The New International Encyclopædia/Agnew, Cornelius Rea

AG'NEW, Cornelius Rea (1830-88). An American jihysician. He was born in New York City, graduated from Columbia College in 1849, and from the College of Physicians' and Sur- geons in 1852. In 1858 he vas appointed sur- geon-general of New York State, and during the Civil War was medical director of the New York Volunteer Hospital. He was prominent in the United States Sanitary Commission. He assist- ed in founding the Columbia School of Jlines in 1884, founded the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hos- pital in 18ti8, and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. He became president of the State Medical Society in 1872. one of the trustees of Colnmbia College in 1874, and was a professor in the Colh'ge of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a member of many medical anil scientific societies, and contributed much to the literature of the diseases of the eye a,nd ear.