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ing of July 13th, and had returned ap- 

 parently in good health, only to be 

 stricken the following morning. 



In 1901 John Oehler was elected to 

 membership in the German Apothecary 

 Society, retaining this membership until 

 the time of his demise. He had a wide 

 circle of friends among the members of 

 this body, who all were deeply grieved 

 to learn of his death. 



Professor Oehler is survived by his wife, 

 Sophia W. Oehler, whose maiden name 

 was Sophia W. Nehler, and whom he 

 married on November 26th, 1890, a 

 daughter, Sophia Flora Oehler, his 

 mother. Flora Erdle Oehler, and a sister, 

 Mathilda Oehler. 



Furneral services were held at his late 

 residence, 426 Broad Street, Carlstadt, 

 New Jersey, on the evening of July i6th, 

 and were largely attended by officers, 

 trustees and members of the college, 

 members of the Faculty, and by numer- 

 ous neighbors and friends. The inter- 

 ment took place on July 17th, in Berry 

 Lawn Cemetery. 



Active, honorable and alert in business 

 affairs, a devoted husband and father, 

 the graduates of our college will ever 

 bear in mind his faithful, untiring and 

 disinterested service in the interest of the 

 Institution and its student body. His 

 memory will be revered among us, and 

 the history of his straightforward, hon- 

 est and model life will be an inspiration 

 and a noble example to be followed by 

 future classes of students in our collegfe. 



To his mourning widow, and to his 

 fatherless child, as well as to his imme- 

 diate relatives and friends who are most 

 heart-stricken at the loss we all have 

 sustained, there is but little of this 

 world's consolation to offer. We can 

 only sincerely and most affectionately 



sympathize with them in their afflictive 

 bereavement. But we can say that He 

 who moulds the destinies of all of us, 

 looks down with infinite compassion upon 

 the widow and the fatherless in the hour 

 of their desolation, and that He will fold 

 the arms of His love and protection 

 around those who trust in Him. 



GEORGE C. DIEKMAN. 



A Question of Anatomy. 



As was to be expected the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association has 

 attacked editorially Dr. H. H. Rusby of 

 this city because of the testimony he 

 gave in favor of the plaintiff in a libel 

 suit recently decided against the Asso- 

 ciation. We are not going to defend 

 Dr. Rusby, who needs no defense, for a 

 lifetime of honorable service in the cause 

 of science speaks for itself. It pains us, 

 however, to find our esteemed contem- 

 porary wrong also on an anatomical 

 point. It speaks of "Dr. Rusby's weird 

 conception of the anatomy of the female 

 pelvis," because he referred to "the im- 

 striped muscular fibres of the broad liga- 

 ment !" (mark of astonishment the Jour- 

 nal editor's), and advises him, when he 

 gets back to Columbia University, to 

 "ask a freshman student in the anatomy 

 class to make a dissection of some of the 

 unstriped muscles in the broad liga- 

 ment." The funny point here is that the 

 broad ligament does contain unstriped 

 muscular fibres, as Cunningham, Gray, 

 and all anatomists, as well as De Lee and 

 many obstetricians, testify. Whatever 

 the wants of others may be. Dr. Rusby 

 evidently needs no freshman to teach 

 him anatomy. 



From the New York Medical Record, 

 July 15, 1916. 



