334 OBITUARY. 



Ho was elected a Follow of this Society in 1858, and died 25th 

 Felirnaiy, 1878, in his fifty-fonrth year. 



Dr. Edward James Shearman, M.D., F.E.S.E., F.L.S., &c., who 

 died at Kotherham on the 2nd October, 1878, in his eighty-first year, 

 was born at Wrington, in Somersetshire, next door to the celebrated 

 Hannah Moore, and received his early education at Mr. Catlow's 

 School, at Mansfield, where he was articled to a surgeon. He passed 

 the Apothecaries' Company in 1820, having had the opportunity of 

 studying under Brodie (afterwards Sir B. C. Brodie), at St. George's 

 Hospital, and settled at Kotherham about 1823, where he very soon 

 took a leading position as a general practitioner in the town and 

 neighbourhood. He afterwards passed the College of Surgeons, and 

 some ten years ago was made a Fellow. He took the degree of M.D. 

 of Jena in 1841, and became a Member of the Boyal College of Phy- 

 sicians, London, in 1869, having obtained the extra Licentiate in 1843. 



His contributions to medical literature have been numerous and 

 varied in almost all the journals of his time. In 1845 he published an 

 "Essay on Properties of Animal and Vegetable Life." In 1846 he was 

 elected one of the Council of the Provincial Medical Association, and 

 in 1847 was appointed to write the " Eetrospective Address on Diseases 

 of the Chest," which was read by his son in 1848 at the annual meet- 

 ing, and was afterwards published by the Council. He was elected a 

 Fellow of the Ptoyal Society of Edinburgh, of the Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society, and of several other learned bodies. In 1856 he was elected 

 a Fellow of this Society, having been early associated with the pio- 

 neers of the Microscope in medicine, and he continued to the last 

 to manifest a most striking love for microscopical science, in diag- 

 nosis of disease, of which he had early become an adept. More than 

 twelve months before Dr. Golding Bird published his first edition of 

 ' Urinary Deposits,' he read before the ShefiSeld Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society an " Essay on the Changes in the Urine affected by Disease," 

 and the tests to distinguish them, which was published in the ' Lancet ' ; 

 and the information which he gave to the town on sanitary matters 

 was very interesting, exposing the evils which existed at the time, 

 which attached more particularly to bad water and faulty drainage. 

 His microscopical examinations of the water caused great alarm, and 

 thoroughly opened the eyes of the people to the unsanitary condition 

 of the town as regarded sewage and water, and paved the way for a 

 new and better era. 



He was married twice, first to the daughter of Mr. Brooks, of Old 

 Moor, Wath, by whom he had three children ; the death of his 

 surviving son. Dr. Charles, who died about fourteen years ago, aged 

 fiity, was a great blow to him, as he was a man of acumen and great 

 promise in his profession. In 1872 he was married to Miss Turner, 

 of South Grove, who survives him. Dr. Shearman was held in the 

 highest esteem by large numbers, not only of friends, but of patients 

 in various parts of the country, who had been in the habit of con- 

 stantly consulting him. 



