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 352 FAMOUS LIVING AMERICANS tember, 1882, to April, 1884, he stnudied surgery in European hospitals. He married Miss Jeannette C. Plamondon in 1885. Mrs. Murphy has always taken the keenest interest in all of his scientific work and has been a great stimulus, as well as factor, in his undertakings. His first teaching position was instructor in surgery in Bush Medical College in 1884. He next filled the position of pro- fessor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1892. For two sessions he was professor of surgery and co-head of the department in Bush Medical College. For the last fourteen years, with the exception of the three years (1905-1908) at Bush, he has been head of the department of surgery at Northwestern University Medical School. For more than thirty years he has been attending and consulting surgeon at Alexian Brothers ' Hospital, and is now consulting surgeon for that hospital, as well as for St. Joseph's Hospital, Columbus Hospital, and the Hospital for Crippled Children. He is now attending surgeon and chief of staff at Mercy Hos- pital. In 1902, the University of Notre Dame gave him the Laetare medal. In 1905, the University of Illinois gave him the de- gree of LL.D. ; in 1908, the University of Sheflfield, Eng., the degree of D. Sc. The Degree of A. M. was conferred on him by St. Ignatius College. He is a life member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie, an honorary member of the So- ciete Chirurgical de Paris, an honorary fellow of the Boyal College of Surgeons of England, and a charter member of the American College of Surgeons. He has been president of the American Association of Eailway Surgeons, the Chicago Med- ical Society, the American Medical Association, and the Clini- cal Congress of Surgeons of North America. PARTIAL LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF DR. J. B. MURPHY Cholecysto-Intestinal, Gastro-Intestinal, Entero-Intestinal Anasto- moeds and Approximation without Suture, Med. Record^ 1892, xlii. Ileus, the Journal A. M, A., 1896, xxvi. Surgery of Arteries and Veins Injured in Continuity, Comptes-Ren- diis du Congres International de Medecine, August, 1897. - - *