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HUTCHINSON from the first, he acquired a large private practice besides many honorable professional positions. During the Civil War he served for a time as acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, and was one of the physicians to the Children's Hospital, the Episcopal Hospital, and the Pennsylvania Hospital, to which institution his grandfather had also been physician. He was a member and eventually president of the Philadelphia Pathological Society, elected to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1863, and was also a member of his county and state medical societies, and of the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Hutchinson was noted for the correctness and dignity of his style, saying just what he meant in few but well chosen words, and rigidly avoiding all flowery excrescences and ambiguities of language. He never inflicted upon the profession or the public an independent volume, but he edited—and well edited— two reprints of Dr. Bristowe's "Practice of Medicine"; contributed elaborate articles, which have already become classical, on typhoid, typhus, and simple continued fevers, to the "System of Medicine," edited by Dr. Pepper and Dr. Starr; and was a valued contributor to the "Transactions of the College of Physicians." For more than a year he was the editor of the Philadelphia Medical Times in its early days. The skill with which he edited Dr. Bristowe's work was fully recognezedrecognized [sic] by its author who, when the second American edition was about to appear, wrote to Dr. Hutchinson, expressing his "sense of the care and trouble bestowed on the first reprint.

Dr. Hutchinson married Ann Ingersoll, and had six children. One, James P. Hutchinson, after graduating in medicine, devoted himself to the practice of surgery.



Hutchinson, Edwin (1840–1887).

There is a piece of very concrete biography embodied in St. Elizabeth's Hospital at Utica, New York, a biography, in short, of one who, in spite of personal ill-health and short years, was long remembered for his ability as an ophthalmologist and as a founder of the hospital mentioned.

The son of Holmes Hutchinson of Utica, he was educated in James Lombard's School, the Utica Academy, and at Yale, afterwards studying medicine in the Long Island College Hospital Medical School, and graduating M. D. from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1866.

Like most young men at that time he went to the war and was successively surgeon to the third Maryland Volunteer Infantry and the one hundred and thirty-seventh New York Volunteers, taking charge in the latter of Gen. Geary's hospital, under Gen. Sherman, in his famous march through Georgia.

At the close of the war he settled down in New York, and became known for his surgery, especially in eye disease, though his right forearm, through an early accident, was almost immovably fixed.

He recognized the need of a hospital for the proper treatment of those who could pay, and those who could not, so, with his friend, Dr. J. E. West, an embryo hospital was established, to grow gradually larger and attract students because of its founder's skill.

In 1886 he married Miss Christine Rosswog, and found time to write valuable articles on his specialities to the American Journal of Insanity and the New York State Medical Transactions. But during the last four years of his life he had to go south every winter, and succumbed at last to kidney disease, in the hospital he had founded. Only a few days before his death he joined the Roman Catholic church, though reared as a Protestant. "I loved him dearly," writes his biographer, "for he had an amiability, a tenderness, a love of all things beautiful—rare among men."



Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman (1827–1887).

Joseph Chrisman Hutchison was born in Old Franklin, Missouri, February 22, 1827, the son of Nathaniel Hutchison, M. D., a native of Armagh, Ireland; and of Mary Chrisman, of Fauquier County, Virginia. He graduated from the University of the State of Missouri, at Columbia, and in 1848 received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, after a partial course in Jefferson Medical College. In 1849 he married Susan H., daughter of Rev. A. and Martha Cowles Benedict, of Farmington, Connecticut.

For a few years he practised medicine in Missouri, but in 1853 removed to Brooklyn, with the interest of which, medical, sanitary, and educational, he became closely and actively identified. In 1854 he had charge of the cholera hospital in Brooklyn, and the successful treatment of cholera patients was in a large part due to his skilful and well organized efforts. His constant interest in the medical work of the city was manifested in the various