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NAME LUZENBERG 111 LYMAN Missouri. He died March 24, 1916, at his home in St. Louis, of heart disease. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., 1916, vol. Ixvi, 1040. Who's Who in America, 1914-1915, vol. viii. Luzenberg, Charles Aloysius (1805-1848) Charles Luzenbcrg, a surgeon of New Or- leans, came to America from Germany when fourteen and sCttled in Philadelphia, complet- ing his education begun in Landau and Weis- semberg. He was born in Verona, Italy, July 31, 180S. Attending the lectures and operations of Dr. Physick brought out young Luzenberg's surgical genius. He took his M. D. from Jef- ferson Medical College in 1827 and went to New Orleans in 1829, bearing a letter to Dr. David C. Ker of the Charity Hospital, who, after seeing his skill, soon had him appointed house-surgeon. A paper which appeared in the tenth volume of the American Journal of the Medical Sci- ences and the Revue Medicate for 1832 proves that if Luzenberg did not first bring into no- tice what was then a new idea, that is, of ex- cluding light in various variolous disorders to avoid pox marks, he at all events revived it. Two years, 1832-4, were spent studying in European clinics, particularly under Dupuy- tren, and on his return to New Orleans, full of zeal and schemes for improving surgical and medical procedure, he built the Franklin Infirmary, later the Luzenberg Hospital and there performed operations which brought pa- tients from afar to get the benefit of his skill. Among such operations was the extirpation of a much enlarged cancerous parotid gland from an elderly man. This case, reported in the Gaaette Medicate dc Paris, 183S, brought a commendation with a resolution of thanks to the author and enrollment as corresponding member of the Academie de Medicine. Soon after, he excised six inches of necrosed ileum in a case of strangulated hernia. The patient was put on opium treatment and in thirty-five days the stitches came away and he recovered entirely. One other operation he took special interest in doing was couching for cataract and in this he had brilliant results. When Luzenberg had his hospital on a per- manent basis his next idea was a medical school. Being influential, and a friend of the governor of the state, this project, with the help of his medical confreres, was soon embodied in the Medical College of Louisiana with Luzenberg as dean, and, ad i>iterini, pro- fessor of surgery and anatomy. In 1839 he founded the Society of Natural History and the Sciences and to it bequeathed a rich col- lection of specimens. When the Louisiana Medico-Chirurgical Society was legally incor- porated he was chosen its first president. It held brilliant meetings at which the French and English physicians of the state met to exchange views, and it was undoubtedly the spirit of these meetings that caused a college building to be erected for the Medical School, and that started the A't'ic; Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. One thing he had in hand was never fin- ished — at his death piles of manuscript and a fine collection of literature, old and new, on yellow fever, showed that his contemplated work on the cause and cure of the disease would have been a monument of careful re- search. The manuscript was in Latin. A too active life caused premonitions of failing health to go unheeded but in the spring of 1848 actual pain in the precordial region with paroxysms of palpitation and dyspnea totally incapacitated him from work. A thor- ough change to Virginia was planned but while passing through Cincinnati he died on the fifteenth of July, 1848. Lives of Emin. Amer. Phys. & Surgs., S. D. Gross. Emin. Amer. Phys. & Surgs., R. F. Stone, 1894. Lyman, Henry Munson (1835-1904) Henry Munson Lyman was born in the, then Kingdom of Hawaii, November 26, 1835. The Lymans are of English descent, the American progenitor being Richard Lyman who came over from England in 1632 to es- cape religious intolerance. Dr. Lyman grad- uated A. B. from Williams College in 1858, and he received his A. M. in 1876. His first year of medical study was at Harvard, but he was graduated from the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1861. After a year as house surgeon at Bellevue Hospital he entered the medical service of the U. S. Army and was assigned to duty at the United States Hospital, Nashville, Tennes- see. Ill health compelled him to resign in 1863, and in October of that year he went to Chicago. Just before settling in Chicago, he married Sarah K. Clark of Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. From 1867-1876 he was an attending physician in Cook County Hospital. He was on the medical staff of the Presby- terian Hospital from 1884, a consulting physi- cian at St. Joseph Hospital from 1890, and at the Hospital for Women and Children from 1893. In 1871 he was called to the chair of chemistry in Rush Medical College, and in 1876 was appointed professor of diseases of the nervous system. From 1877 to 1890 he