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NAME NORTON 855 NORWOOD During 1807." Other writings were "Hy- drocele Capitus Infantum," "Cyenanche Tra- chealis," "Epidemic Cerebrospinal Aleniugitis," "Fuel and Phrenology." His three volumes are entitled: (1) "A Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic, commonly called 'Spotted Fever ;' " (2) "Outlines of the Science of Life," (3) "The Pilgrim's Progress in Phrenology." He married Hannah, the daughter of Fred- erick Beach, of Goshen, on December 22, 1797, and had eight children. One of his sons, Ford North, studied medicine but forsook it to teach elocution at Yale and gained some prominence also as a microscopist. Dr. North's death occurred when he had reached the age of seventy-three, on December 29, 1843. Memoir of Elisha North, H. C. Bolton. Trans. Conn. Med. Soc., 1SS7, 135-160. Dr. Elisha North, One of Connecticut's most Eminent Medical Practitioners. Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., 1908, vol. xix, W. R. Steiner. Norton, Rupert (1867-1914) Rupert Norton was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 21, 1867, the second son of Professor Charles Eliot Norton, the friend and companion of Carlyle, Ruskin, Emerson, Lowell and many other prominent men at home and abroad. His early life was spent among scholarly and thoughtful people, from whom he derived high ideals of duty and service. He graduated from Harvard University in 1888, later studied medicine in Germany and Boston, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Harvard in 1893. He was appointed an as- sistant in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hos- pital in the latter part of the same year, resign- ing after a service there of nearly two years to establish himself in medical practice in Wash- ington, D. C. At the breaking out of the Spanish-American War in 1898, he offered his services and was appointed to take charge of a laboratory in connection with one of the large Southern camps, where he did much valuable pathological work until the close of the brief war. Later he was appointed a med- ical officer of the New York Life Insurance Company in Paris, where he remained until 1906, when the company discontinued its active work in France. In the same year he became assistant superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and held the position until his death. Among other duties he had editorial super- vision of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin and Reports, which he conducted in the spare moments snatched from active and absorbing administrative duties. His accurate scholar- ship, well-trained mind and discriminating and critical faculty art to be seen in these publica- tions. His published writings, which were few, were on topics relating to medical education and hospital management. For many years the "Notes on New Books" in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital were largely written by him. Dr. Norton was interested in the social serv- ice of the hospital and gave much thought and time to it. He died in Baltimore June 19, 1914, after a brief illness of typhoid fever. Henry M. Hurd. Norwood, Joseph Granville (1807-1895) A noted physician and geologist, he was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, December 20, 1807, on his father's farm, about five miles from Lexington. His father, Charles Nor- wood, was a native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, and the son of John Norwood, an Englishman, who came to Virginia about 1740. From Joseph's birth it was decided by his father and the attending physician (Dr. Ridg- ley) that he should study medicine. Later a strongly expressed desire to become a banker resulted in his being placed with Mr. Jacob Winn, a banker and manufacturer of bale- rope and bagging, with whom he remained a .year, who entrusted him for three months with the conduct of his banking business while absent in the East. It happened that a Mr. Snell visited Lexing- ton, giving illustrated lectures in science, chem- tered Transylvania Medical School, of which love for experimental science, which could only be satisfied by reading and private study. At last, determining to study medicine, he en- tered Transylvania Medical School of which Dr. B. W. Dudley (q.v. ) was dean, and gradu- ated in 1836, with special honors; his thesis "On Spinal Diseases" being published in pamphlet form by the faculty. He now en- tered into practice and was called, in 1840, to the chair of surgery by the Madison (Indiana) Medical Institute. He published "Outlines on a Course of Lectures on the Institutes of Medicine." The year 1843 saw him elected to the chair of materia medica in the University of St. Louis ; he found his work and the investigation of geological problems, to which he had already devoted much time and thought, thereby becoming known to the geologists of this and foreign countries, too great a task for even his iron constitution, and resigning most of his private and public work, he accepted in 1847 the position of chief assistant geologist, on