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and the North Western Ohio Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He was a ready and forcible writer, and one of the editors of the Toledo Medical and Surgical Journal. Data from Dr. Starling Loving.

J. M. T.

WALSH, JOSEPH, M.D., of Washington City, was born in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 28, 1806; died of pneumonia at his residence in Washington, Nov. 9, 1879. He was the son of Joseph and Margaret (Corrigan) Walsh, of Dublin, who carried on a dyeing establishment in that city. The doctor received a good education at a Jesuit college in Dublin. He then became apprenticed to the drug business, and studying pharmacy graduated as an apothecary at Apothecary Hall, Dublin, Ireland, in September, 1828. He was fond of travel, and, after visiting different parts of the world, came to America, and settled in Washington. Dr. Walsh obtained a position in the hospital belonging to the Marine Barracks in that city, and while holding this position read medicine and attended lectures at the medical department of Columbian College, where he graduated M.D. in 1843. After receiving his medical degree he began practice, and was then employed for a number of years as Contract Physician to the Marine Barracks, discharging all his duties with fidelity and to the satisfaction of the officers in charge. During the late war he served as Contract Surgeon in the United States Army in the hospitals at Washington. Dr. Walsh was united in marriage Sept. 7, 1843, to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Malinda (Tench) Smith, of Washington City. This union was a happy one, and resulted in thirteen children, seven sons and six daughters.

For many years he was actively and laboriously engaged in the duties of his profession in the southeastern section of the city, where he was well and favorably known as a good citizen and a skilful and attentive physician. He was an ardent advocate of temperance, encouraging organizations to that end, frequently lecturing in public upon the evil that flows from the use of ardent spirits. He always enjoyed excellent health, was of an active, sanguineous temperament, zealous and persevering in whatever he was engaged. He was in personal appearance erect, over six feet in height, and with an intellectual cast of features. Dr. Walsh was a member of the Medical Society

of the District of Columbia, and also of the Medical Association. of the District of Columbia, and became a member of the American Medical Association in 1870. He was a man of noble instincts, and a firm supporter of medical organizations, and maintained the most honorable relations with his professional brethren.

On the announcement of his death, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia held a special meeting, and passed appropriate resolutions of respect for his memory and of condolence with his bereaved family; they also attended his funeral in a body. He was a practical member of the Roman Catholic Church. His funeral took place from St. Matthew's Church, on which occasion his old pastor and personal friend, the Rev. F. E. Boyle, preached an eloquent sermon, illustrative of the character of Dr. Walsh, and of the self-denials and labors of the physician. Dr. Walsh's remains were followed by a large number of his friends to Mount Olivet Cemetery, where they were interred.

J. M. T.

WATERHOUSE, MARION, M.D., of Portage, Wis., was born September 19, 1827, in New York; died of malignant disease at his residence, October 19, 1878.

He removed to Wisconsin when about 14 years of age, and lived on a farm until 1853, when he had the misfortune to break his left leg badly, which ever after remained crippled.

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In the following summer he determined to study medicine, which he did, graduating at Rush Medical College in Chicago, in 1864. In the same year he was commissioned First Assistaut Surgeon in the First Regiment of Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. In this position he won the esteem of all who knew him. remained in the army until the close of the war, when he removed to Portage, Wisconsin, where he resided until his death. Soon after taking up his residence in Portage, he had still another accident to the crippled limb, by which the neck of the femur was broken.

Dr. Waterhouse became a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society in 1867, was elected Vice-President of the Society in 1871, and President in 1873. In 1870 he was one of its delegates to the American Medical Association, of which body he remained a member until his death.

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suffered with a suspicious and painful ulcer on the heel of the crippled limb. It resisted all treatment and obstinately grew worse, until in the early part of the winter of 1878 he decided to undergo amputation of the leg. This was performed six inches below the knee, on the 10th of January, 1878. The stump healed kindly, and in a few weeks he was able to ride out. But about the first of May a small purplish-red tumor appeared on the end of the stump; this tumor increased in size until in the course of a few months the whole end of the stump became involved, also the lymphatic glauds in the groin, showing unmistakable evidence of malignancy. The disease made rapid progress until it terminated his life.

Dr. Waterhouse commenced the study of medicine in obscurity and adversity, but by his industry and perseverance, he overcame obstacles that would have disheartened many. He won a high place in his profession. He was a true physician, ever ready and willing to serve the poor and relieve the suffering; he never shrunk from his duty, nor flinched in its perform

ance.

J. T. REEVES, M.D.

WRIGHT, MARMADUKE BURR, M.D., was born at Pemberton, Burlington County, N. J., Nov. 10, 1803; died at his residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1879.

