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HYDE. He was instrumental in bringing about a graded form of instruction in medicine, and "in securing for medical students primarily, and for the protection of the people as a consequence, a higher scale of education and a better type of practitioners" (Wey). His interest in the advancement of medical education was further shown in an address as president of the State Medical Society (1865), when he laid stress on the accountability of physicians to their pupils. He was a member of the American Medical Association, from its organization in 1849; was elected twice to the presidency of the Medical Society of the County of Cortland, and was president of the Medical Association of Central New York.

In 1884 he was delegate to the British Medical Association. He was one of the vice-presidents of the section of Military and Naval Surgery at the International Medical Congress, held at Washington in 1887, and read a paper on "Treatment of Gunshot Wounds in Joints" —he was appointed to the same position in the meeting of the Congress to be held in Berlin in 1890. He was president of the State Normal School at Cortland, and president of the Cortland Savings Bank.

His papers include "Fractures of the Cranium"; "Hernia and Its Complications"; "The Taxis in Strangulated Hernia"; "Embolism and Thrombosis"; "Treatment of Wounds with or without Antiseptics"; "Some notes of 267 Cases of Dislocated Hip, occurring in the State of New York."

Dr. Hyde's death was caused by devotion to professional duties; he performed a surgical operation after a railroad accident and remained with his patient several hours, exposed to cold and without food, and returning home, he was immediately called to attend a neighbor. An illness followed from which he failed to rally; he died on October 15, 1887.

A son was Dr. Miles Goodyear Hyde, physician and author (1842–	), of Cortland, A. B. and A. M. of Yale University, and M. D. Geneva Medical College.



Hyde, James Nevins (1840–1910).

James Nevins Hyde, dermatologist, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, June 21, 1840, the son of Edward Goodrich Hyde, who was for some years a merchant of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Hannah Huntington Thomas Hyde. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Yale College from New Rochelle, New York, although after the freshman year his residence was Cincinnati, Ohio. While in college he ranked high, and received a prize in composition, in his sophomore year, and also a prize for a poem. He seems to have had quite a poetical leaning, and his "Parting Ode," written for Presentation Day, has been cherished and remembered for its beauty of form and general excellence. Again, in 1896, on the thirty-fifth anniversary of his graduation, he contributed a fine poem of considerable length, entitled "The Ivy of sixty-one." He received the degree of A. B. from Yale in 1861, and that of A. M. in 1865.

Immediately after his graduation in 1861 he began the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, under Doctor William H. Draper; but in the following summer we find him helping in transferring the sick and wounded of McClellan's army to Northern ports, during the Peninsula campaign, and in caring for the wounded in the battles of Malvern Hill and Fair Oakes. He spent ten months in the autumn of 1862, and the following winter, in the hospitals of Washington, and in July, 1863, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon of Volunteers, and ordered to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, where he served on several vessels, and was then put in charge of the naval hospital at Newberne, North Carolina. He obtained his commission as assistant surgeon in the regular navy, in October, 1863, and was assigned to the "San Jacinto" and cruised in the Gulf of Mexico during 1864. While on hospital duty at Key West, Florida, an epidemic of yellow fever occurred, in which his two superior officers died, leaving him in charge. His success in fighting the disease was so great that he was the recipient of a special letter of appreciation from the Secretary of the Navy. In the autumn of 1865 he was honored by being commissioned by President Lincoln to join the Ticonderoga of the European Squadron, under Admiral Farragut, on its memorable voyage to various European ports, and through the Mediterranean. During his voyage he employed his time to good medical advantage in the countries visited. Returning in 1867, he was made past assistant surgeon, and served for one year at the Clare Naval Hospital in Washington. He resigned from the Navy in 1868, and after taking the second course of medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, received his M. D. degree from that school in 1869.

From 1869 until his death, Dr. Hyde practised the profession of medicine in Chicago, making a specialty of the subject of