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NAME LACHAPELLE 677 LAMSON Lachapelle, Emanuel Persillier (1845-1918) Emmanuel Persillier Lachapelle, of Montre- al, was born Dec. 21, 1845, at Sault-au-RecoI- let, province of Quebec. His parents were Pi- erre Persillier-Lachapelle and Marie Zoe Tou- pin. Dr. Lachapelle received a classical edu- cation at the Montreal College, and took a course in medicine and surgery at the Mon- treal Medical and Surgical School, and after passing his examination very brilliantly, was admitted to the practice of medicine in 1869. In 1872 he was appointed surgeon in the 6Sth battalion and held that position until 1886. In 1876 he was elected a governor and treas- urer of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of the province of Quebec; and in 1885, during the small-pox epidemic, he took a lead- ing part in the working of the Central Board of Health, and was appointed president of the first Provincial Board of Health recently or- ganized. Dr. Lachapelle was the promoter and one of the founders of Notre Dame Hospital, one of Montreal^ most useful charitable in- stitutions. In 1884, wishing to free the hos- pital from debt, he organized a grand kermesse which netted about $15,000 in one week. When the establishment of the branch of Laval Uni- versity in Montreal was decided upon, he be- came one of its most ardent supporters and contributed in a great measure to its forma- tion. He was elected general president of the Saint Jean Baptiste Society in 1876. As a journalist, Dr. Lachapelle was favor- ably known, having been the proprietor and editor of L'Union Medicalc from 1876 to 1882. He was doctor in medicine of Lava! and Victoria University, secretary of the medical faculty of Laval University, professor of gen- eral pathology and medical jurisprudence, as well as hygiene, of the latter institution, and an associate member of the "Societe Frangaise d'Hygiene," Paris. He began practising in Montreal in 1869 and took a foremost rank in the galaxy of young men who about that time were entering on their professional life, and afterwards rose to high positions in Canadian society. Dr. Lachapelle was one of the best known and most respected medical men in Canada, having been closely identified with all the sci- entific, national and political movements of his time. At the time of his death he was in his 73rd year. He went to Rochester, Minnesota, to be under the care of Dr. Charles Mayo, as he had been suffering from cholecystitis. He under- went an operation and seemed to be doing well, but during the heat wave in July, 1918, he suddenly collapsed. A Cyclop, of Canadian Biog., Geo. M. Rose, Toronto, 1888, vol. ji, p. 261. The Canada Lancet, Toronto, Nov., 1918, vol. lii. No. 3, 128. Lambert, Thomas Scott (1819-1897) Thomas Scott Lambert was born in 1819 in Massachusetts, and was educated in medicine at Castleton, Vermont, where he took his M. D. in 1845. He lectured extensively on medical and educational themes and was author of "Human Biology,'' 1854; "Practical Anatomy and Phy- siologj'" ; "Hygienic Physiology" ; "Longevi- ty," 1869; and "They are not dead. Restora- tion by the 'heat method' of those drowned or otherwise suffocated," N. Y., 1879. Dr. Lambert died from pneumonia, March 31, 1897, aged 78. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1897, vol. xxviii, p. 665. Lamson, Darnel Lowell (1834-1894) Although he might be called by some a "Jack of all trades," this man was also master of many. The son of Edward Preble and Lois Jane Farrington Lamson, he was born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, June 18, 1834. He fitted for college at two academies, studied medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School, and afterwards at the University Medical School of New York, where he took his M. D. March 4, 1857, and settled in Fryeburg. Dr. Lamson early became a member of the Maine Medical Association, and was examining surgeon for pensions nearly up to the time of his death. He married September 1, 1858, Henrietta Reede, who died July 17, 1865, and afterwards Mrs. Sarah Matilda Vose Chipman, who sur- vived him. Dr. Lamson had a lucrative practice, and at- tended to it faithfully. Despite his mechanical talent, he never neglected a patient for any pet invention. He was highly thought of every- where within fifty miles of his town, as an excellent and faithful surgeon and physician. He wrote several papers of interest, the best one of them being "Aphasia from Brain In- jury," Maine Medical Association, 1882. He was often chosen as visitor to the Medical School of Maine. Lamson was a born inventor, and had he not adopted medicine as his profession, he would have made his fortune, for with his own hands he invented a working steam en- gine, a double stitch sewing machine (long be- fore such things were ever patented), and a mowing machine with which he lost a fortune by neglecting to get a patent. He improved the telephone, and was an ex-