many papers in the various medical Journals on subjects connected with his specialty.

After a hard fought life, having reached that position in which the practice of his profession was easy, agreeable and lucrative, and still in the enjoyment of an uncommon share of health and freshness of appearance for a man at his period of life, he was suddenly seized with his last illness, and at once calmly recognized that death was making its approaches with mathematical certainty. Having expressed his last wishes, he quietly awaited the termination, "sans peur, et sans reproche."

JOHNSON CLARK.

Dr. JOHNSON CLARK was born in Wakefield, N. H., Jan. 4th, 1818. He studied medicine with Dr. Alvah Moulton, of Ossipee, N. H., and received his medical diploma at the Medical College at Washington, D.C. He commenced the practice of medicine at Bridgewater, Mass., but afterwards removed to New Bedford, where he remained until called into government service, in becoming Assistant Surgeon to the 3d Mass. Regiment. At the expiration of three months, he was detailed by Gen. Butler to remain with the Massachusetts Battalion as Surgeon. Afterwards he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the National Coast Guard, and was to have been promoted to Surgeon about the time of his death. He devoted his whole time to the service, and was much esteemed and beloved by all. He died of typhoid fever, Dec. . 8th, 1861, at Camp Hamilton, near Fortress Monroe.

A friend writes: "He was a most affectionate husband, kind and patient to all, and did a great deal of good in a quiet way."

AMOS FARNSWORTH.

Dr. AMOS FARNSWORTH was born in Groton, Mass., in 1788. He went to no College, but studied medicine first with Dr. Thomas, of Tyngsboro', and afterwards with Dr. John Warren, in Boston. As soon as his medical studies were ended, he received the appointment of Surgeon in the U. S Army. He accompanied our forces to the frontiers of Canada in 1812, and resigned his commission two years afterwards. He established himself in Boston, where he practised his profession until about 1830. After that time he retired from it. In 1832, he removed to his native town, and resided there till 1848, since when he lived in Boston and vicinity. He died in Roxbury, July 31st, 1861, aged nearly 73 years.

M. E. H.

JOHN E. HATHAWAY.

Dr. JOHN E. HATHAWAY died January 12th, 1862, at the early age of 32 years. He had practised medicine, with intervals of ill health, in his native town of Worcester, from October, 1852, to April, 1861, when he removed to the pleasant town of Shrewsbury for possible improvement to his health under agricultural occupation. His death, long expected and patiently waited for, was by extensive tuberculosis.

To many of us, Dr. Hathaway's memory is pleasantly associated with recollections of his official relations for five years with the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he passed most of his medical pupilage. He was a man of pure life and high aspirations; amiable, genial, conscientious and faithful; a good student, a good physician, and an hon

est man.

J. S.

JACOB HAYES.

Dr. JACOB HAYES was born in Berwick, Me., Sept. 17th, 1809. He studied medicine one or two years with the late Dr. George B. Doane, of Boston, and graduated from the Medical School in Brunswick, Me., in 1836.

He commenced the practice of medicine in Eliot, Me., where he remained one year, and then removed to New Market, N. H. He resided here but a short time, when he took up his residence in East Boston. From this latter place he removed to Charlestown in April, 1847, where he spent the remainder of his days, enjoying a large and lucrative practice.

He died, Sept. 28, 1861, at North Conway, N. H., where he had gone for the benefit of his health.

WILLIAM HOOKER.*

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Dr. WILLIAM HOOKER, of Westhampton, was born at Northampton, in Nov. 1766; the son of Rev. John Hooker. He studied medicine with Dr. Ebenezer Hunt, of Northampton. In 1788, he commenced the practice of medicine at Westhampton, and continued in the active pursuit of his profession until the close of 1834. After that year he relinquished practice, except to attend upon family connections, and in consultations.

He was ardently devoted to his profession. He had the confidence and warm attachment of his patients, and a large share of the patronage of the community in which he resided. He was a man of clear perceptions, an accurate observer of disease, and conservative in practice. He kept up a lively interest in all medical matters till within a

This notice of Dr. Hooker was not received in time to be inserted among the obituary notices last year.

short period of his death. He had a strong religious element in his character, which rendered his declining years happy and cheerful to the last.

He died at Westhampton, Feb. 27, 1861, in his ninety-fourth year; retaining his mental faculties and all his senses to a remarkable degree, till near the close of his long life. He died of acute disease, rather than of old age.

HIRAM HOSMER.

A. H.

Dr. HIRAM HOSMER, the son of Jonas Hosmer, a farmer, was born in Walpole, N. H., Sept. 4, 1798. He was the nephew of Abner Hosmer, who was killed at Concord Fight. As a boy he worked on his father's farm, occasionally letting himself to the neighbors at a compensation which, in his better days, seemed to him ridiculously meagre. He learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, which he afterwards abandoned for the study of medicine. His early education was only that which could be obtained in a district school, and one quarter spent at an Academy. In 1820, he became the pupil of the celebrated Dr. Amos Twitchell, of Keene, N. II. He also passed several months in Troy, N. Y., under the tuition of Drs. Hale and Watkins. He attended lectures in Boston, receiving his degree from Harvard University, in 1824. The same year he established himself in Watertown, where he remained till his death, which took place April 15, 1862, of ulceration and perforation of the gall-bladder, after an illness of sixty-five hours.

