Essex North District Medical Society; member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and also of the Climatological Society, and of the Société de MédcineMédicine [sic] Pratique de Paris, France.

After 1882 Dr. Hurd contributed regularly to the New York Medical Record and the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal and other medical publications. His writings from 1885 until his death in 1899, consisted of translations, for the most part, and may be found in his autobiography.

From 1893 until his death he constantly wrote for medical journals. During these years he was professor of pathology and dermatology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and delivered courses of lectures in both these subjects, every year. He never took any vacation, and his recreation consisted in the study of Greek and Latin authors and French poets. Every Sunday afternoon, when possible, he devoted a couple of hours to reading aloud to a friend, the stirring Homeric poems, or lighter verse from Horace.

He died of pneumonia, February 24, 1899, aged sixty-one.



Husk, Carlos Ellsworth (1872–1916).

Carlos Ellsworth Husk was born December 19, 1872, at Shabbona, Illinois, and died at Laredo, Texas, March 20, 1916. Husk was a corporation and mine surgeon, who became head of the medical interests of a large chain of mining industries in Mexico, a man conspicuous in public sanitary matters, and fearless and aggressive in promoting the public welfare; he finally laid down his life in endeavoring to put out a typhus epidemic.

His father, William Husk, was a retired merchant; his mother was Celia Norton. Husk passed through the High School at Aurora, Illinois, and taught in the public schools until 1895. He resigned as principal of the Western