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twenty- four years. His private practice was large. In 1823 he published 

 A Treatise on Practical Anatomy ; in 1826, A Treatise on the Special 

 A)iatomy of the Human Body, in two octavo volumes, which passed 

 through eight editions, and at ditierent times contributed valuable papers 

 to the medical journals. 



The numerous pathological and anatomical preparations made by him- 

 self, whicli Avere appraised at $10,000, he bequeathed to the Wistar 

 Museum. In acknowledgment of this valuable bequest, the Trustees of 

 the University decreed that it should be named thenceforward the Wistar 

 and Horner Museum. 



The anatomical chair, under the lustre shed upon it by the professional 

 skill and eminence of its occupants, had become notably conspicuous. 

 They resembled each otlier so much in their works and ways that it 

 seems not difficult, to imagine that a kind of composite portrait of Shippen, 

 Wistar, Physick and Horner may ever mark the Chair which they in suc- 

 cession so admirably filled from 1765 to 1853, about eighty -seven years, 

 before Dr. Leidy was installed. 



The University of Pennsylvania appointed Dr. Leidy its delegate to the 

 American Medical Association in 1854 at St. Louis, Mo., and in 1873 at 

 Philadelphia, but he did not directly contribute to its Transactions at 

 either meeting. The Committees of the Association on Medical Literature 

 and on Medical Science cited with encomium his papers. On the Compara- 

 tive Structure of the Liver ; On the Intimate Structure and History of the 

 Articular Cartilages ; On the Intermaxillary Bone in the Embryo of the 

 Human Subject, published in the "American Journal of the Medical 

 Sciences," for 1848 and 1849, and On Parasitic Life, printed in the 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Dr. Leidy was on the list of permanent members of the Association from 

 1854 to 1876. At the St. Louis meeting he was appointed Chairman of a 

 Committee on Diseases of Parasitic Origin, and member of a Committee on 

 Prize Essays, but no report from either has been recorded. 



In 1861 he published An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy, and 

 in 1889, the work having been out of print many years, a second edition, 

 rewritten and enlarged. The illustrations are largely from his own 

 drawings of many recent dissections made by him in connection with this 

 work. A peculiar feature of the volume is that English names of the 

 parts are given in tlie text, and their old Latin names in footnotes, under 

 a belief that the subject thus presented would be more readily understood 

 by students. 



Philip Leidy, the father of the professor, died October 9, 1862, in the 

 sixty-seventh year of his age. 



In 1862, when the "Salterlee," a U. S. Army Hospital, was established 

 in West Philadelphia, Surgeon I. I. Hayes, U. S. V., in charge, a num- 

 ber of leading teachers and medical practitioners of Philadelphia volun- 

 teered their services as ward physicians, and received contracts as acting 

 assistant surgeons. To Dr. Leidy was assigned the task of conducting 



