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WILLIAM LEE. 
In 1861 he was acting medical cadet at the Infirmary 
(Judiciary Square) Hospital, District of Columbia; in 1862 
medical student at St. Elizabeth Hospital; from 1865 to 
1867 lecturer and adjunct Professor of Physiology in the 
Medical Department of Columbian University, District <$ 
Columbia, and full professor of the same subject in the same 
institution from 1872 till his death, in 1893. 
In 1863 he graduated M. D. from the College of Physi¬ 
cians and Surgeons, New York, and for two years thereafter 
was resident physician to Bellevue Hospital. He returned 
to Washington in 1865 and entered upon the practice of his 
profession. In 1871 he was co-editor of the National Medical 
Journal, Washington, District of Columbia. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the Medical Society and the Medical Association of 
the District of Columbia; also member of the American 
Medical Association, of which he was librarian for many 
years. His fondness for books brought him into association 
with librarians, and thus we find him librarian of the Medi¬ 
cal Society, librarian of the Cosmos Club, of which he was 
one of the founders, and a diligent worker on the Toner 
collection, now a part of the Library of Congress, upon which 
collection he performed valuable work in cataloguing and 
classifying. 
He was a member, of the New England Historical and 
Genealogical Society, of the Sons of the American Revolu¬ 
tion, of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, and of the Numismatic Society. He was on the 
medical staff of the Emergency Hospital, in charge of the 
section of general diseases, and was on the consulting staff 
of the woman’s clinic. 
His interest in coins and medals is shown by his member¬ 
ship in the Numismatic Society and by his collection of 
medals, which is deposited in the Army Medical Museum 
and is known as the “Lee Collection.” On medical subjects 
he wrote numerous articles, which were published in the med¬ 
ical journals. He also published an article, “ Currency of 
the Confederate States, 1875,” and another on “John Leigh 
and his Descendants, 1889.” 
