than the higher race. But the gummata they have eat them up faster than anything I have ever seen. I have seen a negro with a gumma of the throat, which from their own say so, has caused no consciousness of any swelling in the throat or difficulty in swallowing three weeks before, come in with the entire soft palate and the pillars of the tonsils gone. It seems to me they have gummata in the throat more often than anywhere else. Possibly that is because all of these cases in the dispensary are referred to my department.

Another thing Dr. Murrell has spoken of is the medication. If you place two men, one white and one black, side by side with the tertiary condition, the negro will take the medication until he gets well of the actual condition present, then he will stop, but the negro will be well in half the time that the white man takes. Their response to the remedies is marvelous in my experience. I have seen gumma involving the entire postpharyngeal region and the soft palate healed inside of three weeks, at which time there was no vestige of a raw place. Of course, the cicatrices from these conditions in the throat are practically irremediable. You may get a cicatrix that narrows the isthmus of the fauces, so that the patient can never swallow solid food. You can stretch the cicatrix, but it will return. Yet the negro responds to antisyphilitic remedies far more quickly than the white race.

DR. W. S. BUTLER, Roanoke: I do not mean to lay any claim to such a wide experience as my friend Dr. Maxwell, but my very limited experience, professional experience of course, leads me to agree with Dr. Murrell, that all negroes, where you can get them to take treatment respond very much more readily to treatment than white people.

DR. THOMAS W. MURRELL, Richmond, concluding the discussion: It is very nice to hear the kind words the gentlemen have said. I agree with Dr. Jones: I have no remedy. It is too big a thing for me to tackle. We have our societies for the prevention of the spread of venereal diseases and we all have our ideas. But, gentlemen, as a young man of the South, and most of us here are young men of the South, we are pardonable to have all the love of country that a man can have, because we have the kind of country to love and we are confronted by a problem such as I believe no other part of the country confronts. I have felt almost hopeless, downhearted, but in our school we have a fairly large percentage of Northern students, and they have come to me at times and told me they had no idea of the existence of such conditions in the South.

To get a remedy we have got first to get everybody interested in it, and we have got to have consideration. If, as Dr. Jones suggests, we pass some law as that of Moses, and circumcise them all, we would no doubt get opposition from some quarters. If we started to take any measures that assumed the duty of paternal government, there would be no doubt a cry from numerous societies and individuals north of the Mason and Dixon line. As said in my paper, I believe the white man is essentially a white man, no matter where you find him. The Northern man does not know the condition of the negro. The Northern man, the Northern doctor, for instance, will take a census and see that marriage is practiced in the South among the negroes. He will say that the white man marries, and the negro man marries, and that it is the same thing. You know they are not. It is our duty to educate the North, so when we take any stand to correct the problem before us, they will keep hands off and let us go about it.

Report of the Necrological Committee.

COMMITTEE.

R. H. LATANE, M. D., Buchanan, Chairman.
STEPHEN HARNSBERGER, M. D.,

S. T. A. KENT, M. D., Ingram.

Catlett.

Your Committee has received information of the death of each of the members named in the report of the Secretary; but most earnest effort has failed to elicit information concerning several of the deceased members, and we have been forced to write sketches from the items given in the Biographical Register, in some cases augmented by newspaper clippings.

Dr. Richard N. Hewitt.

Died suddenly at his home, Evington, Va., November 8, 1908, aged eighty-four years. He was born in Campbell County, Virginia, and received his academic education at home and at Emory and Henry College; his medical education at the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania, from the latter of which he took his M. D. degree in 1849, thus having spent sixty-four years in the practice of his profession. He was greatly beloved by the entire community and leaves besides his widow, one son and two daughters, Mr. F. R. Hewitt of Asheville, N. C.; Mrs. Thomas Langhorne, and Miss Bettie Hewitt of Evington. The interment was made in the family cemetery at his home.

Dr. Caspar Coiner Henkel.

Died at his home, New Market, Va., November 16, 1908, of diabetes, after an illness of two months, in his seventy-fourth year. He was born at Plains Mill, Rockingham county, Virginia, April 17, 1835, and after acquiring a liberal education at the New Market Academy, graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1857. After graduation he began to practice his profession, in New Market, with his father Dr. Samuel Godfrey Henkel, and continued until July, 1861, when he volunteered in the Confederate States army and served throughout the Civil War as surgeon in Jackson's Brigade, making a record of usefulness that had few equals in the army.

At the close of the Civil War he was acting division surgeon of the celebrated "Stonewall Brigade," and was a member of the Board of Medical Examiners for General Jackson's corps. He engaged in all the battles in which the army of Northern Virginia was engaged from McDowell to Appomattox. At the battle of Gaines' Mill, of the five surgeons who entered the engagement with the brigade, three were wounded and one killed, Dr. Henkel alone escaping uninjured.

