Born on September 12th, 1839; was educated at Oundle School, afterwards receiving his professional training at St Bartholomews Hospital and at the University of Malta. He was appointed Surgeon in the Royal Navy in 1870, and was promoted Staff Surgeon in December, 1872. He was appointed to the *Activ

Born at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on July 31st, 1846, the son of the Principal of the Government Grammar School; he entered McGill University in 1864, and was the first student of his year and Holmes Gold Medallist. For six years he acted as Resident Surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital. In 1

Born [1] at Senftenberg in Bohemia, a Czech, the son of a poor watchmaker. Educated at the Königsgratz Gymnasium, and in 1861 entered as a student at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, the teachers being Hyrtl, Skoda, Brücke, Oppolzer, and Rokitansky. He took his doctor's degree in 186

Came of a family prominent in business, philanthropy, and society. He was born in New York on September 23rd, 1852, and was educated in New York, the Andover Academy, and Yale, where he graduated in Arts. He gained his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons attached to Columbia

Born at Castéra-Verduzan (Gers) in Gascony, the son of a local practitioner. He studied medicine in Paris, becoming interne in 1863, and serving under Jarjavay, Denonvilliers, Gosselin, and Cusco. He graduated MD in 1867 with a thesis on the internal circulation of the heart. Based on his own resear

Born at Vans in Ardèche, and studied natural science at the University of Montpellier, being appointed in 1849 Assistant in Botany in the Faculty of Medicine. In 1851 he was Interne of the Hôtel-Dieu at Lyons, took his doctor's degree at Montpellier in 1856, and in 1860, when just thirty years of ag

Born at Bergen, Norway, on July 31st, 1831. Studied medicine in Christiania and graduated in 1856. Soon afterwards he was appointed Medical Inspector of the Herring Fishery. He was a Compagnie-Chirurg from 1857-1867, being resident in Stockholm up to 1860. From 1863-1866 he was 'Reservearzt' on the

Born in the town of Novotscherkask on the Don on January 28th (Jan 16th os), 1845. He was the son of a priest and was educated at an ecclesiastical seminary. He received his medical education at the Medico-Chirurgical Academy, St Petersburg, in the years 1862-1868, his teachers being Professors Botk

The younger son of Robert Ball, LLD, Director of the Dublin Museum of Science and Art, and brother of Sir Robert Stawell Ball, the Astronomer Royal, was born in Dublin on Feb 21st, 1851. After a brilliant career at Trinity College, Dublin, he practised for a short period in South Wales; but return

Came of a family of Lutheran Pastors, of long standing in East Prussia and Livonia, his father being Pastor of Rujen in Livonia; but his mother, having to take refuge from an epidemic, he was born at Riga, then the capital of the Russian Baltic Provinces, in December, 1836. On leaving school he fai

Born in the Isle of Bute on June 22nd, 1848, the younger son of John Macewen, who had been in business in Rothesay and was afterwards master of the *Breadalbane*, a yacht employed during the summer months to carry Free Church Ministers to and from the islands on the West Coast of Scotland. He was ed

Born at New York; studied at the Free Academy or College of the City of New York, and in 1859 received the MD of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. During the North and South War he served as Assistant Surgeon to the Federal Army and was from 1862 in charge of the General Hospital at F