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NAME MONETTE MONETTE educated at Lakefield, Peterborough and Toronto universities. After graduating in medicine he began practice in Peterborough. He afterwards moved to Trenton, where he carried on his profession very successfully. Returning to Peterborough he practised in that city for several years, and was superin- tendent of St. Joseph's Hospital, coroner for the county, medical examiner for the C. M. B. A. and the Catholic Order of Foresters, and first president of St. Peter's Total Abstinence Society. In 1902 he was appointed assistant super- intendent of the OrilHa Hospital for feeble- minded. Two years later he was made medical superintendent of the Hospital for Insane at Brockville. He was transferred to the Cobourg Hospital for the Insane as superintendent in 1910, where he remained until his death, February 24, 1914. He wrote many interesting papers for the bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the insane. In June, 1908, he read a paper entitled, "In- sanity, the General Public and the General Practitioner," at the meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Ottawa. In June, 1909, he read a paper on the "Employment of Women Nurses on the Men's Wards in a Hospital for the Insane," at a meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association in Atlantic City. Dr. Moher possessed a peculiarly genial, friendly personality which endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and he was popular wherever he went. His sympathy and tenderness towards his patients were un- failing and his death was keenly felt by them. Institiitional Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada, Henry M. Hurd, 1917. Monette, John Wesley (1803-1851) John Wesley Monette, who wrote much con- cerning Mississippi, was born of Huguenot parentage at Staunton, Virginia, April 5, 1803. In his infancy his family settled at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was educated. In his eighteenth year he completed the course of study prescribed in the Chillicothe Academy. In the year 1821 his father, Dr. Samuel Monette, removed to the then flourishing town of Washington, the early capital of Mississippi, where he practised. He also di- rected the studies of his son, who had decided to become a physician. Four years later, March 21, 1825, John Wesley Monette re- ceived his diploma from Transylvania Uni- versity, at Lexington, Kentucky. He imme- diately returned home and resumed practice, which he had engaged in some time before the completion of his medical course. On December 10, 1828, he married Cornelia Jane Newman, daughter of George and Char- lotte Newman, and had ten children, but only four survived childhood, George N., A. C, Anna, and Maria Louise. Dr. John W. Monette was a student by nature, and, although he was actively and successfully engaged in an exacting profes- sion, he never lost interest in literary work. He had a large and well selected library, com- posed principally of works on medicine, his- tory, geography, geology, and theology. In 1823, shortly after Dr. Monette began the study of medicine, an epidemic of yel- low fever broke out in Natchez and was soon conveyed to the town of Washington, which is only six miles distant. This afforded the young medical student an excellent oppor- tunity to study the disease as it appeared in his father's practice. Two years later, soon after his graduation, a more fatal epidemic of yellow fever visited Natchez and Wash- ington, both towns being well-nigh depopu- lated. This epidemic afforded to Dr. Monette and his life-long friend Dr. Cartwright, their first opportunity to acquire distinction in their profession. In. referring to their essays on the subject of yellow fever which were written at that time and subsequently, a contributor to DcBoufs Reinew says that they soon gained a reputation as being among the best con- tributors to the medical literature of the day. On December 2, 1837, Dr. Monette read be- fore the Jefferson College and Washington Lyceum an interesting paper, entitled "The Epidemic Yellow Fevers of Natchez," in which he suggested the use of quarantines in restricting the disease. This contribution was published by the Lyceum in its official organ, the Southwestern Journal. The return of the epidemic in 1839 gave Dr. Monette an opportunity to continue his investigations. He shortly afterwards published a small volume, entitled "Observations on the Epi- demic Yellow Fevers of Natchez and the Southwest from 1817 to 1839." When the next yellow fever epidemic broke out in New Orleans in the summer of 1841, he had the pleasure of seeing his quarantine theory put to a test. It is claimed that this was the first time that an attempt was ever made to control the spread of yellow fever by means