Studies in rabies . e City Hospital of Baltimorewas due very largely to the efforts of Dr. Keirle,assisted in the early days by the excellent col-laboration of Dr. John Ruhrah. As the headof this Institute Dr. Keirle has rendered veryimportant services to the community and hasbrought the work of the Institute to the higheststandard of efficiency in the saving of many livesfrom the most fatal and dreaded of diseases. With relatively few advantages of training,save those of his own making, Dr. Keirle haswon the high esteem of his professional col-leagues by his solid attainments, by his genuinel


Studies in rabies . e City Hospital of Baltimorewas due very largely to the efforts of Dr. Keirle,assisted in the early days by the excellent col-laboration of Dr. John Ruhrah. As the headof this Institute Dr. Keirle has rendered veryimportant services to the community and hasbrought the work of the Institute to the higheststandard of efficiency in the saving of many livesfrom the most fatal and dreaded of diseases. With relatively few advantages of training,save those of his own making, Dr. Keirle haswon the high esteem of his professional col-leagues by his solid attainments, by his genuinelyscientific spirit, by his loyalty to the best ideals INTRODUCTION. 13 of the profession, by his quiet, unobtrusive buteffective work through many years in behalf ofpatients, students, colleagues and the public, andby noble and winning traits of character. Thisvolume relating to one field of his work is in-tended as an expression, although an inadequateone, of the respect, admiration and friendship ofhis BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OFDR. KEIRLE. The author of this book, whose great servicesto his profession a number of his colleagues andpupils desire to honor, was born in Baltimore,October lo, 1833. He Is the son of the late Matthew M. Kelrleof Baltimore and of Sarah Jacobs Garland ofDanvers, Massachusetts. On his mothers sidehe was the grandson of Nathaniel Garland andhis wife Lydia Jacobs. His great grandfatherwas Benjamin Jacobs, born in Danvers, Massa-chusetts, March, 1742, who, as lieutenant inColonel Pickerings regiment, marched to Lex-ington on April 19, 1775. His paternal grandfather, John WashingtonKelrle, was born In 1777. In 1796 he marriedAnn Murfin and established himself in Balti-more as a successful shoe merchant. The couplehad three sons, the eldest being MatthewMurfin Kelrle, born December 5, 1798. JohnWashington Kelrle lost his life on the steamer 16 DR. keirles life. Lexington, which was burned on Long IslandSound, January 13, 1840. Matthew was married t


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