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NAME KEATING 648 KEATING He also possessed considerable ability as an architect, as shown by Christ Church in the city of Philadelphia, designed by him. In 1750 Dr. Adam Thomson (q. v.) published his pamphlet entitled "On the Preparation of the Body for the Small-pox." Dr. Kearsley at- tacked Dr. Thomson's conclusion in a publica- tion entitled "Remarks on a Discourse on Pre- paring for the Small-pox" (1751); which in turn was replied to by Dr. Alexander Hamil- ton (q. v.), of Annapolis, Maryland, in "A Defense of Dr. Thomson's Discourse." He wrote also "The Case of Mr. Thomas," 1760. Kearsley died in January, 1772, aged eighty- seven, leaving a large part of his property to found Christ Church Hospital, a still flour- ishing institution for the support of poor wid- ows who are members of the Episcopal Church. Francis R. Packard. Keating, John Marie (1852-1S93) William V. Keating (q. v.), professor of ob- stetrics in the Jefferson Medical College, mar- ried in 1851 the daughter of Dr. Rene La Roche (q. v.), a writer on yellow fever, and April 30, 1852, their son, John Marie Keating, was born in Philadelphia. From tTie Polytechnic the lad went to the University of Pennsylvania, graduating thence in medicine in 1873 and serving afterwards as resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hos- pital. As physician to the Blockley Hospital and lecturer there on diseases of children he carried on the good work done by his father and was, moreover, gynecologist to the St. Joseph's Hospital. Mothers and children, how to make them healthy and happy, was the chief life-work and pen-work of the genial John Keating, especially in editing the Ar- chives of Pediatrics and The International Clinics, and in working as the president of the Pediatric Society. He was wholly absorbed by his work and a progressive failure of health which necessitated an annual residence in Col- orado was undoubtedly brought al)0ut partly by his unsparing use of his energies. When his brief yearly visits to Philadelphia came, if he was a.sked to go to the hospital he used to say the sight of such an institution made him feel "so horribly homesick." At his last visit he appeared to be so well that his health seemed to be restored. A slight cold developed into pneumonia and on November 17, 1893, the kindly and courageous doctor died. His wife was Edith McCall, daughter of Peter McCall of Philadelphia, and he had three daughters and a son. His most ambitious work was his "Cyclo- paedia of Diseases of Children" in which he succeeded in associating with himself many of the best known men of America and England, producing a valuable and representative book. Some of his other works were: "Mother's Guide for Management and Feeding of In- fants" (1881); "Maternity, Infancy and Childhood" (1887); "A Dictionary of Medi- cine;" "Diseases of the Heart In Infancy and Adolescence" (1887). He wrote also "With Gen. Grant in the East" (1880) ; after accom- panying the general in a trip round the world. Trans, of Coll. of Phys. of Phila., 3d series, 1894, vol. xvi, pp. xxv-xxxviii. Trans. Am. Pediat. Soc. N. Y., 1S94, vol. vi. Arch. Pediat., N. Y., W. P. Watson, 1893, vol. X, pp. 25-48, 324. Portrait. Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc, E. P. Davis, Phila., 1894, vol. xix. Internat. Clinic, Phila., 1894, 3d series, vol. iv, pp. .xi-xv. Keating, William Valentine (1823-1894) William Valentine Keating was born in Philadelphia, April 4, 1823, of old Irish and French stock, — both grandfathers having been officers in the celebrated Irish Brigade of the French Army during the reign of the Bour- bons. He graduated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, in 1840, and in Medicine at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1844, under the prcceptorship of Dr. Charles D. Meigs, having among his fellow graduates Joseph Leidy, Jo- seph Parrish (second) Moreton Stille Ber- nard Henry, J. H. B. McClellan and John Curwen. He began to practise in Philadel- phia, giving special attention to obstetrics. He lectured in the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, and in Prof. Agnew's Philadelphia School of Anatomy, and was clinical lecturer at Jefferson Medical College. In 18.56 he edited Churchill's "Diseases of Children" and Ramsbotham's "Obstetrics." An original work of his own on the same subject which he took to Paris in 1861 for revision was stolen in a trunk from a railway station and the labor of years was irretrievably lost. Upon the death of Dr. Meigs, in 1860, he was elected to the chair of obstetrics at the Jeff- erson College, but before he entered upon his duties his health, undetermined by his large practice, gave way and he was compelled to relinquish his position and to go abroad, with little expectation of further practice. The rest, however, restored him to health and he returned during the progress of the Civil War to work with greater vigor than ever. He was appointed acting surgeon in the U. S. -Army and surgeon on the staff of the Satterlee Army Hospital in Philadelphia, and from there was transferred to the post of medical director