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NAME MANN 759 MANSON 1782, and settled in practice in his native town, and this year Yale conferred on him her honorary A. M., and Brown did the same in 1783. We hear of him next, April 13, 1791, when the records of the Massachusetts Medi- cal Society inform us that "a letter from Doctor James Mann of Wrentham on Dia- betes was received and read." He joined that medical society in the year of its reorganiza- tion, 1803, and published in the second vol- ume of its Medical Communications papers on "Observations on the lymphatic swelling of the inferior extremities of puerperal wom- en" and "Observations upon menorrhagia and leucorrhoea and the beneficent employment of blisters, acetate of lead, and the submuriate of mercury in those diseases." He gained the Boylston Prize, December 31, 1806, by a dis- sertation on Dysentery. During the rebellion in western Massachusetts in 1786-87, called Shays' Rebellion, Dr. Mann was ordered to visit the militia camps and report to General William Shepard. Previous to 1812 he practised in New York, and on the opening of war joined the United States Army as hospital surgeon and was af- terwards head of the medical staff of Gen- eral Dearborn's Army, which was stationed on the Canadian frontier in Northern New York. He was present at the battle of Platts- burgh, and had charge of the wounded on that memorable day. He was invited to lecture on the theory and practice of physic at the Fairfield Medical School, Herkimer County, New York, but was obliged to decline because of his army duties. Brown University gave him her honorary M. D. in 1815. After peace was declared Dr. Mann became post-surgeon (April, 1818), and assistant surgeon (May, 1821). His chief writing was published in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1816 — a book of 318 pages, entitled "Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13. 14, to which are added surgical cases ; observations on military hospitals at- tached to a moving army, also an appendix with a dissertation on the dysentery of 1806 and the winter epidemic in Sharon and Roch- ester, Mass., of peripneumonia notha in 1815-16." This book gives a vivid picture of army life, of the medical questions that had to be solved, and of the surgeons with which he came into touch, but unfortunately the book casts too little light on the personality of the writer. After the war Dr. Mann was elected con- sulting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in place of Dr. Danforth. There he personally assisted in the attempt to reduce the dislocated hip joint of Charles Lowell in the case of Lowell versus Faxon and Hawkes, as related in the biography of M. C. Hawkes (q. v.). In 1821 he was made chairman of a committee of five of the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society "to report on what measures could be adopted to secure a better education of those persons who undertake to compound, put up or sell medicines in con- formity with the prescriptions of physicians." The committee reported to the council in Oc- tober of that year, and the report was adopt- ed. It was about this time that he did a suc- cessful amputation at the elbow joint, re- porting it in the Medical Repository, New York, 1822, vol. xxii, 14-20, under the title, "Observations on Amputations at the Joints." Dr. Mann became a member of the Society of the Cincinnati and of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences ; he did not return to private practice but remained and died in the public service, being stationed at Gover- nor's Island, New York Harbor, when the end came, November 7, 1832. Walter L. Burrage. Medical Men of the Revolution, J. M. Toner, Phila.. 1876. Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolu. War, Boston, 1902, p. 183. Hist, of the Mass. Gen'l Hosp., N. I. Bowditch, Boston, 1851, p. 47. ConinuHi. Mass. Med. Soc, 1836, vol. v, 278. Proc. Mass. Med. Soc, 1791 and 1821. Cyclop. Amer. Biog., Appleton, 1888, vol. iv, Maiuon, Otis Frederick (1822-1888) A physician and surgeon in the Confed- erate Army, he was born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, October 10, 1822, and went as a lad to the schools of his native city ; studying medicine and graduating from the medical department of Hampden-Sidney College in 1840, at the age of eighteen. He at once settled in Granville County, North Carolina, and soon acquired a large practice. He was a charter member of the Medical Society of Virginia, member, and later an honorary member, of the Medical Society of North Carolina, and the societies of other Southern states. The Medical Society of North Carolina chose him a member of the first Board of Medical Examiners, organized in the year 1859. At the beginning of the war he went to Richmond at the request of Gov. Vance of North Carolina to look after the health of the troops of the state, and when a hospital for these soldiers was established, he was selected by the governor as surgeon-in-chief. In 1862 he was commissioned surgeon in the Confederate Army and served as such through the war, acting at the same time as a medical