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NAME RAY 960 RAYMOND— SCHROEDER practice of medicine in Portland, Maine, and soon moved to Eastport, Maine, where, in 1838, he published his first work, "The Medi- cal Jurisprudence of Insanity," a book which has passed through many editions, and has been largely quoted by criminal lawyers. In 1841 he was appointed superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Augusta, Maine, where he remained till 184S, when he accepted an appointment to the superinten- dency of the Butler Hospital, at Providence, Rhode Island. After a short visit to Europe, and an examination of some of the principal institutions of England and the Continent, he returned to Providence, and supervised the construction of the buildings for the Butler Hospital, which was finally opened in 1847. In this work he had the assistance of Dr. L. V. Bell (q. v.) of the McLean Asylum, who con- tributed materially in the arrangement of the details. At Butler Hospital, Dr. Ray remained a laborious administrator and faithful stu- dent, until the year 1867, when, from considera- tion of health, he resigned, and removed to Philadelphia. He was one of the "original thirteen" who, in 1844, organized the "Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane," and was its president from May, 1855, to May, 1859. In 1863 he published a second work, entitled, "Mental Hygiene," and in 1873 a third, entitled "Contributions to Mental Pathology," a title which covered such "contributions" as he had already made in the way of papers, review articles and reports pertaining to insanity. In Philadelphia, where his health improved, his life was far from an idle one. Besides frequent calls upon him for professional consultations, and expert tes- timony in criminal cases before the courts, or in testamentary disputes, his pen was con- stantly engaged upon work for the medical and literary journals and papers for the var- ious associations to which he belonged. Dr. Ray was seldom or never absent from the meetings of the Association of Medical Super- intendents, and kept up the liveliest interest in its discussions up to the time of his death. He was president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, 1856-58, and after leaving the Butler, he practised in Philadelphia until his death. Dr. Ray was an interested reader of re- ligious works, an-d a man of strong religious conviction. His funeral took place at Provi- dence, from the chapel of the Butler Hospital, where his principal life work had been, and the interment was in the adjoining cemetery The Congregational minister who officiated testified, in an emphatic manner, to the depth and reality of his religious character, as well as to the eminence and beneficent influence of his scientific attainments. Institu. Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada. Henry M. Hurd, 1917. Raymond-Schroeder, Ainie« J. (1857-1903). Both general practitioner and editor, Aimee J. Raymond-Schroeder was born in Mon- treaiix, Switzerland, .August 21, 1857. Edward Raymond, the original ancestor of the family in America, Captain Urial Raymond, of the Revolutionary War, also John Alden and Gen- eral Southworth, on the mother's side, are names found on the family tree. She was the youngest ' daughter of Henry J. Raymond, founder and editor of the New York Times. This brilliant man was a strong supporter of Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell (q. v.) in their early struggles for the medical education of vifomen, and this doubtless influenced his daughter in her decision to study medicine. Most of her early life was passed in France and Italy. As her father's daughter, she had access to the best society here and abroad, so that although her education was desultory, it was really one of the best and broadest. Her only degree was that taken at the Wom- an's Medical College of the New York Infirm- ary, in 1889. She was a member of the County Medical Society of New York, and for several years held a position in the out-patient department of the New York Infirmary, and was associated with other organizations, being particularly active in agitating and securing the enactment of better laws regulating the conditions for working girls. Always regardless of herself when others were in question, her professional work was done with a headlong passion of altruism which her friends found adorably character- istic. Her almost unreasoning generosity in giving herself to others proved too much for her frail body, and upon her marriage in 1893 to Dr. Henry Harmon Schroeder, of New York, she retired from active practice, al- though remaining an earnest student of medi- cine and devoting her time to its literary side. She died. December 25, 1903, after an opera- tion for appendicitis. Dr. Raymond-Schroeder was a valued mem- ber of the editorial staff of the Nciv York Medical Record and American Journal of Ob- stetrics. Her one book was "Health Notes for Young Wives." She did much translation from the French and Italian, including Pozzi's