Jeffries Wyman. 83 
An attack of pneumonia during his Senior year in college 
caused much anxiety, and perhaps laid the foundation of the 
pa menary affection which burdened and finally shortened his 
ife. To recover from the effects of the attack, and to guard 
against its return, he made, in the winter of 1883-84, the first of 
those pilgrimages to the coast of the Southern States, which in 
later years were so often repeated. Returning with strength 
renewed in the course of the following spring, he began the 
study of medicine under Dr. John ©. Dalton, who had suc- 
ceeded to his father’s practice at Chelmsford, but who soon 
removed to the adjacent and thriving town of Lowell. Here, 
and with his father at the McLean Asylum, and at the Medical 
College in Boston, he passed two years of profitable study. 
At the commencement of the third year he was elected house- 
student in the Medical Department, at the Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital,—then under the charge of Doctors James Jack- 
son, John Ware and Walter Channing,—a responsible position, 
not only most advantageous for the study of ees but well 
adapted to sharpen a young man’s power of observation. 
In 1887, atter receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he 
cast about among the larger country towns for a field in which 
‘0 practice his profession. Fortunately for science, he found no 
pening to his mind; so he took an office in Boston, on Wash- 
ington street, and accepted the honorable, but far from lucrative 
post of Demonstrator of Anatomy under Dr. John C. Warren, 
the ersey Professor. His means were very slender, and 
Paris in May, 1841. and gave his time at once to Human Anat- 
omy at the School of Medicine, and Comparative Anatomy 