His preliminary education was obtained principally at the Trenton Academy, under Dr. Elijah Slack, who was subsequently Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio.

Dr. Wright began the study of medicine at the age of sixteen, under the tuition of Dr. John McKelway, of Trenton, a graduate of Edinburgh.

He attended three courses of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated M.D. from that institution in 1823, when a little over nineteen years of age; his thesis on the occasion was on Fistula Lacrymalis.

He commenced practice Nov. 10, 1823, at Columbus, Ohio, where he resided until 1837 or 1838, when he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica in the Medical College of Ohio, having for his associates, Professors R. D. Mussey, John Morehead, Jared P. Kirtland, J. T. Shot well, and John Locke.

In 1840 Dr. Wright was transferred to the chair of Obstetrics, which he held until 1850, when by action of a majority of the

Board of Trustees he was removed. In 1860 he was again appointed to the chair of Obstetrics, which he resigned in 1868, and was immediately elected Professor Emeritus.

Dr. Wright had a vigorous intellect and was most industrious in study; he had a strong will and faltered at no common obstacle; when young a night-ride of fifteen miles through the unbroken wilderness was no uncommon or special hardship for him.

In his earlier years he had, like most young men, a preference for surgery, and performed many difficult operations with credit to himself. One of his first exploits in this department was the successful ligation of the internal iliac artery in a cow, in which that vessel had been partially severed by a stab.

As early as 1838 he manifested strong interest in politics, and was elected from Franklin County to serve as Representative in the State Legislature, and was the youngest member of that body. During his term of service as representative he had characteristic controversies with his political opponents, in which he generally proved the winner. While he had wonderful coutrol, "no man attacked him with impunity, forensically or physically, and those who assailed him generally came off second best."

While in the Legislature, in connection with Dr. W. M. Awl, his attention was called to the condition of the insane, who then, throughout the State, were "confined in jails, out-houses, and cellars." Mainly through the efforts of these two gentlemen, the present State asylums were founded.

From the beginning of his career his interest in his profession was manifested in writing his experiences. One of his first articles was "On Scurvy, as it appeared in the Ohio Penitentiary in 1835." Dr. Wright was physician to the Ohio Penitentiary at the date mentioned, and the article appeared in the Western Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine, published by Prof. Eberle, for June, 1837. He wrote with facility, and contributed many other valuable papers to the literature of the profession.

In 1839 he delivered an introductory address on "The Physiological and Therapeutical Uses of Water." In 1841, on "The Incidents of Professional Life." In 1843, on "The Science of Medicine as a Compilation of Truths." In 1845, on "Drunkenness and Insanity." In 1846, on "The Experimentation and Dis

section of Human Bodies." In 1847, on "The Qualifications of Professors and Students," etc.

Among biographical sketches were those of Dr. John Latta and Prof. John Locke, in 1852 and 1857.

In 1859 he wrote for the Ohio State Medical Society a notable paper on "Drunkenness, its Nature and Cure; or Asylums for Inebriates."

In 1875 he read a paper before the American Medical Association on "Pigmentation, a Rose Disease among Infants," which was published in the Transactions for that year.

His greatest effort, that which attracted the attention of the medical world, is his Prize Essay on "Difficult Labors and their Treatment," read before the Ohio State Medical Society in 1854.

This first attracted general attention to "Cephalic Version, or the correction of malpositions in utero by external and internal manipulation."

Dr. Wright did not claim priority in the use of this method, but to have been very successful in its application to practice. There is good reason to believe that, if he did not originate the precise method which he used, he made great improvement on what was previously known concerning it, and whatever may be claimed by others the name of M. B. Wright will be always associated with "cephalic version."

In 1854, in connection with Drs. Newberry and Thompson, as a committee of the State Medical Society to review the Code of Ethics, he recommended the following, which is characteristic of the man, and which the Society came near adopting, but counsels wise or unwise prevailed against it:

"Resolved, that the Ohio State Medical Society does not require the existence of any code of ethics, as such, to secure kindness of intercourse, concert of action, and scientific improvement among its members; that the great moral code containing the injunction, Do unto others as ye would they should do unto you,' and our feelings and knowledge as gentlemen, are as efficient as anything can be in promoting a true and unexceptional spirit of social and professional intercourse."

Dr. Wright thought with many others that the code does not restrain those who wish to evade its restrictions, and that the code as it exists is not necessary among gentlemen. Besides those already mentioned the doctor filled during his life many positions of honor and trust, and was a member of many societies.

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