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NAME REDMAN 964 REDMAN experience soon led to his finding himself sur- rounded by a large and increasing clientele. During the thirty years of his practice in Montreal, his perseverance and assiduity knew no rest; he was constantly and busily em- ployed from morning till night, and very often from night till morning, until 1883, when to the regret of his friends, it was observed that his health was beginning to fail. He went to Europe for change of air and rest, but unfor- tunately no return to health was to come to him, and he died in Dublin, January Z3, 1884. Dr. Reddy held many offices of trust. In 1856 he was appointed attending physician of the Montreal General Hospital, a post he held until he retired upon the consulting board. In 1856 he received the degree of M. D. ad eundem from McGill College, and for many years served as representative fellow in medi- cine in the corporation of that university. He was a member of the Medico-Chirur- gical Society and was a long-service officer in the volunteer militia, having been surgeon of the Montreal Garrison Artillery. He married Jane Fleming, July 1, 1851. They had six children. One son, H. L. Reddy, M. D., succeeded him in practice. His was a quiet, unostentatious, busy, blame- less life. Among the arious contributions he made to medical literature of Canada may be men- tioned : "On the treatment of aneurysm by compression and injection with the perchloride of iron" (1858) ; "Pneumonia of right lung" (1879-80); "Case of temporary diabetes" (1879-80) ; "Case of rupture of mitral valve" (1880) ; "Case of tetanus neonatorum" (1881- 2). A Cyclop, of Canadian Biog. Geo. M. Rose. Toronto. 1888, pp. 85-86. Canadian Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. .xii, 1883-84. pp. 444. Redman, John (1722-1808). The materials for a biography of John Red- man are somewhat scanty, yet all writers agree he deserved to be remembered as one who did good service in Philadelphia in or- ganizing the College of Physicians, as a teach- er, and for the share he took in laboriously combating the yellow-fever epidemic there in 1792. He was born in Philadelphia, February 27, 1722, and went for his education first to a school kept by the Rev. William Tennent and afterwards to study medicine under Dr. John Kearsley, Jr. ; soon after he was heard of in Bermuda practising as a doctor. He was next seen in Edinburgh "walking" the hospitals, then on to Paris to study new methods, and from there to Leyden, where he graduated M. D. in 1748. Not content with this amount of experience he returned to England and worked some time at Guy's Hospital, so one is not surprised to learn that on settling in Philadelphia he "soon built up a lucrative practice." In 1751 he was elected a member of City Councils; in 1762 he was trustee of the Col- lege of Philadelphia until it joined the Uni- versity of the State of Pennsylvania and be- came the University of Pennsylvania (1791), when he resigned, and he was a member of the American Philosophical Society from 1768. His paper "De Abortu," appeared in 1748; in 1751 he was elected a consulting physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital and held the position twenty-nine years, and from 1787 to 1805 was president of the College of Phy- sicians, having been the first president of that body and a most efficient and faithful officer, being rarely absent from its meetings. In 1759 he published "A Defence of Inocu- lation," and a pamphlet on the "Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1762,'' which he read before the College of Physicians in 1793, when a greater epidemic was raging, and he was attending some eighteen or twenty new cases daily. He based his treatment on "Purgutation with Glauber's salts, sustaining the patient with cordials or wine, with an antiemetic of tartar vitriolat gr. x and a half or whole drop of ol. cinnamon in a spoonful of simple mint and two spoonfuls of decoction of snakeroot every two hours." In order to lessen danger of contagion he had a bowl of vinegar kept in the room and a hot iron occasionally plunged into it; he himself when there always kept tobacco in his mouth to prevent the swallowing of saliva, the only precaution used, as he found the use of many preservatives to affect his mind "with such fears as I thought were likely to render me more susceptible of infection than the omission of them." Redman had two attacks of fever and in 1762 developed liver disease and was obliged to restrict his practice, not retiring, however, until 1784. His pupils. Rush and Shippen, and many others, always kept a warm friendship for the old doctor. Dr. Redman was an elder of the Second Presbyterian Church for many years, and was a trustee of Princeton College. He "was somewhat below the middle stat- ure, his complexion was dark, his eyes black and uncommonly animated ; and his gesture and speech such as indicated a mind always