10 LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON HOWE. 



fessional life. His first book was " Fractures and Dis- 

 locations." " The Art and Science of Surgery " came 

 out in the sixties, "A Manual of Eye and Ear Sur- 

 gery " a little later, and " Operative Gynaecology " in 

 1890. He designed a large proportion of the cuts in 

 his books and papers. He wrote monthly a surgical 

 article and some editorial miscellany for the Eclectic 

 Medical Journal, and occasionally essays semi-scientific 

 or literary. All this time he was an active practitioner, 

 and for many years had had an extensive surgical 

 practice. It was his nature to be busy to do his 

 work if possible before it was needed ; this was his 

 method of seeking relief rather than by putting work 

 off. Much of his professional life can be read in his 

 surgical writings and editorial sketches ; and in the 

 progress of the years they became the storehouse of 

 his reports of operative surgery, of his registered 

 observations and notes, and deductions carefully com- 

 pared and reduced to laws of health and disease the 

 wisdom of these years of study and experience. His 

 mind dwelt chiefly, in the maturity of his labors, on 

 the improved methods of treating surgical diseases, 

 and the mysteries of living things. He gave himself 

 but little leisure, and his capacity for work was un- 

 usual. His physical constitution was of more than 

 ordinary power of endurance. He had a generous 

 spirit united with great strength of purpose. Noth- 

 ing adverse disheartened him ; no difficulties affrighted 

 him. 



In a sketch of Dr. Howe, published in the twentieth 

 volume of the Transactions of the National Medical 

 Association, Dr. Wilder, the secretary, says : u He 

 also became a member of the various Eclectic organiza- 

 tions the Ohio State and the National Eclectic Med- 



