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NAME MUNN 834 MUNN Munde's valuable literary contributions com- prise more than ICO articles on gynecologic and obstetric subjects covering a period of thirty years. His book, "Minor Surgical Gynecology," 18S0, had a second edition in 18SS. His "Diagnosis and Treatment of Ob- stetric Cases by External Examination and Manipulation" came out in 1880; his last and greatest work was the re-writing and editing of "A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women" by Gaillard Thomas. The articles are given in a full list in the "Transactions of the American Gynecological' Society," 1902, vol. xxvii, under his name. As a lecturer Munde was a fluent and in- teresting speaker, not a great orator, but one who commanded attention by the forceful way in which he put facts founded on personal experience. Dartmouth College appointed him professor of gynecology, a position he held for twenty years, lecturing in the sum- mer. She also gave him her LL. D. Of his personal character, he was devoted to his family, loyal to his friends, and had a love of truth which dominated all his actions and, through him, all those who were trained under his care. Matthew D. Mann. Trans. Am. Gynec. Soc, M. D. Mann, Phila.. 1902, vol. xxvii. Portrait. Am. Jour. Obstet., W. M. Polk, N. Y., 1902, vol. xlv. Boston -Med. and Surg. Jour., 1902, vol. cxlvi. Gaz. de Gynec, Paris, 1902, vol. xvii. Gynaekologia, Budapest, Temesvary, 1902, vol. xxvi. N. Y. Jour. Gynec. and Obstet., 1893, vol. in. Portrait also in the Surg.-General's Lib., Wash., D. C. Munn, Edwin George (1804-1847) Edwin George Munn, pioneer ophthalmolo- gist of Rochester, New York, was born at Munson, Massachusetts, May 8, 1804, of early colonial ancestry. While still a child his family moved to LeRoy, N. Y. There he had a common school education and studied medi- cine under Dr. Stephen O. Almy, finishing at the Fairfield Medical School in Western New York and taking courses in Philadel- phia in 1828; then beginning practice in Scottsville, N. Y., near Rochester. He stayed there for nine years devoting most of his attention to diseases of the eye, a specialty at that time little developed. Dr. Edward Mott Moore (q. v.) is authority for the statement that Dr. Munn became interested in ophthal- mology because, while he was a pupil of Dr. Almy, there were many cases of sore eyes in the new country and Dr. Almy was unable to help them. He would turn to his student and say, "Ed, for God's sake, try to help us." Thus was his interest in diseases of the eye aroused. Removing to Rochester in 1837, Dr. Munn devoted himself exclusively to his specialty and had a very large following in the sur- rounding country. From a study of Dr. Munn's entries in his records it appears that patients came to him from Arkansas, Mis- souri, Illinois and Michigan, and even from some of the southern states, and it is related that his waiting room often held as many as a hundred patients at a time. It is plain that Dr. Munn was a man of great origi- nality and brilliancy of attainments. He was the second specialist in ophthalmology in the United States. No writings of his have been discovered and his reputation must rest on the fact that he brought relief to a very large number of those suffering with eye diseases in the days when there were few practitioners who understood their treatment. While yet in Scottsville in 1834 Dr. Munn married Aristine Pixley, who survived him in 1912 at the age of ninety-five years. They had three children, one of them being Dr. John P. Munn, of New York City. Dr. Munn died in Rochester at the early age of 43, December 12, 1847. Charles W. Hennington. Buffalo Med. Jour., Dec, 1912. Munn, William Phipps (1864-1903) Physician, surgeon, writer, his father, Dou- gald, of the Clan Campbell, a weaver by trade, came to America in 1845, settling first in Cin- cinnati and later in Pittsburgh. His mother was a McCall ; her people emigrated from Dumfries in 1820 and were among the early settlers of Pittsburgh. Henry Phipps, foun- der of the Tuberculosis Institute of Phila- delphia, is one of the family. After a preliminary education in the schools of Pittsburgh, Munn entered the medical de- partment of the University of Michigan, whence he graduated in 1886. Slim in figure, sandy in complexion and with unlimited "sand" in his disposition, Munn already showed the bent of his nature. On November 8, 1888, he married Adelaide E. Barrett, of Pennsylvania. His medical practice in Pittsburgh had just become well established when signs appeared of the pul- monary trouble which finally caused his death. He removed to Denver in the fall of 1890. Without friends, or money, or experience, or good health Munn so impressed the influen- tial members of the profession that when, m 1891, the Denver Health Department was re- organized under Dr. Henry K. Steele, he was chosen to be one of two assistant commis- sioners. Those were great times in the sani-