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NAME JONES 641 JONES of the Bishop of Louisiana. His eldest son, Stanhope, became a doctor but died in 1894. Five of his other children were Charles Col- cock, Hamilton Polk, Caroline Mary Cuthbert, Frances Devereux and Laura Maxwell. He died February 17, 1896. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., Chicago, 1896, vol. xxvi. New Orleans Med. and Surg. Jour., 1895-6, n. s., vol. xxiii. Trans. Louisiana Med. Soc., New Orleans. 1896. Trans. Med. Soc., Virginia. Richmond, 1896. Jones, Oswald Meredith (1859-1918) Oswald Meredith Jones was born in Car- narvon, Wales, in 1859, and became an emi- nent surgeon of British Columbia. He began his medical training in the London Hospital ; he passed into the navy, at the suggestion of Sir Andrew Clark, where he became conspic- uous for his surgical ability. It was in his first commission, on H. M. S. ll'arspitc, that he came to Victoria, British Columbia, about 1890. Here he married a daughter of Mr. Brady, a well-known mining engineer of Kootenay. In this city he began his civilian practice and his reputation as a skilled surgeon soon spread up and down the Pacific Coast. Dr. Jones was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, being one of the charter members at the time of the inception of this organization, also a member of the British Medical Association. He was on the board of examiners for the Dominion of Canada, and also for the Prov- ince of British Columbia. He was recognized as a sagacious adviser on medical matters. He played a heroic part in the great World War, and although unable, from physical dis- ability, to serve at the front, he nobly did his duty when the wounded returned. In this ser- vice he exhausted his narrow margin of vi- tality, and to his unceasing devotion was due his untimely death. His great surgical ability was called into special demand; in addition to his regular practice he attended hundreds of cases of wounded men, — scores of cripples, who were battered and creeping about on crutches, through his skill, being restored and literally "made whole." Modest, unassuming, courageous, he shirked no duty nor failed in any emergency. His personal charm and sym- pathy endeared him to his patients. He died of pneumonia April 3, 1918, at Vic- toria, B. C. At a memorial service in Christ Church Cathedral on April 7th, nurses, doc- tors, and returned soldiers, occupied the mid- dle of the nave and the rest of the church was packed with patients ; the bishop preached. His eldest son, at the beginning of the World War a medical student, went overseas with the Army Medical Corps to serve in France, and was there at the time of his fa- ther's death. Dr. Jones's death was felt especially by the officers of the Navy to whom his house was always open ; and the whole medical profes- sion put on record at a meeting held April 5, 1918, the irreparable loss they felt at the death of this Useful and unselfish physician of the Dominion. Canadian Med. Asso. Jour., vol. viii. May, 1918, 455-56. The Lancet, London, 1918, vol. i. May, 684. Brit. Med. News, London, 1918, vol. i, 605-606. Jones, Philip Mills (1870-1916) Philip Mills Jones, reorganizer of the Medi- cal Society of the State of California, its sec- retary, founder and editor of its Journal, was born at Brooklyn, New York, January 17, 1870, the son of Lysander Mills and Pauline Both-Hendrickson Jones. He was a student at the Polytechnic Insti- tute of Brooklyn until 1886, then for a year at the New York University, talcing his M. D. at the Long Island Callege Hospital in 1891. Af- ter practising medicine at Brooklyn until 1900 he went to California to do archeological work for the University of California and was en- gaged in studying the ethnology of the Cali- fornia Indians until 1902. Jones was one of the early Roentgenologists of California, al- though he practised as an ophthalmologist, be- coming in time a free-lance, — radiographer, promoter of constructive legislation, newspa- per writer and ethnologist. His was an alert personality coupled with a keen mind, sound understanding, and a great capacity for work. He had a ready pen and enthusiasm for pub- lic medicine, and was also an effective and forceful speaker. Thus it came about that he was instrumental in reorganizing the medical society of the state in 1902 and in launching the California State Journal of Medicine, its official organ, remaining both secretary and editor until his death from pneumonia, No- vember 27, 1916. For the society he devised a system of malpractice defense, for the jour- nal he reformed the advertising methods in vogue at the time. He started a crusade against unethical advertisements that caused great bitterness at first, but eventually brought credit to the Journal and his standards were adopted generally by state medical journals thro'ughout the United States. As an evidence of Jones's versatility, persis- tence and industry, it is to be mentioned that he studied law and passed the bar examina- tion when forty-five years of age, keeping on