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NAME MILES 790 MILES of pathology and physiology, from 1767 to 1776, and of chemistry and materia medica from 1770 to 1776. Columbia conferred on him an Honorary M. D. in 1768. He was a governor of Kings College from 1770 to 1780. He pub- lished a letter on "Croup" in the "Medical Repository" (.vol. ix) and "Historical Inquiries into the Ancient and Present Systems of Medicine" (1769). He died of cancer of the pylorus in New York City in the year 1781. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1888. Kesearches at Columbia University, Harvard Coll. Library and Boston Pub. Library. Miles, Albert Baldwin (1852-1894) Albert Miles was born in Prattville, Ala- bama, on May 18, 1852. His father, a farmer, removed to Arkansas in 1857 and an uncle Hving in El Dorado educated the boy and sent him to the University of Virginia. In 1872 he entered the medical department of the University of Louisiana, in pursuance of a fixed intention to study medicine. He graduated from the University in 1875, being the valedictorian of his class. In April, 1877, he became assistant house surgeon of the Charity Hospital, holding this position until 1881, when he accepted the post of house surgeon to the Hotel Dieu. On April 4, 1882, he was elected house surgeon of the Charity Hospital and held this office until his death in 1894. From 1875 to 1885 he was demonstrator of anatomy and it is recorded that he never missed a single appointment with his classes. In 1886 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics, and filled this position until the end of the session of 1892-3 when he was elected professor of surgery, succeeding Dr. Logan. His simple, direct style made him one of the best lecturers ever connected with the medical department, and his gentle yet strong person- ality won universal attachment and regard. As a surgeon Miles possessed the clear mind and steady hand that overcame all emergencies. He had great success with gun- shot wounds of the abdomen and wrote sev- eral papers on the subject. An easy writer, he, however, contributed comparatively little to medical literature. Among his papers which were published in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal may be mentioned: "Tracheotomy in a case of bronchocele" ; "Epithlioma and its treatment"; "Report of a case of remarkable control over muscular move- ments" ; "A case of gunshot wound of abdo- men with sixteen perforations of the ileum and three of the mesentery" (Philadelphia Medical News). In 1894 he read a paper on "Thirteen cases of gunshot wounds of the abdomen," be- fore the American Surgical Association ; this appeared subsequently in the "Annals of Sur- gery." His last paper was a "Life of Dr. War- ren Stone." For several years he was co-editor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal; was a member of the American Surgical Asso- ciation ; vice-president of the Southern Surgi- cal and Gynecological Association and presi- dent of the Louisiana State Medical Society. His executive ability was notable and dur- ing his regime at the Charity Hospital many improvements were instituted. The ambulance system was largely his plan, his suggestions assisted in the planning of the outdoor clinical buildings, and the new amphitheatre, which he never beheld completed. To his wisdom is greatly due the founding of the Charity Hospital Training School for Nurses, of whose faculty he was the first dean. James G. Baird. New Orl. Med. and Surg. Jour., n. s., 1894-1895, vol. xxii. Trans. South. Surg, and Gynec. Assoc, 1902, Phila., 1903, vol. xv. Portrait. Miles, Francis Turquand (1827-1903) Francis Turquand Miles was born near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1827. He re- ceived an A. B. from Charleston College, and M. D. from the Medical College of South Carolina, where he became an assistant demon- strator, and assistant professor of anatomy, and professor of physiological anatomy. He was a surgeon in the Confederate Army, and in 1865 resumed his place in the faculty. In 1868 Miles moved to Baltimore and was professor of anatomy in the Washington Uni- versity School of Medicine (1868-9). From 1869-80 he was professor of nervous diseases, University of Maryland ; and from 1880, pro- fessor of physiology. He was president of the American Neuro- logical Association, 1880-82. He wrote "Dis- eases of the Peripheral Nerves" in Pepper's System of Medicine ; "Regional Diagnosis in Brain Disease," 1877; "Electricity in Medicine," 1878. Dr. Miles married Jennie Wardlaw. He died July 30. 1903. Miles, Manly (1826-1896) Manly Miles, physiologist, was born at Homer, Cortland County, New York, July 20, 1826; the son of Manly Miles, a soldier of the Revolution, and Mary Cushman, a lineal descendant of Miles Standish. In 1837 his family moved to Flint, Michigan, where he