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NAME LINDE 705 LINING among the Indians, with whom he soon gained fame and influence as hunter and healer. From his blond countenance and numerous deeds of strength and bravery, they called him Muckwa (meaning White Bear). This phase of his life and character is marked by incidents ro- mantic, tragical and humorous sufficient to fill a volume, and in later years he was fond of relating them to his intimates. To illus- trate the difficulties of his practice in the early days, it is related that : During a small-pox scare among the Indi- ans along the lower Fox, he set out on a tour of vaccination accompanied by John L. Wil- liams, famous as the son of the lost Dauphin of France. Despite the doctor's reputation for honesty among the savages, they were still skeptical, and at each place visited they required as a precautionary measure that the operation be performed on his companion. The condition of Williams' arms, as well as feelings, after several days' touring, may be left to the imagination. But the insistent demands of the settlers for his professional services drew him reluc- tantly from the woods and streams, and after practising a few years in Green Bay and Fond du Lac, he settled permanently in Oshkosh. He was the first regular surgeon in Northern Wisconsin and during his long career he was called upon to perform many difficult opera- tions. In keeping with his fine sentiments of honor as a man, his professional ideals were the highest. Dr. Linde belonged to the Med- ical Associations of his county, state and na- tion, serving as president of the Winnebago County Society, and as vice-president of the Wisconsin Societ}'. To these and to various publications he furnished a number of learned papers on surgery. His most brilliant contri- bution to medical science, however, was the use of animal tendon in surgery. To him be- longs the distinction of having discovered its value and first applied it in the treatment of wounds. Dr. Linde was married three times : to Sarah Dickinson, daughter of Clark Dickinson, in 1843 ; to Sarah Davis, niece of Gov. Doty, in 1852, and to Mrs. Hulda Henning Volner in 1858. Dr. Fred Linde, the only issue of the first marriage, was associated with his father until his untimely death in 1880. Two daugh- ters survived Dr. Linde. Besides his attainments in medicine, Dr. Linde was a fine classical scholar and linguist, being able to converse in seven languages. He died at Oshkosh, of senile capillary bronchitis. Stoical in his philosophy of life. during his last hours he discoursed calmly of death, and at the end whispered "How beau- tiful it is to die !" MoLLiE Linde BowE^f. U. S. Biog. Dictn'y for Wisconsin. Reports of Wisconsin Hist. Soc, Harney's Hist, of Winnebago County. Lindsly, Harvey (1804-1899) Harvey Lindsly was born in Morris County, New Jersey, on January 11, 1804, and was de- scended through both parents from English stock, the representatives of which came to this country over two hundred years ago and set- tled in New Jersey. He was prepared for college at the Classical Academy in Somerset County, New Jersey, graduated at Princeton, studied medicine in New York and Washing- ton, at which latter city he took his medical degree in 1828. He was honorary member of the Rhode Island Medical Society and pub- lished numerous articles in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences and other medical journals; also in the North American Review, the Southern Literary Messenger, and other literary periodicals. For several years, 1839-45, he was professor of obstetrics and subsequently, 1845-6, of the principles and practice of medicine in the National Medical College, District of Columbia. He was presi- dent of the Washington Board of Health for ten years and president of the American Med- ical Association in 18S8. He was the author of an "Essay on Origin and Introduction into Medical Practice of Ar- dent Spirits," Washington, 1835 ; "Medical Science and the Medical Profession in Europe and the United States," Washington, 1840; "Address before the American Medical Asso- ciation," Philadelphia, 1859. He died. on April 28, 1889. Daniel Smith Lamb. Lamb's Hist, of the Med. Dept. of Howard Univ., Wash., D, C, 1900. Lining, John (1708-1760) Born in Scotland in 1708, John Lining emi- grated to America in 1730, settling at Charles- ton, South Carolina, where his skill as a phy- sician gained him a large practice, and his sci- entific experiments a distinguished reputation abroad as a philosopher as well as a physician. He experimented early in electricity and was a correspondent of Benjamin Franklin. His meteorological observations extending over the years 1738, 1739, 1740 and 1742, which were commimicated to the Royal Society of London, were probably the first ever pub- lished. In order to determine the loss or gain in body-weight under varj-ing thermic and