The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . on of the theory and practice of medicine in theNew York Academy of Medicine; vice-president andtreasurer in the Ameiican Academy of Medicine;member of the New York County Medical
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . on of the theory and practice of medicine in theNew York Academy of Medicine; vice-president andtreasurer in the Ameiican Academy of Medicine;member of the New York County Medical Society;the American Medical Association; the New YorkPatholo^cal Association, and fellow of the Obstet-rical Society of London. He was delegate from theAmerican Medical Association to the Society of Ger-man Naturalists and Physicians at their forty-fifthannual meeting, held in Leipsic, Germany, in 1872;to the British Medical Association in 1870 and 1873,and to the tenth international medical congress, heldin Berlin in 1890. He has contributed very largelyto the literature of medicine, editing the Physicianand Pharmacist from 1869 to 1880, and preparingmany papers, lectures and pamphlets. As a physi-cian, whether operating in his specialties as a gyne-cologist, or as a therapeutist, thoroughness is his dis-tinguishing characteristic. As a surgeon he is brave,skillful and tender, positive in diagnosis and in-. dividual in opinion. Adding to a remarkably cor-rect diagnosis a thorough knowledge of materiamedica, his unusual medical intuition enables himquickly to justify the confidence of his patients. Asa linguist he is thoroughly versed in the classics, andof the modern languages uses English, French andGerman with fluency. EVANS, Thomas, author, was born in Philadel-phia in 1798. He was an eminent member of theSociety of Friends, or Quakers, and opposed theUnitarian views of Elias Hicks in a series of paperspublished in the organ of that sect, The also wrote a very c
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