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Cystitis in the Female, Drainage in Obstinate Chronic Cystitis in the Female, Last Wound and Death of Stonewall Jackson, &c.

Since 1889 Dr. Mrdnirc had given every year a prize of $100 for the best <->say by a member of the Virginia Medical Society on an annually announced subject.

Dr. McGuire was a great teacher. He loved teaching. He began his career as a professor in the Winchester Medical College, and then as a quiz master in Philadelphia, He entered it as a Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University College of Medicine, after hav- ing been for years the occupant of a similar chair in the Medical Col- lege of Virginia. He delivered his last lecture on the roth of March, when lectures were suspended for examination. On that occasion he called the attention of his class to the fact that during the entire ses- sion he had not missed a lecture, nor had one of the many patients which he had brought before the class in that time failed of recovery.

Dr. McGuire was a superb teacher. His direct manner, his sim- ple, lucid style and his thorough group of every phase of his branch enabled him to impart knowledge with wonderful facility. His stu- dents honored him as one of the greatest of his profession, and loved him as a man who knew so well the difficulties of the road along which he led them, and who was always ready to sacrifice precious time if thereby he might help them onward.

DR. McGUIRE IN THE ARMY. THE TRIBUTE OF REV. JAMES P. SMITH, D. D.

It would be difficult to find a veteran of the Confederate army who rendered a service as loyal, as efficient, as valuable to the Con- federacy as Hunter McGuire. If his service was rendered at the camp and in the hospital, rather than on the battle line, there was yet no greater devotion and no more zealous and able discharge.of the duty assigned him. His service as surgeon and medical director of an army corps was felt on the battle line, in the care of the health of the camp, and in the lives that were saved for service at the hos- pitals.

When he came to Harper's Ferry, at the very outbreak of the war, he bore the first commission of surgeon given by the State of Virginia. He was so young and so youthful in appearance that