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NAME PYNCHON 950 QUINAN the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock in 1842. Soon after graduation he settled at Greens- boro, Vermont, and in 1865 removed to Mont- pelier and practised there until his last sickness. He was an active member of the Vermont State Medical Society, and its president in 1871. Dr. Putnam was a man of high pro- fessional ideals. He was wrapped up in his profession, and to the last kept in touch with the latest happenings in the medical world. He contributed manj' papers to the Vermont State Medical Society and medical journals, some of the most valuable being on nervous and mental diseases. He married, in December, 1847, Diana F.. a daughter of Dr. Nathaniel and Fanny Davis King, of East Montpelier. and had four chil- dren, only one of whom, Alice M., lived to adult age. Dr. Putnam died at Montpelier, August 20, 1887. from chronic cerebral meningitis. Ch.'Wiles S. Caverly. Trans. Vermont Med. Soc, 1888-9. Pynchon, Edwin (1853-1914) Edwin Pynchon, prominent ear, nose and throat specialist of Chicago, was born in Buffalo, N, Y., September 17, 1853, and was the son of Lucius K. and Marie Beau P3'nchon. One of his earliest known ancestors was High Sheriff of London under King Henry VHL William Pynchon, another an- cestor, came to America in 1629. His son John succeeded him in the government of Springfield, Mass., and served as colonel of the first regiment of Hampshire County dur- ing King Philip's and the first French wars. Edwin Pynchon received his early education in the public schools of Hartford, Conn., and in a military school in Massachusetts. He studied medicine for a time in Philadelphia, then entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1873. After visiting various American hospitals, he took a post-graduate course at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, where, in 1876, he began practice. He gradually made a spe- cialty of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and in 1883 attended clinics in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and London. Return- ing to the United States in 1885, he engaged actively in the practice of his specialty. He was clinical instructor in laryngology and rhinology at the Chicago Post-Graduate School, 1889-93, professor of laryngology, rhinology and otology at the Chicago Sum- mer School of Medicine, 1895-7, at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, 1896- 1903, at Illinois Medical College, 1905-7, and at Bennett Medical College, 1907-9. From 1912 he was president of the faculty and pro- fessor of laryngology, rhinology and otology at the Chicago Hospital College of Medicine. He was senior assistant in aural surgery at the Illinois Charitable E3'e and Ear Infirmary, and laryngologist to the Rhodes Avenue and Fort Dearborn Hospitals, Chicago. Dr. Pynchon was an active member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryn- gology, the Chicago Medical Society, the Illi- nois State Medical Society, the Chicago Laryn- gological and Otological Society and the Seventh Congress Internationale d'Otologie. He was a Mason and a member of the Ash- land Club and the Club of Commerce. He attended the Episcopalian church. Dr. Pyn- chon was noted as an inventor of many useful instruments, was a pioneer in tonsillectomy, which he did very skilfully by his method of cautery dissection, and was among the first to insist that tonsillectomy was not an office but a hospital operation. Among his contributions to literature are : "The Bete Noir of the Vocalist" ; "Nasal Bougies and Drainage Tubes" ; "The Degen- erate Tonsil" ; "Directions for the Control of Nasal Hemorrhage" ; "New Mechanical Saw for Intra-nasal Operations" ; "New Nasal Speculum" ; "New Nebulizing Device" ; "Pneu- matic Massage in Aural Practice" ; "Surgical Correction of Deformities of the Nasal Sep- tum" ; "Technic of Tympanic Inflation" ; "Ton- sillectomy by Electro-cautery Dissection" and "Tonsillectomy in Children under General Anesthesia — a Hospital Operation." Dr. Pynchon was a linguist and in his later years travelled much in the United States and Europe. He married Bertha L. Eberman, June 21, 1887, but had no children. He died in Chicago, September 28, 1914, following a uremic convulsion. A biographic notice was published in the Laryngoscope of September, 1914. G. W. Boot. Quinan, John Russell (1822-1890) John Russell Quinan, mediqal historian, was of Irish lineage, one of the six children of the Rev. Thomas Henry Quinan. a native of Balbriggan, Leinster County, Ireland, and Eliza Hamilton Quinan, native of Enniskillen, Ulster County, Ireland. He was born at Lan- caster, Pennsj'lvania, August 7, 1822. and edu- cated at Woodward High School, Cincinnati, and at Marietta College, Ohio. Studying medi- cine with Dr. John K. Mitchell (q. v.), of Phila-