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NAME RAYMOND 961 RAYMOND "A Treatise on Medical and Surgical Gyne- cology," and translated numerous articles for "The Twentieth Century Practice of Medi- cine." Alfreda B. Withington. New York Med. Rec., vol. Ixv. Personal information and personal knowledge. Raymond, Joseph Howard (1845-1915) Dr. Joseph H. Raymond, secretary of the faculty of the Long Island College Hospital and a sanitarian, was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 18, 1845. He was the son of Israel 'ard Raymond and Frances Bryant Howard, both of old New England ancestry. He received his preliminary education at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and was grad- uated from Williams College in 1866, receiving his A. M. degree three years later. He was a graduate in ' medicine of the Long Island College Hospital in 1868, and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, in the following year. After graduating in medi- cine he served on the staff as interne of the Nursery and Child's Hospital and Idiot Asy- lum on Randall's Island, New York, and subse- quently in the Brooklyn Hospital ; spent sev- eral years in general practice and was well equipped in all respects to succeed as a gen- eral practitioner. But his tastes led him to re- linquish the duties of general practitioner and to devote all his time to the teaching of physiology and sanitary science. He was for many years connected with the Health Department as sanitary inspector, sanitary superintendent, deputy commissioner and com- missioner of the Brooklyn Board of Health. Brooklyn never had a more efficient health commissioner than Dr. Raymond. His e.x- perience and training in subordinate positions in the department rendered him peculiarly fit to assume the responsible duties of cgin- missioner. He made no enemies (except law breakers) while holding this office, the duties of which require tact and good judgment in the fulfilment. Dr. Raymond filled the position of secretary of the faculty for nearly thirty years, and was an ideal secretary. His knowledge of the details of the office was always accurate and at his fingers' ends. His long experience in that office must have given one so thoroughly equipped for the work as he was a knowledge of the duties of the position that was in- valuable to the institution. He not only at- tended to the minutiae of the office, but in his interest in the success of the college he fore- saw and bent every effort to secure the adop- tion of measures calculated to further the wel- fare of the school. It was at his suggestion that the late Mrs. Theodore Polhemus, when generously donating a fund for the erection of the Polhemus Memorial Clinic in memory of her husband, added to the clinic building suf- ficient space to be used for the instruction of students ; so that the college had, through Dr. Raymond's foresight, a structure that was ad- mirably equipped, both for teaching and clini- cal work. Besides his work in and for the Long Island College Hospital, Dr. Raymond was interested actively in general and medical education as a trustee of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, a director of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hos- pital, editor for several years of the Brooklyn Medical Journal, author of a History of the Long Island College Hospital and its Gradu- ates, and a standard work on Physiology, as well as numerous papers on medical and sanitary subjects. He was an excellent French and German scholar, and became much inter- ested in Esperanto, attending the Esper- anto Congress in 1908 in Dresden. He served as secretary and treasurer of the Hoagland Laboratory, and secretary of the Polhemus Memorial Clinic. He was at one time medical examiner for the New Board of Education. He was a member of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Society ; vice-president of the American Public Health Association; visiting physician, St. Peter's Hospital. Dr. Raymond, in 1875, married Nannie Van Nostrand Gardiner, who died in 1898. He subsequently married Mrs. Rachel Riddle Craven of Philadelphia, who, with her son and daughter, survived him. He was also sur- vived by a daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Ernest W. Congdon, and one grandson. Personally, Dr. Raymond was a charming companion and associate, alert of body, quick in thought, word and action. His white hair was the only physical feature that made one think of him as a man past middle life. He thought the present times were better than the past, and the future times would be better than the present. Quick at repartee, of ready wit, he could always tell a story a little better than the one told to him. When some one complained that at present it cost more to live than formerly, he replied, "It is worth more to live at present." He made this reply to one who quoted, referring to the great men of the past, "There were giants in those days," "Goliath's bulk didn't save him from little David's stone and sling."