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NAME OHLMACHER 862 OLIVER very few papers he ever wrote was on "Vera- trum Viride in Puerperal Eclampsia." {North Carolina Medical Journal, May, 1879, vol. iii.) He was an important factor in the profes- sional and social life of his time, and might have had high political honors, had he desired them. His personality was striking, his wit racy, of the soil ;whence he sprung; his sarcasm keen, but genial ; his intellect trained and cultivated. He was married twice, first to Eliza Forest in 1864, who died in 1871, leaving two chil- dren, and in 1877 to Elvira Clark, who bore him one child, and died in 1889. The doctor himself died at his home De- cember 18, 1900, of apoplexy. His portrait by Jacques Busbee, the gift of the North Carolina Medical Society, was pre- sented to the State Library on October 29, 1902, Senator Ransom delivering the oration. Hubert A. Royster. No. Carolina Medical Journal, Jan., 1901, vol. xlvii. No. 1. Transactions X. C. Medical Society, 1901. Ohlmacher, Albert Philip (1861-1916) Albert Philip Ohlmacher, specialist in epi- lepsy and vaccine therapy, was bom in San- dusky, Ohio, August 19, 1861, son of Chris- tian John Ohlmacher and Anna Scherer. His early education was had at the high school at Sycamore, Illinois, and he received his medi- cal degree at Northwestern University in 1890. From 1891 to 1894 he was professor of com- parative anatomy and embryology in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago ; 1892-1894, professor of patholog}', Chicago Polyclinic; 1894-1897, professor of pathology and bacteriology. Medical Department, Ohio Wesleyan University; 1897-1901, director Path- ological Laboratory Ohio Hospital for Epi- leptics, Gallipolis; 1901-1902, professor of pathology. Medical Department, Northwestern University ; 1902-1905, superintendent Ohio Hospital for Epileptics; 1905-1907, director biological laboratory Frederick Stearns & Company, Detroit, Michigan. In 1907 he became a practitioner in De- troit, specializing in epilepsy and the treat- ment of infections by bacterial or vaccine therapy. He was author of articles in "Ameri- can Text-book of Pathology" ; "Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences" ; and of papers on blood platelets, cell reproduction, lymphatic constitution, thymus gland, cancer parasite and vaccine therapy. In 1890 Dr. Ohlmacher married Grace M. Peck, of Sandusky. He died at his home in Detroit, November 10, 1916. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1916. vol. l.wii, 1539. Who's Who in America, 1914-1915, vol. viii. Oliver, Charles Augustus (1853-1911) Charles Augustus Oliver, a Philadelphia ophthalmologist, one of the authors of Norris and Oliver's "Text-book of Ophthalmology" and one of the editors of Norris and Oliver's "System of Diseases of the Eye," was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 14, 1853, a son of Dr. George Powell Oliver (the founder and first president of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia). He removed in very early childhood with his parents to Phila- delphia, graduated at the Philadelphia Central High School, and received the degree of M D. in 1876 from the University of Pennsylvania. Having served a year as resident physician in the Philadelphia Hospital, he was appointed clinical clerk to Dr. William F. Norris (q. v.), professor of ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1890 un- til his death he was attending surgeon and secretary to the surgical staff at the Wills Eye Hospital. In 1894 he was made ophthalmic surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital. He was appointed associate clinical professor of oph- thalmology in the Woman's Medical College in 1897, and full clinical professor in 1906. He was for a time consulting ophthalmologist to the Friends' Asylum for the Insane and to the State Hospital for the Chronic Insane of Pennsylvania. He was a member of fifty-six scientific societies in America, and of thirty- three abroad. A tireless worker, like many another gifted ophthalmologist, he was early obliged to pay the penalty for overwork. Having acquired a chronic nephritis, with cardiac complications, he died suddenly from an attack of acute pulmonary edema, at his home in Philadelphia, April 8, 1911. Dr. Oliver's books were left to Harvard University and' to the University Club of Philadelphia; his pictures to Lafayette Col- lege, Fasten, Pennsylvania. His estate, out- side his books and pictures, consisted of only $15,000, for he had been very generous. Of this amount one-third was given to the Wills Eye Hospital, another for the founda- tion of a prize in ophthalmology, while the remainder went to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for the purchase of ophthal- mologic journals. Dr. Oliver's writings were very numerous. The journal articles alone, indusive of ab- stracts and reviews, are said to amount to "several hundred." Thomas H.i-l Shastid. Oliver, Fitch Edward (1819-1892) A Boston physician and antiquarian. Fitch Edward Oliver was born in Cambridge, Mas-