Luther Dana Waterman. DLT 
in the State. He was for several years one of the surgeons of the City 
Hospital and was one of the charter organizers of the old Indiana Med- 
ical College, in which he was Professor of Anatomy from 1869 to 1873, 
and Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine from 1875 to 1877. 
With the consolidation of the several medical schools of the State into 
the Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Waterman became Hmer- 
itus Professor of Medicine. He was for many years an active member 
of the Indiana State Medical Society, and was Secretary and President 
of that organization. It was in May, 1878, as President of the Society, 
that he gave an address entitled “Economy and Necessity of a State 
Board of Health.” The address was published by the Society and five 
thousand copies were distributed throughout the State. In that address 
his arguments were so conclusively presented that they caused a state- 
wide movement which resulted eventually in the establishment of a 
State Board of Health in Indiana. Up to that time but thirteen States 
in the Union had provided for state medical boards, and all these had 
been established within the previous decade. 
Dr. Waterman retired from active practice in 1893, at the age of 
sixty-three years, after forty years of practice of medicine and surgery. 
Nowadays when a physician retires not many know about it or care. 
In this day of specialists, when a different one is employed for each 
and every ailment, physician and patient rarely know one another inti- 
mately; indeed, they may not even be acquaintances. Once each family 
had but one doctor, regardless of the nature of the case. Whatever 
such a physician lacked that the specialist possesses was balanced by 
the former’s broad and comprehensive knowledge and experience, his 
understanding of the patient’s history, habits and peculiarities, and a 
sympathy and personal interest that many times amounted to genuine 
affection. Dr. Waterman was such a physician, a family physician of 
the highest type, and there was sincere regret in thousands of homes 
when he announced his retirement from active practice. 
Dr. Waterman was not only a progressive and successful physician 
and surgeon; he was a man of wide intellectual interests, a constant 
reader, all his life a student of science, language and literature, himself 
a writer of ability. 
The writer remembers well the first time he met Dr. Waterman, 
then eighty years of age. He was attending a dinner of the Indiana 
Academy of Science and sat beside the writer—in order to discuss the 
electron theory. The last time the writer ever saw the Doctor alive 
was when the Doctor accompanied him on a two-hundred-mile auto trip 
to attend a meeting of the Indiana Academy at Turkey Run and The 
Shades—only a month before the Doctor’s death. He was still inter- 
ested in the electron theory. He was interested, too, in the research 
