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NAME REVERE 972 REX 1860 till 1865, and in 1865 and 1866 at Munich, Vienna and Berlin. His degree was received at Gies§en in May, 1866. From the day of his graduation till September of the same year he served as surgeon in the Prussian Army, in the vk'ar against Austria. Late in 1866 he became assistant surgeon at the eye hospital, Wiesbaden. The following year he studied at Paris under de Wecker, Liebreich and Meyer. In 1868 he removed to America, settling as ophthalmologist and oto-laryngologist in Balti- more. Here he was soon widely known as an operator on the eye. In 1869 he was appointed surgeon-in-charge of the Maryland Eye and Ear Infirmary. He was also at various times oculist and aurist to the Baltimore Home for the Aged and to the German Hospital. From 1871-73 he was professor of eye and ear sur- gery in the Washington University, and in 1893 was appointed to the chair of ophthal- mology and otology in the Baltimore Medical College. He was a member of numerous so- cieties, among others the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Heidelberg Ophthal- mological Society, the American Laryngologi- cal, Otological and Rhinological Society. Dr. Reuling was rather short, of a fair com- plexion, and with dark blue, slightly grayish keen eyes. He wore a small mustache, and was calm, placid and judicial in manner. He was very fond of art and music, and had in his spacious residence a collection of antique paintings. He married, September 21, 1871, Miss Eliza Knelp, daughter of Captain F. Knelp, of Darm- stadt, Germany. They had two children. Dr. Robert C. Reuling, of Baltimore, and Marie R., wife of Richard H. Pleasants. Dr. Reuling died at the Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, November 26, 1915, after a protracted illness. Thomas H.-^ll Shastid. New York Times, November 26, 1915. Phys. and Surgs. of the United States. W. B. Atkinson. 1878. p. 125. Biog of Emin. Amer. Phys. R. F. Stone. 1894, p. 422. Private Sources. Revere, John (1787-1847). John Revere, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 17, 1887, and died in New York City, April, 1847, was the youngest son of Colonel Paul Revere, the patriot of Rev- olutionary fame. His education was obtained from Reverened Thomas Thacher (q. v.), his tutor, and from the public schools of Boston. He graduated from Harvard University in 1807. He studied medicine as a private pupil of James Jackson (q. v.), professor of theory and practice of medicine in Harvard University, and went abroad and received his M. D. degree at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1811. Upon his return he began the practice of medicine in his native city, but resided in New England only a short time owing to the severity of the climate, which irritated a bronchial affec- tion. He went to Richmond, Virginia, where this seems to have left him, and after a short time he settled in practice in BaltiiTtore, Mary- land. While there he became interested in chemistry and thought he had made a dis- covery which would prevent rusting of iron in sea water, having in mind the substitution of copper on the bottoms of ships. In 1829 he went to, Europe and endeavored to interest Sir William Adams in his discovery, but the project failed on account of expense. There Revere renewed his medical studies, and then returned to Baltimore. He became the trans- lator of Magendie's physiology, and wrote : "An Inquiry into the Origin and Effects of Sulphurous Fuiriigations in the Cure of Rheu- matism, Gout, Diseases of the Skin, Palsy, etc.," 63 p., Baltimore, 1822, and "Some Re- marks on the Crude Sodas of Commerce," 10 p., 1827; also several lectures of his were published. In 1831 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was appointed professor of the theory and practice at Jefferson Medical College. In 1841 he was called to the chair of theory and practice of medicine in the Uni- versity of ihe City of New York on its organi- zation, and was professor in high esteem in this institution for six years. It is said that his death was due to typhus fever, which he caught when in impaired health, while at- tending cases in the great epidemic. Frederic S. Dennis. Rex, George Abraham (1845-1895). Born at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, he graduated M. D. at the University of Penn- sylvania, in 1868, and during his earUer life was assistant demonstrator of anatomy there. He was also a fellow of the College of Physi- cians and became a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1881, serving as conserva- tor from 1890 until his death. Dr. Rex was considered the highest au- thority on the myxomycetes in the United States. It was his enthusiastic study of this group which first brought him to the academy, and he was the author of a number of species which, owing to his extreme conservatism, will doubtless continue to bear his name. His col- lection of myxomycetes, presented by his sis- ter, is in the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, but he was also an ardent ad-