After the surrender at Appomattox, he returned to his native town and commenced anew the practice of his profession in copartnership with his uncle Dr. S. P. C. Henkel, who died in 1882, and since that time he has practiced alone. He soon acquired a practice flattering to a young man. No patient was in too humble circumstances to elicit all his skill, and no hour or weather withheld him when called to relieve the sick or suffering. He loved his profession, and by his thoughtfulness, clearness of diagnosis, and intelligent application of remedies, he enjoyed a reputation for efficiency and skill which he richly deserved, and was never failing in professional courtesies to his fellow physicians. He was a man of decided opinions, public spirited, generous and broad minded, and his advice was often sought in matters pertaining to business. He was devoted to his church, and his splendid character was a personal virtue, recognized and acknowledged by all who had the privilege of knowing him. He was a member of the American Medical Association, and the Shenandoah County Medical Society, and has frequently held positions of honor in his profession and State. His good works stand as a monument to mark the existence of his noble life.

Dr. Benjamin Minge Atkinson.

Died at his home in Staunton, Va., on Wednesday, November 18, 1908, in the seventyninth year of his age.

Dr. Atkinson was the second son of the late Roger B. and Mary Withers Atkinson. He was born in 1830, at Sherwood, Lunenburg county, Va., where he spent all of his early youth. He obtained the usual education, such as the sons of gentlemen of that day could get in their homes and at the schools of the neighborhood. He studied medicine at the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1851, and then pursued his studies at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. Graduating from that institution in 1853, he began the practice of his profession in his native county.

In 1857 Dr. Atkinson married Miss Emma May, and in 1865 moved to Staunton, where he uninterruptedly practiced until a few weeks prior to his death. Soon after he located in this city, he was elected vestryman in Trinity church and shortly thereafter was made senior warden, faithfully performing the duties of this honorable position. He was city physician, physician for the Virginia Female Institute, and for the State school for the deaf, dumb and blind, until declining health caused him to resign a few weeks before his death.

He leaves a widow and eight children.

Dr. James Edward Tompkins.

One of Fredericksburg's most prominent practicing physicians and surgeons, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, November 18, 1908. He was born in Spotsylvania county, Va., November 24, 1867; took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Richmond College in 1888, and graduated in medicine from the University of Maryland in 1891. He was a deacon in the Baptist church and held in high esteem by all who knew him. He is survived by his mother, widow and several children.. Interment took place in the cemetery at Fredericksburg.

Dr. Robert Wilson Robinson.

Died at his home at Danville, Va., December 12, 1908, after a long illness from heart trouble. He was born in Henry county, Va., February 24, 1869, and was the son of the late Dr. R. R. Robinson. He received his academic education at the Danville schools and Richmond College, and graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1891. He is survived by his mother and sister.

Dr. Charles Graham Cannaday.

Died suddenly from heart disease at his home in Roanoke, Va., December 17, 1908, age forty-eight years. He was a native of High Point, N. C., and was a son of the late Dr. Asa Cannaday. He graduated in medicine from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1889 and settled in Roanoke, establishing the first hospital in that city. He joined the Society in 1889, and was a very regular attendant on its meetings, often contributing papers of professional interest. He was also a frequent contributor to medical journals. He is survived by his mother, widow and three brothers.

Dr. Robert W. Nelson.

Health Officer of Charlottesville for many years, died at his home in this city December 2, 1908, at the advanced age of eighty-seven.

Dr. Nelson was born at "Belvoir," Albemarle county, Va., in 1822. He was the youngest son of the Hon. Hugh Nelson, who was at one time Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, afterward Judge of the Federal Court, Presidential elector in 1809, Representative in the U. S. Congress from Va., (1811–1823) and Minister to Spain under President Monroe.

Dr. Nelson was educated at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Va., and was a student at the University of Va. during the sessions of 1843-44. He graduated in medicine from Jefferson Medical College, 1846. After practicing for several years in Powhatan and Goochland counties, Va., he moved to Charlottesville, 1868, where he continued in active practice till about ten years ago. He was a member of the antebellum Medical Society of Virginia, and in 1872 joined the present organization, in which he ever took an active interest, being a vice-president in 1875. He attended all the sessions of the present State Medical Society except three. Was surgeon of C. &. O. Ry. Co.

Dr. James William Tankard.

Of Lilian, Va., died December 30, 1908, in Baltimore, Md., whither he had gone for operation for abscess of the liver. Dr. Tankard was born June 9, 1846, in Northampton county, Va. He obtained his academic education at private schools, and graduated in medicine from Washington University, which was afterwards merged into the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.

He joined the Medical Society of Virginia 1888, and attended a number of its meetings. He was also a member of the Medical Examining Board of Virginia for several years.

Dr. Tankard was well known throughout the Northern Neck of Virginia, where his loss will be greatly felt. He is survived by his wife, four brothers and one sister.

Dr. James F. Bryant.

