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KIRTLAND
in 1S91, assistant surgeon. Dr. Kirk-
patrick was the first in Canada, and
one of the first in America, to repair
with success the stomach wall after
perforation by ulcer; and he had a
good record in the performance of
the operation for resection of the
bowel, and of gastro-enterostomy.
He was also a competent managing
editor of the "Montreal Medical Jour-
nal." The cause of death was tuber-
cular meningitis.
A. M.
KirUand, Jared Potter (1793-1877).
Jared Potter Kirtland, an eminent naturalist of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, November 10, 1793. In early life he was adopted into the family of his grand- father. Dr. Jared Potter, a physician of AVallingford. His father, Turhand Kirtland, removed in 1803 to Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio, leaving his son Jared in the home of his grand- father. The boy received his early education in the district and academic schools of "Wallingford and Cheshire. Even at this period he is said to have manifested a predilection for the natural sciences, and studied botany and scientific agriculture systematic- ally. In 1811 the death of his grand- father, who left the young Jared his medical library and a sum of monej' sufficient to pay for his medical edu- cation in Edinburgh, enabled him to study medicine with Dr. John Andrews of Walhngford and Dr. Sylvester Wells of Hartford, Connecticut. At this period too he made the acquaint- ance of Prof. Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College, who took an interest in the bright boy and offered him many facilities for the study of chemistr3^ Unfortunately the outbreak of the war with England at this time compelled the abandonment of the plan of com- pleting his education in Edinburgh, and in 1813 he became the first medical matriculant in the first class at Yale Col- lege. Ill health, however, compelled him
to stop studying awhile, but later he
took a course of lectures at the ITni-
versity of Pennsylvania, but subsecjuent-
ly returned to Connecticut and gradu-
ated from Yale College in March, 1815.
During his attendance at Yale he took
special courses in botany from Prof.
Ives, and in mineralogy and geology
from Prof. Silliman, and devoted
some time likewise to the study of
zoolog}'. Immediately after grad-
uation Dr. Kirtland began practice
in Wallingford, dividing his time
between some practice and the study
of scientific agriculture, botany and
natural history, and five years he
practised in Durham, Connecticut.
In the same year he married Caroline
Atwater, of Wallingford, and had two
children. The death of his wife and
one of his daughters, which occurred
in 1823, was a severe trial which un-
settled him for a time and revived a
desire to remove to Ohio, and in the
same year he settled with his father
in the town of Poland. Here, almost
in spite of himself, he found an active
medical practice forced upon him,
though it had been his desire and in-
tention to devote himself to agricul-
tural pursuits. In 1815 he married
Hannah F. Toucey, of Newton, Connec-
ticut. At the close of some service in
the Legislature, Dr. Kirtland resumed
practice in Poland, but in 1837
became professor of the theory and
practice of medicine in the Ohio Medical
College at Cincinnati, which position
he filled for the next five years, and
in the following year, having resigned
his position in Cincinnati, removed
with his family to Cleveland, and ac-
cepted and filled until 1864 the chair of
the theory and practice of medicine in
the newly organized Cleveland Medical
College.
Dr. Kirtland was actively interested in the work of the Medical Conven- tion of Ohio, was president of that body in 1839, and a paper from his pen on " Irregular Malarious Diseases and Their Counteractions by means
