History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ingthe Civil War Mrs. Tomlinson lived at Car-lisle. When the rebels attacked the city onthe night of July 1, , the college build-ing was used at a While the shellsof the enemy were screaming through thecity Mrs. Tomlinson went to the temporaryhosi)ital and assisted the surgeons in thecare of the wounded. Subsequently whenher husband was wounded, she went to thehospital to nurse him in Washington, wherehe was l
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ingthe Civil War Mrs. Tomlinson lived at Car-lisle. When the rebels attacked the city onthe night of July 1, , the college build-ing was used at a While the shellsof the enemy were screaming through thecity Mrs. Tomlinson went to the temporaryhosi)ital and assisted the surgeons in thecare of the wounded. Subsequently whenher husband was wounded, she went to thehospital to nurse him in Washington, wherehe was lying. Finding the food and care ofthe wounded officers not what they shouldhave been, she secured, through the surgeonin charge and with the sanction of Miss Dix,of the sanitary commission, sole charge ofthe domestic service of the hospital—includ-ing the discipline of the nurses—and dis-charged the heavy duties with such successas to satisfy everj requirement. Harry Ashton Tomlinson was born atPhiladelphia in 1855. He obtained his lit-erary education in the public schools of thecity. Choosing medicine as his profession,he entered the medical department of the. HARRY A, TOMLINSOX. Tniversity of Pennsylvania in 1877 andgraduated in ISSO with the degree of M. immediately began the practice of hisprofession in central Pennsylvania,©wherehe continued for eight years, devoting thelast three to the special study of nervousdiseases and their treatment. He then gaveup his general practice and went to Phila-delphia to make a special study of his chosensubject, spending the winter of 1888 and1S89 in this pursuit. He became so well(jualified in this department of diseases thatin June, ISS!), he was engaged as residentphysician in the Friends Asylum for the in-sane, at Frankford, a suburban part of thecity of Philadelj)hia. His success in this in-stitution was so pronounced as to make himsomewhat noted in his specialty. It led toan invitation from the board of trustees ofthe stat
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