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NAME RANNEY 957 RAUCH tators." His first report was of six cases in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, in November, 1834; he had seventeen cases in five years. He reported a case of femoral aneurism ligated for the second time {North American Medical and Surgical Journal, 1829). His most extensive literary production is "A Memoir of the Life and Character of Philip Syng Physick," read before the Phila- delphia Medical Society in 1839. His face vi^as oval, regular in its features, and expressive of energy of character; in stat- ure he was above medium height, and he ap- peared to be a man of unusual vigor. He died in his fifty-third year, February 29, 1848, from an attack of intermittent fever, attended in the course of a few days with copious hemorrhages (undoubtedly typhoid- fever) . Howard A. Kelly. Lives of Emin. Philadelpliians. H. Simpson. l.i^SP. Emin. Amer. Phys. and Surgs. R. F. Stone, 1894. Ranney, Ambrose Loomis (1848-1905). Ambrose Ranney, New York anatomist and neurologist, was born on the tenth of June, 1848, in Hardwick, Massachusetts, one of the thirteen sons of Lafayette and Adeline Eliza Loomis Ranney, seven of whom became doctors. Graduating A. B.. and A. M. from Dart- mouth College in 1868 and 1872 respectively, he first studied under his uncle, Prof. Alfred L. Loomis (q. v.), in New York City, then graduated M. D. from the University of the City of New York in 1871. Early recognizing the connection of eye strain as a cause of functional nervous dis- ease, he paid special attention to and wrote a great deal on this subject, the most important of his writings being given in the Catalogue of the Surgeon-general's Library under his name. Some of his books passed through several editions and were translated into French or German. Among these is his chief work : "Es- sentials of Anatomy," 1880; also Practical Medical Anatomy," 1882 ; Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis." 1884. and "Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System," 1888. In 1876 he married Marie Celle, of New York City, and had two children, T. Elliott and Marie Bryan. Dr. Ranney died suddenly from heart disease in New York City, Decem- ber 1, 1905. He was a member of the Neurological So- ciety of New York and was president of the New York Academy of Medicine, besides being adjuntt professor of anatomy, LTni versify of the City of New York; and professor of nervous and mental diseases in the L'niversity of Vermont, Medical Department. .Tour. .mer. Med. Asso., 1905, vol. xlv. New York Med. Jour., 1905, vol. Ixxxii. Rauch, John Henry (1828-1894). John Henry Rauch, sanitarian and naturalist, was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1828, son of Bernard Rauch, of German ancestry, and Jane Brown, a presbyterian, of Scotch-Irish origin. His early education was had at the academy in Lebanon, and in 1846 he began the study of medicine under John W. Gloninger (q. v.) in Lebanon; he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1847, graduating in 1849 with a thesis on "Convalaria Polygonatum." In 1850 he settled in Burlington, Iowa, and began to practise. He joined the Iowa State Medical Society, organized at this time, and was appointed to report "On the Medical and Economical Bot- any of the State," the report being presented at the ne.xt annual meeting; he represented the Society at the meeting of the American Med- ical Association (Richmond, Virginia, 1852), being the first delegate from the Iowa Society, of which he became the president in 1858. During 1850 and 1851 he investigated the relation of ozone to diseases ; and about this time secured the interest of the United States Congress towards giving medical aid to "those engaged in maritime pursuits on the western waters," being made one of the commissioners to select sites on which to build marine hos- pitals. He secured sites at Galena and Bur- lington and the hospitals were opened in 1858. He gave the annual address before the State Horticultural Society of Iowa, and was a mem- ber of the Iowa Historical and Geological In- stitute. He spent part of 1855 and 1856 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Professor Agassiz (q. v.), whom he helped in collecting material for the "Natural History of the United States," and he secured a collection, mostly piscatorial, from the Upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers, a description of which appeared in Silliman's Journal of Natural Sciences. Interested in education and in science. Dr. Rauch aided in securing the passage of a legis- lative bill in 1856, authorizing a geological survey of Iowa. From 1857 to 1859 he was professor of materia medica in Rush Medical College (Chicago), retaining his residence in Iowa. He was instrumental in inducing the government to abandon the United States