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NAME MANSON 760 MARCH adjutant with rank of major for the state of North Carolina. At the close of the war he settled in Rich- mond, and in 1867 was elected professor of pathology in the medical college of Virginia, to which chair was added a year later that of physiology. He resigned in 1882, and was made professor emeritus. In 1871-72 he was associate editor of the Richmond Clinical Record, and for a number of years, presi- dent of the City Council. Throughout his life he was a diligent stu- dent, an ardent investigator and a voluminous writer. An able physician devoted to his work and one of marked administrative ability, his organization and conduct of the Moore Hospital won for him the highest praise. While living in North Carolina he availed himself of the abundant opportunity for studying malarial fevers, and accumulated a very large library, which contained much lit- erature, both American and European, on that subject, and, in consequence, he acquired a remarkable knowledge of the disease. He was the first American writer to describe "Puer- peral Malarial Fever," an honor eventually gracefully accorded him by Dr. Fordyce Barker (q. v.), who had claimed the priority. Manson was among the first of the leaders who brought the use of quinine sulphate into prominence in the treatment of other diseases than intermittent fever, such as pneumonia, cholera infantum and puerperal fever, advo- cating its use in large doses. Many of his doctrines and methods of treatment received bitter opposition, but are now generally ac- cepted and practised by Southern physicians. He was an accomplished man in other fields than medicine; pure and refined in his tastes, winning in manners. He married, in 1841, a daughter of Spotts- wood Burwell of Granville County, North Carolina, and had six children. She died in 1871, and he married again in 1881, as his' second wife, Mrs. Helen Gray Watson, of Richmond, by whom he had no children. After some months of feeble health from nervous prostration due to overwork, he died at his home in Richmond from an apoplectic stroke, February 1, 1888. He was an extensive contributor to med- ical journal literature, and the following are a few of his contributions: "Quinine in the Febrile Paroxysm." {Stethoscope, and Virginia Medical Gazette, vol. i, No. 2) ; "On Large Doses of Quinine in Fever and Inflammation" (Ibid., vol. ii. No. 3) ; "Endemic Diseases of the Roanoke Valley and North Carolina" (Virginia Medical Jour- nal, vol. iv. No. 1) ; "Quinine in Remittent Fever" (Virginia Clinical Record, October, 1871) ; "The Intermittent Form of Malarial Pneumonia" (Ibid., vol. iii) ; "A Treatise on the Physiological and Therapeutic Action of the Sulphate of Quinine," 1877; "Malarial Hematuria" ("Transactions of the Medical Society of Virginia," 1886). At the time of his death he was engaged in the preparation of an exhaustive work entitled "A History of Fevers from the Earliest Times." A phototype portrait of Dr. Manson illus- trates the memorial sketch of Dr. S. S. Satchwell. Robert M. Slaughter. Memorial of Prof. Otis Frederick Manson, M.D., S.S. Satchwell. pamphlet. Va. Med. Monthly, March. 1888. Memoir by Thomas F. Wood, M.D., 1888, No. Car. Med. Jour. March, Alden (1795-1869) Alden March, of Albany, New York, noted as an operator and an inventor of surgical ap- pliances, won his way to fame although handi- capped by slender means and adverse circum- stances. He was born in the town of Sutton, Worces- ter County, Massachusetts, September 20, 1795. His ancestors were of English origin, and settled in Massachusetts, their descendants be- coming identified with the early history of that state. The name of March first appears in the history of the town of Newbury (now Newburyport) as early as 1653. Dr. March spent his early years on his father's farm, working in the busy season and going to school in winter. When nineteen years of age, by the death of his father, the charge of the homestead devolved upon him for about one year. In the winter of 1817 he taught a writing school at Hoosick, Rens- selaer County, New York, and also spent a part of the summer in quarrying and cutting slate stone for the roofing of houses. His brother, Dr. David March, an army sur- geon, suggested to him the study of medi- cine, and under this brother he began to study Latin, Greek and medicine. In 1818 and 1819 he attended medical lectures on anatomy and surgery at Boston, and graduated M. D. at Brown University, R. I., September 6, 1820. Shortly after receiving his diploma he visited Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y., where an elder brother resided. While here he per- formed his first surgical operation, which was for the remedy of the deformity known as hare-lip. As an operator he was quick, dexterous, cautious, bold and successful. There is no record of his surgical operations during ten