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the autopsies and reporting them, from time to time, to the Surgeon- 

 General of the Army. A number of pathological specimens prepared by 

 him accompanied his reports. They have been preserved in the Army 

 Medical Museum in Washington. He made about sixty autopsies, of 

 which his reports are publislied in "The Medical and Surgical History of 

 the War of the Rebellion."* In this capacity he served from 1862 to 

 18G5. 



His brother. Dr. Philip Leidy, was assistant surgeon of the lOGtb 

 Pennsylvania Infantry from November 1, 1861, till September, 1863, 

 ■when he was appointed surgeon of the 119th Regiment of Inftmtry, and 

 served in the field till he was honorably discharged, June 10, 1865. He 

 was present in nearly all the battles of the Army of the Potomac, evinc- 

 ing courage and devotion to his duties "with the rare qualities of a gifted 

 man." His official reports to the Surgeon-Greneral are published in the 

 history above named. 



Dr. Joseph Leidy was appointed a member of the Sanitary Commission 

 Association, April 3, 1862; and September 11, "The State of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Executive Office of the Military Department at Harrisburg, " 

 appointed him Chief Surgeon within the old limits of the city of Phila- 

 delphia. 



August, 1864, he married Anna, a daughter of Robert Harden, of 

 Louisville, Ky. To compensate for the sterility of this union, they some 

 3'^ears afterwards adopted the infant daughter of a deceased friend. Dr. 

 Leidy told the writer that had this dear child been his own he could not 

 have loved her more. He was fond of children. The crying or hilarious 

 romping of the playmates of his young daughter in the study did not in 

 the least degree disturb or divert him from his work. 



Since his reports to the Surgeon-General of the Army the only paper con- 

 nected with the science of medicine from his pen found in print is an essay 

 on Intestinal Worms, included in A System of Practical Medicine hy Ameri- 

 can Axothors, edited by William Pepper, M.D., LL.D , etc., assisted by 

 Louis Starr, M.D., etc., published by Lea, Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, 

 1888. This essay — largely derived from foreign publications — occupies 

 thirty-five pages of the second volume. At the close of this paper, Dr. 

 Leidy states that for much of his information he is indebted to the articles 

 on '•Intestinal Parasites " and "Diseases from Migratory Parasites, " in 

 Ziemssen's Encyclopmlia of the Practice of Medicine. 



After he relinquished practice to devote himself exclusively to teaching, 

 no branch of the healing art attracted or practically engaged his attention. 

 From this circumstance his father, who unwillingly consented that he 

 might study medicine, was probably led to say that "a first-class sign- 

 painter had been spoiled to make a poor doctor." 



Dr. Leidy delivered courses of lectures on comparative anatomy in the 

 University, and on pure human anatomy as part of the medical curriculum, 



* Vol. i, Part i, and Vol. ii. Parts i aiul il. 



