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NAME REBER 963 REDDY Gynecological Association and the Medico- Chirurgical Society of Philadelphia. Dr. Reamy died of chronic interstitial neph- ritis, on March 11, 1909, at the home of his niece in Cincinnati. Henry T. Byford. Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc, 1909, vol. xxxiv. Henry T. Byford. Portrait. The Reamy Birthday Dinner, Cincinnati, 1S99. Reber, James Wendell (1867-1916). James Wendell Reber, ophthalmologist of Philadelphia, was born in St. Louis on April 3, 1867. He studied medicine in Washington University, graduated in 1889 and practised in his native city for several years. He was obliged to- forego the advantages of post- graduate schools from lack of pecuniary means, but compensated for these early pri- vations by regular attendance and thoughtful discussions at meetings of ophthalmological societies, and also by familiarity through both writings and personality with the leaders in ophthalmology in the United States and West- ern Europe, for he had early determined to specialize in that branch of medicine. His capacity for work and his close appli- cation to his profession were in evidence from his first entrance into American ophthalmology', and he served with distinction in the Wills Hospital, Jefferson Medical College and many other institutions in and about Philadelphia. At the time of his death he was professor of diseases of the eye in Temple University and at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine ; he was visiting oph- thalmologist to the Philadelphia, Samaritan and Garretson Hospitals and was consulting ophthalmologist to the Friends' Hospital and the Rush Hospital for Consumption and Al- lied Diseases. Dr. Reber was a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryn- gology, serving as president in the latter orgini- zation ; he was also chairman of the ophthal- mologic section of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania and president of the Philadelphia Clinical Association ; in 1914 he was the American representative of the Ox- ford Ophthalmological Congress and delivered an address before that distinguished body. He was a frequent and most welcome visitor at its meetings. His contributions to literature were many and of great merit. His text book on the ocular muscles, which he wrote with Dr. Howard F. Hansell, of Philadelphia, was considered his masterpiece. Dr. Reber was best known as a teacher. One of his greatest interests in life was to "Help and teach his boys," as he called them, and his many students, who later in life be- came his loyal friends, bear testimony to the success of his efforts in this direction. He was married, January 6, 1902, to Miss Jessie Dalrymple. He was a man of many sides, not only a scientist and teacher, but a man of rare cul- ture and refinement — genial, artistic, optimistic and enthusiastic in temperament, possessing a keen sense of humor which attracted to him a large circle of friends ; a man with an abounding sense of honor and justice and above all, of loyalty in his friendships. He died, December 30, 1916, from pneumonia. On learning of his death. Dr. Darier, editor of La Clinique Ophthalmologique, wrote from Paris: "// etait si plein de sante et dc vie. II m'avait conquis par son ardeur au travail, par sa foi en la science, et par son enthousiasine, trap rare aujourd'hui, pour nos reccntcs con- quetcs tlierapeutiques. L'ophtalmologie a fait en lui unc pertc reelle, et tons ceux qui I'ont connu conscrveront longtcmps son souvenir." British Jour, of Ophthal., March, 1917, vol. i. No. 3, pp. 204-207. Ophthal. Rec, February, 1917, pp. 107-108. Reddy, John (1822-1884). This distinguished medical man, who prac- tised his profession in Montreal for over thirty years, was born at Athlone, county of Roscommon, Ireland, March 31, 1822. In ac- cordance with the custom of that day, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon in the year 1839, and remained with him until 1842. In April, 1847, he appeared before the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and received their license in April of that year. He obtained an M, D. degree in 1848 at the university of Glasgow, and held some dispensary appointments in Ireland for a short time, coming to Canada in 1851. Through the influence of friends in Montreal he had been appointed house surgeon of the Montreal General Hos- pital, and immediately entered upon the duties of that office, remaining in the hospital for three years. On leaving the hospital he be- gan private practice in the city. In 1854 he distinguished himself for his unremitting at- tention to the care of the many sufferers who were falling on every hand with the epidemic of Asiatic cholera, which was sweeping over the country. His unvarying kindness to his patients, his cheerful, warm-hearted Irish manners, his already considerable skill and