The medical history of Dr. Hosmer's life is invested with peculiar interest. The history of his hæmoptysis is given in Dr. Jackson's "Letters to a Young Physician," page 191. But what is more remarkable, is the number and severity of the cerebral attacks which he survived. Many years since, during convalescence from typhoid fever, he had an incomplete hemiplegia of the right side. In April, 1836, a light attack slightly benumbed the right arm. In February, 1860, he had a cerebral hemorrhage, which two of the most eminent of the profession thought must be speedily fatal. Contrary to all reasonable expectation he rallied, instead of sinking, and early in the summer was able to walk and ride out; and two years and two months afterwards he died of abdominal disease.

The most marked effect of the last cerebral seizure, was mental and not physical. There was no paralysis of the limbs or face, and he was capable of distinct articulation; but he lost his command of language, often calling things by the wrong names, and often failing to utter anything whatever.

He had a successful career; a large experience, great professional tact, a ready and correct judgment, an appreciation of "Nature in Dis

ease," and a perfect comprehension of, and devotion to the highest interests of medicine, in the best sense of the term.

One of our most respected associates thus writes of him :-" He was esteemed wherever he was known. He was not a great book-man, but was a diligent student of nature, and ever studied carefully the diagnosis of his patients, as well as the mode of treatment. He was judicious in the treatment of the sick, not afraid of powerful medicines when such were really needed, but more commonly employing mild remedies."

Dr. Hosmer was married, Sept. 6, 1827, to Sarah Watson Grant, of Walpole, N. H., who died in 1836. Of four children, two daughters survived their mother; and of these, one died in 1842. The younger outlived all her family, and is now the distinguished sculptress, Harriet Hosmer.

E. K. SANBORN.

Dr. E. K. SANBORN died at Ship Island, Miss., April 3, 1862. He was a native of New Hampshire, and was born in the year 1827; consequently he was in his 35th year at the time of his death. When he was 13 years old, his father, also a physician, died. He studied with his uncle, Dr. G. Kimball, of Lowell. Possessing talents of a high order, he soon attained an enviable position among the promising young physicians of New England. In 1853, he was chosen lecturer on Pathological Anatomy in the Vermont Medical College, and he spent the following winter in visiting the hospitals of England and Germany. At the close of his first course of lectures in Vermont, he became connected with the Berkshire Medical Institution, as teacher of anatomy, and the year following was elected professor of surgery in the same College. On the breaking up of the school to which he was first attached in Vermont, he accepted an appointment as professor of surgery in the Medical Institution at Castleton, Vt., establishing himself at the same time in the practice of his profession in the neighboring town of Rutland.

In April, 1861, he was tendered a commission as Surgeon to the 1st Volunteer Regiment of Vermont, and proceeded at once to Fortress Monroe. Thence he was ordered almost immediately to Newport News, where he became Post Surgeon. Shortly before the departure of the "New England Division" for Ship Island, Gen. Butler, who had already seen and appreciated his energy and efficiency at Fortress Monroe, solicited his farther services as Surgeon of the 31st Reg. Mass. Vols. The proposition was favorably entertained, and with a commission from Gov. Andrew, he forthwith joined his regiment on board the Mississippi. The repeated disasters and perils of that ill-fated ship are

well known. On reaching Ship Island he had become sadly prostrated, both in mind and body, by the unremitted fatigues and anxiety of the voyage, so that in less than two weeks from the day of disembarking, he sank away, without showing any evidence of actual disease, apparently from mere physical exhaustion.

Thus, as remarked by Gen. Butler, "the service lost a good officer, the profession an able member, and the country a patriot and good citizen."

Although taken away at an early age, there is left upon record gratifying evidence of his ability and usefulness. His communications to medical periodicals were few, but valuable. Among them were "Fractures of the Patella, treated by Adhesive Straps ;" "Ligamentous Union of the Radius and Ulna treated by Drilling and Wiring, after Failure by other Means;" "Ununited Fracture of the Humerus, cured by the same Method." "A new Method of treating large erectile Tumors, with a Review of the Pathology of the Disease, and the different Modes of Treatment," was a more elaborate article, showing not only remarkable success in a given case, but furnishing also suggestions of general application to this particular class of disease.

JONAS HENRY LANE.

Dr. JONAS HENRY LANE, born in Lancaster, Mass., on the 29th of January, 1800, pursued his preparatory course of study in several academies; enjoying in Lancaster the instructions of the now distinguished Jared Sparks; and finished the University course in 1821. His medical studies were directed by Drs. Pearson in Westminster, Wyman in the McLean Asylum, and Spooner in Boston; to which course he added an attendance on two full terms of lectures at the Harvard Medical College. The degree of M.D. being conferred upon him by the University in 1826, he immediately entered on the practical duties of his profession in Boston.

He was married on the 6th of October, 1830, to Frances Ann Brown; and on the 5th day of September, 1861, he closed his honorable and useful life in this city, leaving her a widow with three children.

Dr. Lane was an honor to his profession, a benefactor to the afflicted, and an ornament to the Christian Church; ever walking closely in the footsteps of him who was "meek and lowly in heart," and "who went about doing good." While not behind his brethren in thoroughness of preparatory study of the profession, and not remiss in the pursuit of the ever-growing knowledge which our active age supplies, he excelled many, perhaps the most, in what may be called the moral department of his profession. Above the petty tricks and management which are