Age sixty-seven, died at his home, Franklin, Va., January 16, 1909. He had been socially one of the most prominent men and physicians in this section. He was an ex-Confederate soldier, having been at the University of Virginia when the war commenced, whence he came home and raised the first Confederate flag in this county. He was wounded twice in the service. At the close of the war he resumed his academic studies at the University, subsequently studied medicine there; then went to the University of New York, where he took the M. D. degree; did some hospital work and general practice in New York, and then came to this place, in 1869, and had practiced medicine

here ever since.

He had always been an active Democrat, was superintendent of public schools in this county when about thirty years old, was three times a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress, and in 1896 came within two votes of being nominated by the convention; was twice a delegate to Democratic national conventions; was for many years chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committee in this county, and member of the Democratic State Central Committee. He had for about fifteen years been a member of the Methodist Church. In 1871 he married Miss Gabraele Barrett, of this place, who died in 1881, and in 1888 he married Miss Margaret Gunter, of Enfield, N. C., who survives him, as well as five children-R. B. Bryant, of Suffolk; J. F. Bryant, Jr., Mrs. W. O. Bristow, Andrew G. Bryant and Margaret B. Bryant, of this place. He is also survived by his stepmother, Mrs. Mary L. Bryant, and by two brothers-N. B. Bryant, of Stony Creek, Va., and R. M. Bryant, of Spring Hope, N. C., and by two sisters-Miss Nellie M. Bryant and Mrs. Flora Jackson, of this place.

Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

Dr. Alexander F. Wills.

Dr. Alexander F. Wills, of Clifford, Va., died February 4, 1909, in the seventy-sixth year of his age.

His remains were buried at St. Mark's Church at Clifford. He was born in Nelson county, Va., October 3, 1833, was educated at Hanover and Piedmont Academies, and took his M. D. degree from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia in 1857. For many years Dr. Wills had been one of the most prominent physicians and citizens of the county. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was for a while a member of the board of supervisors of the county, and at the time of his death was physician to the county almshouse. He is survived by his wife and five children: Henry Wills, of Georgia; Professor Wills, of Pennsylvania; Willie Wills, of Lynchburg; Mrs. Preston, of Abingdon, Va., and Mrs. Snyder, of New York; also by a brother, Willis H. Wills, of Amherst, Va.

Dr. William Chandler Flagg.

Died at his home at Ruther Glen, Va., February 10, 1909, after an illness of only a few days. He was buried in Hollywood cemetery at Richmond, Va., and is survived by his wife who was a Miss Dandridge, a daughter of the late William G. Dandridge of Richmond.

Dr. Samuel Davies Price.

Died February 13, 1909 at Bluefield, W. Va., aged thirty-one years. He was born at Montvale, Va., May 28, 1877; took his academic education at the Montvale Academy, and graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1905, and was for a year

on the house staff of the Memorial Hospital in Richmond. He is survived by his father, Dr. S. H. Price, one sister, Mrs. W. S. Slicer; and two brothers, Drs. Will and Epps Price.

Dr. William K. Gatewood."

After being in ill health for several months, and having gone South with the hope of recuperating, Dr. William K. Gatewood for a number of years one of the most prominent physicians in the eastern part of the State, died March 8, 1909, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Moore, of Marion, S. C. He was born in Middlesex county, Va., March, 1836, and graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1858. Unostentatious, sincere and leading a quiet life, he greatly endeared himself to those who knew him. His remains were interred in the cemetery at West Point.

Dr. James L. White.

Died at his home at Farmville, Va., June 26, 1909, after an illness of only eight days. He was born at Abingdon, Va., May 30, 1833, and received his preliminary education in the Abingdon schools and the Virginia Military Institute. He studied medicine at the University of Virginia, receiving its diploma, and then continued his studies at Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in medicine in 1855. His endearing and sympathetic nature attracted a host of friends, and so beloved and respected was he in his town that the stores and public buildings were all closed during the funeral ceremonies.

Dr. John Henry Crockett.

One of the most widely known physicians in Tazewell county, died at his home, July 13, 1909. Dr. Crockett was a graduate of the medical department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1879. He is survived by his widow and several children.

Dr. Kent Black.

A leading physician of Montgomery county, and eldest son of the late Dr. Harvey Black, died suddenly at his home near Blacksburg, Va., August 12, 1909. Dr. Black graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia in 1878. He was fifty-three years old, and was married in 1894 to Miss Mary Bell of Pulaski, who with his mother, two brothers and one sister, survive him.

Dr. John William Drewry.

Died at his home at Boykins, Va., November 14, 1908. He was born in Southampton county, Virginia, February, 1851, and graduated in Medicine from the Medical College of Virginia 1872.

We have also been informed of the deaths of Dr. Anthony Read Boykin, of Smithfield, Va.; Dr. Hiram W. Gordon of Madison, Va., and Dr. W. Ŏ. McCanless, of Lafayette. Va., but have been unable to secure any particulars.