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LOVELL 719 LOZIER hospital, he was chairman of the lecture fac- ulty, lecturing here and in the Garfield School for Nurses for several years. He was a member of the Medical Society for forty-seven years, its president in 1876, and corresponding secretary in 1868, also president of the District Medical Association for three years, 1870 to 1872. On November 24, 1858, he married Maria Lansing, daughter of William A. Green, Brooklyn, New York. She died in 1866, and he, suddenly, March 18, 1901. Daniel Smith Lamb. Minutes of Medical Society, D. C, March 20 and April 3, 1901. Who's Who in America, 1901-2. Lovell, Joseph (1788-1836) Joseph Lowell, surgeon-general of the Army, was born at Boston, December 22, 1788, graduated from Harvard in 1807 and studied medicine under Dr. Ingalls, of Boston, grad- uating M. D. from Harvard in 1811. He en- tered military service as surgeon of the 9th Infantry in May, 1812, getting the charge of the general hospital at Burlington, Vermont, where in August, 1814, he became hospital surgeon. Upon the formal organization of the army medical department he was, in 1818, appointed surgeon-general. He then organ- ized the department and revised and reissued the regulations for its government and in 1821 still further improved and elaborated the or- ganization, giving it the form which it re- tained up to 1861. In 1834 he instituted the system of examinations for admission to the medical corps and secured the final abolition of the whiskey ration in the army. He also administered the affairs of the medical de- partment in the early part of the Seminole War, and died October 17, 1836. James Evelyn Pilcher. Jour, of the Asso. of Military Surgs. of the U. S., J-ames Evelyn Pilcher, 1904, vol. xiv. Port. The Surg.-Gens of the U. S. A., Carlisle, Pa., 1905. Portrait. LoTing Starling (1827-1911) Starling Loving, teacher and writer, of Co- lumbus, Ohio, was born in Russellville, Ky., in 1827, and graduated from Starling Medical College, Columbus, O., in 1844. After gradu- ation he went to New York City and secured by competitive examination the position of in- terne in Bellevue Hospital. Subsequently he served in the same capacity in Wards Island Hospital in 1850-51, and in the Charity Hos- pital, 1851-53. During his service in New York an epidemic of cholera occurred, and he came into contact with a large number of cases. Compelled by ill health to seek a warmer climate, he accepted the position of surgeon to the Panama Railroad, and served during the years 1853 and 1854. During the next two years he traveled through the West Indies, and practised for a time in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Returning to Columbus, Ohio, he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in Star- ling Medical College in 1856 and was profes- sor of therapeutics from 1857 to 1876. Dur- ing this time he served as surgeon to the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, seeing considerable field service. In 1863 he was physician to the Ohio Penitentiary, during the time that Con- federate General John Morgan was confined there. In 1876 he was appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Star- ling Medical College, and served in this capac- ity for thirty years. He was dean and trustee of the college for nearly twenty-two years. When Starling Medical College was merged with the Ohio University he was made profes- sor emeritus. As a speaker his language was terse and forceful and when aroused it left no doubt as to his meaning. He was the author of numerous contribu- tions to medical literature and was an active member of the Columbus Medical Society and once its president. He was a life mem- ber of the Ohio State Medical Association, and served as president and also a member, and a vice-president, of the American Medi- cal Association. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the Bellevue Hos- pital Alumni Society. He died in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1911. A. G. Drury. Ohio State Med. Jour., Sept., 1911. Lozier, Clemence Sophia (1813-1888) Clemence Sophia Lozier, American homeo- pathic physician and specialist in diseases of women and children, was born December 11, 1813, at Plainfield, New Jersey, the daughter of David Harned and Hannah Walker Harned. She went to Plainfield Academy. In 1829 she married Abraham Witton Lozier, archi- tect and builder, of New York. After the death of her husband, she began the study of medicine in the Rochester Eclectic Medical College in 1849, and graduated at the Syra- cuse Medical College in 1853. She then began to practise in New York, and gave lectures in her own house on physiology and hygiene in 1860, which proved to be the beginning of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, founded through her efforts in 1863. In 1867 she visited Europe to study hospitals and gain improvements for her own. She was clinical professor in the New York