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NAME MYERS 845 NEILL painful duties the managing editor could be called upon to perform. No one could enjoy the privilege of a community of interest with Dr. Myers for any length of time without being impressed with his high ideals with reference to all of the different relations of life and being inspired by his scientific, lit- erary and professional attainments. His un- selfishness and his devotion to the cause of modern medicine and to the welfare of society at large were manifested by the self-sacrificing and efficient service which he rendered as editor of this publication for a period of six years and by his labors in the several medical and medicosociologic societies in which he took an active interest and to which he rendered such constructive and far-reaching service. His position in these societies can- not be readily filled. His innate patriotism was revealed by the keen disappointment which he manifested when apprised that he was, for physical reasons, rejected for serv- ice with Milwaukee's' Base Hospital Unit. His conscientiousness, his unusual ability, his gentleness, early ripened the appreciation and admiration of his friend^, colleagues and patients into an affection which the lapse of time will not efface." Dr. Myers was born in Dixon, Illinois, in 1872; after completing a high school course at Ishpeming. Mich., he was engaged in the banking business for a period of five years, after which he entered the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1896. After serving interne- ships at the Episcopal and Philadelphia Chil- dren's Hospitals, he entered upon private prac- tice in Milwaukee in 1900. He soon evinced a leaning toward pediatrics, gradually devot- ing more and more of his time to this spe- cialty, and during the last few years limited his practice to this branch of medicine. Through his active association with the Mil- waukee Children's and the Milwaukee Infants' Hospital and through his teaching position at Marquette University Medical School, as well as through an extensive private and consult- ing practice, he established himself as the foremost specialist in his branch in the city and state. His virility as a writer on med- ical subjects was exhibited during his edi- torship of the Wisconsin Medical Journal. His activity in local, state and national med- ical bodies, gave him scope for the exhibi- tion of his unusual ability. Dr. Myers died from pneumonia, of a few days' duration, July 2, 1918. at his home in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Medical Journal, 1918, vol. xvii. No. 2, 70-73. Portrait. Nancrede, Joseph Guerard (1793-1857) Joseph Guerard Nancrede was born in Bos- ton in June, 1793. His father, Paul J. G. de Nancrede, was an officer under Rocham- beau and was wounded at Yorktown. The boy had his early education in a Catholic seminary in Montreal, where' he started a lifelong intimacy with Papineau, who after- wards played so conspicuous a part in Can- adian politics. Thence he went to Paris, where he received his collegiate education and studied medicine. On returning to his native country he attended the medical lec- tures at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1813 obtained his M. D. Thus qualified, he began to practise in Louisville, Ken- tucky, but soon returned to Philadelphia, where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1822 he married Cornelia, a daughter of Com. Truxton ; her death preceded his own by eight years. At a very early date he was associated with his elder brother. Dr. Nicholas C. Nancrede, in bringing out a translation of Legallois' "Experiments on the Principles of Life"; afterwards he made a translation and abridgment of Orfila's work on "Toxicology." He wrote occasional papers for the medical journals; of these, one was on "Mania a Potu," in the first volume of the Medical Recorder; another, "An Account of the Doctrine of Fevers," by Broussais, in the eighth volume of Chapman's Philadelphia Journal. In the fourteenth volume of this work appeared his Memoir of Dr. Mongez ; and in the sixteenth volume of the American Journal of the Med- ical Sciences, "Observations on a Case of Cesarean Operation," occurring in his own practice, in which both mother and child were preserved. He was instrumental in procuring the first use to be made here of Monoesia. He was also active in causing trials to be made of the sphygmomanometer, and trans- lated an account of its use and application. Nancrede died on the second of February, 1857, in his sixty-fourth year, of phthisis pul- monalis. He died as he lived, in the com- munion of the Roman Catholic Church, leav- ing his estate in default of issue, to his adopted son. Dr. Samuel J. G. Nancrede. No. Amer. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1857, vol. i. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Neill, Henry (1783-1845) Henry Neill, a well-known physician of Philadelphia, and member of an interesting medical family, was born in Snow Hill, Maryland. March 12, 1783. His father, John Neill, son of John Neill, a lawyer of Tyrone,