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NAME JELLY 621 JENKINS thalmic surgery and helped found the Massa- chusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Intirraary hi Boston in 1824. Walter L. Burrage. The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Harv. Graduates Mag., June, 1916, Alexander McAdie, 605-610. Med. Commun. Mass. Med. Soc, 1822, vol. iii, 415-417. Hist. Harv. Med. School, T. F. Harrington, 1905, vol. i, 41-44. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Jelly, George Frederick (1842-1911) George Frederick Jelly was born in Sa- lem, Massachusetts, January 22, 1842. He was graduated from Brown University in 1864, re- ceiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M., and in 1907 that of Sc. D. He graduated at the Harvard Medical School in 1867 and was house officer at the Boston City Hospital in 1868. He then began private practice in Springfield, Mass., but in 1869 received an ap- pointment to the McLean Hospital (a semi- public insane hospital then situated in Somer- ville, Mass.) and in 1871 was made superin- tendent, when only 29 years old. He resigned from this post in 1879 and entered private practice in Boston as a specialist in mental diseases, and gained an important place in the community. He was appointed exam- iner for the insane for the city, a posi- tion which he continued to fill until shortly be- fore his death. When the State Board of In- sanity was organized in 1898 he was imani- mously selected chairman, and held that posi- tion until 1908, when he resigned because of failing health. He was a diligent worker in the cause of the insane in all its details and was the first to suggest in an annual report the need of an observation hospital for cases of mental disease, a project that afterwards saw its fruition in the "Psychopathic Hospi- tal." Dr. Walter Channing says of him : "Dr. Jel- ly's services were extensively sought as a con- sultant and as an expert in court. He was thor- ough and deliberate in forming his opinions and absolutely honest and fearless in his ex- pression of them, and was always true to his convictions. As a result he gradually acquired the reputation of a man without fear and without reproach, whose judgments were sound and reliable. He was the most gentle, loyal and tender of physicians and friends, al- ways anxious to serve and expecting nothing in return. His life was a continual glad sac- rifice to duty, and he broke down under the strain and died." He was twice married but had no children. He is remembered at the McLean Hospital as the first superintendent to place women nurses on the men's wards and as one of the best loved by the patients of any physician ever in its service. He died October 24, 1911, in the seventieth year of his age. jjenry M. Hurd. Jenkins, John Foster (1826-1882) John Foster Jenkins, successful general practitioner, secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission, and medical bibliophile, was born at Falmouth, Massachusetts, April IS, 1826, the eldest son of the Hon. John Jenkins and his wife Harriet, in a family of nine boys and one girl. He went to boarding school to the Rev. Lynch at Roxbury, Mass., and from there entered the Junior class at Brown University in 1842; two years later he entered Union College and graduated in arts in 1845. He began to read medicine under Dr. Alexan- der M. Vedder of Schenectady, New York, and took his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, adding an extra course in didactic and clinical lectures at Har- vard the following year. From 1849 to 18S6 he practised in New York City. During the years 1850 and 1851 he spent seven months in Europe. In October, 1854, he married Miss Elizabeth Sicard David of Philadelphia. In May, 1856, he settled in Yonkers, and practised medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. Being a staunch Union- ist he enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in August, 1861, as associate secretary of the San- itary Commission. On the retirement of Fred- erick Law Olmstead in 1863, he was elected to the responsible office of general secretary, which he held until his health gave way in May, 1865. The vast activities of the Sanitary Commission were largely directed by him, em- ploying an average of some 300 agents. The entire board and many laymen and surgeons gave their time without compensation. He wrote on puerperal mania connecting it with a toxic state of the blood and differing from a pyemia. (Amer. Med. Monthly, Nov. 1857). Following Stephen Smith's 79 cases (1885), Jenkins collected 178 cases of sponta- neous hemorrhage of the cord of the new- born. (Trans. Am. Med. Asso. 1858; see Amer. Jour. Med. ScL, 18,S9.) His paper on Tent Hos- pitals (1874) is noteworthy. As president of the medical society of the county of West Chester he delivered a notable address on the relations of war to medical sci- ence, a resume of his experiences in the Sani- tary Commission. In 1878 he went to Europe for the third time