OBITUARY NOTICES. ill 
menced the practice of his profession, living at first on Callowhill 
near Twelfth street ; after the decease of his father, at the residence of 
the latter on Arch below Tenth, and subsequently moving to Arch 
below Fifteenth. His literary, poetic and artistic tendencies were 
such, however, as to direct him rather into other fields than those of 
the general practitioner ; he saw enough of these to broaden and ripen 
his judgment and make valuable his many writings without wasting 
his force on the mere routine of his profession. He thus early be- 
came a teacher rather than a mere practitioner, laboring with voice 
and pen for the attainment of the high ideals of good for his fellow- 
man which always inspired him. 
Among his professional activities, however, should be noted his 
services during the epidemics of cholera in Philadelphia in 1849 
and Columbia, Pa., in 1854, his observations, reflections and 
studies resulting in his work on the subject published in 1866 ; also, 
his highly valued services during the civil war as surgeon at two of 
our Government hospitals in this city, and also as volunteer at 
Gettysburg, after the battle, where I well remember how we greeted 
his useful, cheerful aid in bringing order out of the chaos into” 
which everything was thrown by the sudden demands for housing 
and care of more than 20,000 wounded and sick men and prison- 
ers of war. 
In 1849 he married Mary E., the daughter of Jeremiah Brown, 
Esq., of Philadelphia, a lady of great refinement and culture, but 
unfortunately of rather feeble physical health, the assiduous care of 
which taxed all the best qualities of his mind and heart. She was 
in every way worthy of this devotion: and their union was a very 
happy one, though care and thought for her essentially modified 
the activities which might otherwise have absorbed his attention. 
Yet these actually were such as showed him to be no mere ordinary 
man. 
He was Professor of Institutes at the Philadelphia College of 
Medicine in 1853-54; Prize Essayist at American Medical Asso- 
_ ciation in 1856 (his essay ably supporting views of the muscular 
activity of the arteries in maintaining the blood-current) ; wrote 
numerous articles for medical journals; lectured at the Franklin 
Institute on various subjects in 1857-58 ; gave a course of ten lectures 
on the Natural History of Man, advocating unity of species and 
origin, as against the views then rising of multiple origin, besides 
several other courses of lectures. Under these studies and labors 
