BLANC
BLATCHFORD
though a reserved manner made her
rather awe-inspiring to strangers.
She lived to see her views, which had been scouted half a century earlier, accepted as commonplaces and the re- forms for which her youth had been given growing and flourishing.
She died of an enterocolitis, September 8, at her summer home at York Cliffs, Maine. A. B. W.
Mary Putnam Jacobi. Women in Medicine,
in Woman's Work in America.
A. S. B. Woman's Journal, Boston, Sept. 10,
1910.
New York Evening Post, Sept. 8, 1910.
Personal information from colleagues.
Blanc, Henry (1859-1896).
Henry William Blanc was born in Louisiana, 1S59, and died in New Orleans July 25, 1896. After graduating in medicine from Tulane University he spent two years in Europe studying dermatology in Vienna, Hamburg and Paris, then became lecturer in dermatol- ogy at the Tulane University and visit- ing dermatologist to the Charity Hospital, New Orleans. He was the founder of the New Orleans Polyclinic; associate editor on The " New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal" staff and a frequent contributor to medical journals on der- matology, his writings on leprosy showing rare knowledge in one so young, and, had he lived, he would, undoubtedly, have been one of the world's best-known authorities on this disease.
J. M. W.
Blatchford, Thomas Windeatt (1794- 1S66).
Thomas W. Blatchford was born in Top- sham, Devonshire, England, on the twentieth of July, 1794. His father, the Rev. Samuel Blatchford, removed to this country in the year 1795, when Thomas was an infant, and first settled in Bedford, New York.
Blatchford's early studies were prose- cuted under the direction of his father, in Lansingburgh Academy, of which his father was the principal. In October,
1S10, he began to study medicine in the
office of Dr. John Taylor, of Lansing-
burgh, and in November, IS 13, matric-
ulated at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. In August, 1814, he was ap-
pointed resident physician, for one year,
of the New York State Prison, in Green-
wich Street, then a suburb of New York.
At the end of the year he received an offer
to travel in Europe as physician to a gen-
tleman, a purser in the United States
Navy, who during the War of 1S12 had
become suddenly wealthy and thereby lost
the balance of his mind But the patient
attempted to kill Blatchford, so upon
landing at Liverpool the engagement
was concluded, and he went to London,
where he attended two courses of lectures
at the united schools of Guy's and St.
Thomas' Hospitals, given by Sir Astley
Cooper and Prof. Cline. In the spring
of 1S16 he returned to New York, and
after attending another full course of
lectures at the college at which he had
previously matriculated, he graduated
in 1S17. His graduating thesis was upon
"Feigned Diseases," being the result
of his observations and experience dur-
ing his residence as physician at the
New York State prison. Immediately
after receiving his degree he practised at
No. 85 Fulton Street, New York, for one
year. At this time he was induced to
remove to Jamaica, Long Island, and
in February, 1S19, married Harriet, the
daughter of Thomas Wickes, a descend-
ant of one of the original patentees of the
town of Huntington in 1666.
After nine years, in consequence of arduous duty, he was attacked with fever which brought him very low, and in 1S28 he began practice in Troy.
Dr. Blatchford was favorably known by his published papers and essays, which are as follows: "Inaugural Disser- tation on Feigned Diseases," in 1817; "Letter on Corsets," in 1S23; a work entitled "Letters to Married Ladies," about 1S25; "Homeopathy Illustrated," 1842; "Report on Hydrophobia," 1S56, read before the American Medical Associ- ation and published in their transac-
