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HYATT positions of public medical trust held: attending surgeon to the Brooklyn Hospital, surgeon-in-chief of the Orthopedic Dispensary. The numerous hospitals to which he was attached as consulting surgeon show the confidence of their medical officers in him.

With all his professional work he found time to contribute to medical literature the results of his clinical observations, in clear, concise, and well digested articles, always of a practical character, and bearing evidence of being written from the bedside, rather than from the study. One of the last papers prepared by him was on "Transfusion," read before the New York Medical Association in 1884. He held membership in many societies, local, national, and international, and also added to his labors that of teacher, having held the position of lecturer on the diseases of women, from 1854 to 1856, inclusive, in the University of the City of New York, and from 1860 to 1867, that of professor of operative and clinical surgery in the Long Island College Hospital. From 1873 to 1875 he was health officer of Brooklyn. In 1880 the University of Missouri conferred its LL. D. on him.

He was the author of a work on "Physiology and Hygiene for Schools" (1870), long in use throughout the country. He wrote also: "History and Observations on Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn, New York, in 1854," and "Contributions to Orthopedic Surgery" (1880).

The suffering and distress that are incident to a weak and failing heart and pulmonary edema were borne with a patience and bravery that were the outcome of a life-long self-control and a reliance on power that is more than human; but the end was quite painless, on July 17, 1887, in Brooklyn.



Hyatt, Elijah H. (1827–1898).

Elijah H. Hyatt, ex-president of the Ohio State Medical AssiciationAssociation [sic], was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1827, and died at his home in Delaware, of apoplexy, December 24, 1898. He was first educated in the public schools, and at an academy near Wooster, from which he graduated, later from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1852, and from Starling Medical College, Columbus, in 1856. He served in the Civil War as captain and surgeon. In 1861 he married Eliza Ely and had three daughters. At the close of the war he began to practise in Delaware, Ohio, soon establishing an enviable reputation as physician and surgeon. From 1875 to 1892 he filled the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the Columbus Medical College. Dr. Hyatt enjoyed a wide reputation as an able surgeon and teacher, and took an active interest in public questions, being highly honored as a citizen.

In 1873 he married Miss Sarah Johnson and had two more children, Frank Hastings and Wendell Gaillard. The latter studied medicine.



Hyde, Frederick (1807–1887).

Frederick Hyde, surgeon, was born at Whitney's Point, New York, January 27, 1807. His ancestors came from England and settled in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1660; his grandfather, Caleb Hyde, and greatuncles, Elijah, Eliphalet and Ebenezer, took an active part in the Revolution and Caleb Hyde, who had moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, went to live in central New York, where he became major-general of the militia and later a member of the state senate. Caleb Hyde's thirteenth child was Ebby Hyde, at different times farmer, merchant and keeper of a tavern; he was father of the subject of our sketch.

Frederick Hyde got what education he could from such facilities as his neighborhood afforded, and before he was fifteen was teaching school, and acquiring knowledge to enable him to study medicine. He began with Dr. Hiram Moe, of Lansing, New York, and continued with Dr. Horace Bronson of Virgil, New York, then, after a course of lectures at the College of Physicians of Western New York, he was able, in 1833, to take out a county license to practise; two further courses gave him a diploma in 1836. He began to practise in partnership with Dr. Miles Goodyear of Cortland, New York, who had graduated with the first medical class of Yale University, and was a man of large influence in his community; his daughter, Elvira, became the wife of Dr. Hyde, in 1838.

In 1845 the two physicians opened a private school of anatomy and surgery, and conducted dissections and gave demonstrationesdemonstrations [sic] before the students. In 1853 Hyde was appointed professor of obstetrics and diseases of children and medical jurisprudence, in Geneva Medical College, and in 1855 he made the agreeable change to the chair of surgery. When Geneva Medical College was transferred to the University of Syracuse, which created a Medical Department, Hyde became dean of the new faculty, and continued his services as