Professor of nervous and mental diseases in the same institutions, 1888-90. Member of the Chicago Medical, the Illinois State Medical, the Los Angeles County Medical, the Medical Society of the State of California and of the American Medical Associations. Pathologist at St. Luke's and Cook County Hospitals, 1885-8. Attending Neurologist St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, 189092 and at the Cook County Hospital, 1892-3. Post-graduate study in Berlin, Prague and Vienna, 1884-5. Married Charlotte J. Halliday July 7, 1898, and had one son.

Association, Medical Society of the State of California, and the American Medical Association. Charter member of the parent chapter of the Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity. Professor of surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Southern California. Attending surgeon at the Los Angeles County Hospital. Member of the Board of Councillors o. the Los Angeles County Medical Association.

WOOD, JAMES WATSON, Long Beach, Cal. Born in Geneva, N. Y., November 17, 1856, of English descent. Attended the Geneva High School. Student at the Rush Medical College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, receiving the M. D. degree from the latter institution in 1883. Came to California in 1887. In private practice at Palestine, Tex., 1883-84; at Junata, Neb., 1884-86; at Long Beach since that time. Health Officer in the City of Long Beach, 1890-98, and member of the City Council of Long Beach, 1898-00. Member of the Board of Trustees of Long Beach, 1894-1906. Member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, Southern California Medical Society, and the Medical Society of the State of California. Has written papers on surgical subjects. Married May McDonald on October 21, 1884, and has one son and one daughter.

WILLIAM BELL WOOD, M. D. WOOD, WILLIAM BELL, San Fernando Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Born at St. Joseph, Mo., Student at the Missouri August 21, 1851. Medical College, St. Louis, receiving M. D. degree in 1875. Came to California in 1887. In private practice at Orange, Cal., 1887-02; at Los Angeles since that time. Member of the Orange County Medical Society.

HELEN LOUISE HOWE HILL
WOODROFFE, M. D.

WOODROFFE, HELEN LOUISE HOWE HILL,
Born in Ra-
Grant Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.
eine, Wis., November 4, 1871, of English-
American descent. Student at the Denver
Homeopathic Medical College, receiving the
M. D. degree in 1901. Came to California in
1884. Member of the Los Angeles County
Homeopathie Society.

CLIFFORD A. WRIGHT, M. D. WRIGHT, CLIFFORD A., Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Fresno, Cal., March 14, 1882, of American parentage. Attended the San Jacinto High School. Student at the College of Medicine, U. S. C., receiving the M. D. degree in 1907. Interne at the Los Angeles County Hospital, 1907. In private practice at Los Angeles since that time. Assistant Police Surgeon of the City of Los Angeles.

THOMPSON BARRETT WRIGHT, M. D.

In pri

YOST, FRANCIS OLIVER, Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Michigan, June 18, 1871, of American descent. English-Dutch stock. Attended the Boston High School. Student in the Harvard University Medical School, receiving M. D. degree in 1893. Came to California in 1893. vate practice at Los Angeles since that time. In general practice with special attention to obstetrics and pediatrics. Formerly professor of pediatrics College of Physicians and Surgeons of Los Angeles. At the present time, professor of obstetrics at the same institution. Member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, the Los Angeles Academy of Medicine, the Southern California Medical Society, the Medical Society of the State of California and the American Medical Association. Married Myrtle Kilpatrick, 1990, and has one son.

LORENZO PAUL ZAHN, M. D.

ZAHN, LORENZO PAUL, Hollywood, Cal. Born at Los Angeles, Cal., September 21, 1875, of German-English descent. Attended the Los Angeles High School. Student at Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, receiving the M. D. degree in 1904. Interne at the German Deaconess Hospital, 1904-1905. In private practice at Los Angeles, 1905-6; at Hollywood since that time. Professor of Physiology and Minor Surgery at the Los Angeles Eclectic Polyclinic. Member of the Los Angeles County Homeopathic Society, the Los Angeles County Eclectic Society, the Southern California Homeopathic Society, the California State Homeopathic Society, the American Institute of Homeopathy and of the Hahnemann Society. Chairman of the Sanitary Committee of the South Hollywood Improvement Association. Married Laura Elizabeth Shurtleff, July 14, 1903, and has one daughter.

CHARLES ELIAS ZERFING, M. D.

ZERFING, CHARLES ELIAS, Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Pennsylvania, July 20, 1873, of American descent, Colonial-German stock. Attended Ashland High School. Student at the University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, 1891–5, Post-graduate receiving M. D. degree in 1895.

work in Europe in 1904-5. Interne at the Block

ley Hospital, Philadelphia, 1895-6. Came to California in 1905. In private practice at Lead, S. D., 1896-1903. Professor of Clinical Medicine of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Los Angeles. Member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of California, and the American Medical Association. Has written papers on Malignant Diseases of the Pancreas," etc.

PAUL ALLEN ADAMS, M. D. ADAMS, PAUL ALLEN, Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Boston, Mass., August 24, 1875, of distinguished colonial-American descent. Attended the Helena, Mont., High School and Leland Stanford, Jr., University, receiving the A. B. degree from Stanford in 1898. Student at the Columbia University, Medical Department, receiving the M. D. degree in 1893. Interne at the Brooklyn Hospital and at the Sloane Maternity Hospital. Came to California in 1905. In private practice at Los Angeles since that time. Member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Assistant Attending Physician at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Has written a number of papers on medical subjects. Major and Surgeon of the 7th Infantry, N. G. C. Married Maude Bertina Gregory in 1898, and had one daughter. Member and Trustee Temple Baptist Church. Southern California Lodge 278, F. & A. M. Entered Medical Department, Army Reserve Corps, and died at Honolulu, July 3, 1910.

HOMER O. BATES, M. D.

Physicians and Surgeons, receiving M. D. degree in 1878, and at the Rush Medical College, receiving M. D. degree in 1885; and at the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, receiving M. D. degree in 1901. Came to California in 1905. In private practice at Millersburg, Ia., 1870-1885: Chicago, 1885-1905; at Long Beach since that time. Member of the Faculty of Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, 1900-1905. Member of the Chicago Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Los Angeles County Medical, the Medical Society of the State of California, and the American Medical Association. Member of the Illinois Club of Chicago, President of the Long Beach Branch of the Los Angeles County Medical Asso iation. Formerly attached to the surgical staff of the Cook County Hospital and the Frances Willard Hospital of Chicago. ExSurgeon of the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad of Chicago, Ill. Married Dr. Laura C. Cowgill, January 19, 1871, and had two sons, both physicians. Died at Sierra Madre, C'al

JAMES PINCKNEY BOOTH, M. D.

as

Galveston Medical College, Texas, receiving M. D. degree in 1871. House surgeon at St. Mary's Infirmary, Galveston, 1871, and sistant demonstrator of anatomy, Galveston Medical College, 1871-2. Came to California in 1887. In private practice at Fort Worth, Texas, 1873-9; at Needles, 1887-04; at Los Angeles since that time. Member of the legislature of New Mexico, 1885-6; sheriff of San Bernardino Co., Cal., 1892-3; professor of hygiene and State medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Los Angeles, 1906. Member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, the Medical Society of the State of California, and the American Medical Association. Married Kate Byrne in 1871 and had one daughter and four sons. Died October 22, 1909.

EDWIN CHARLES BUELL, M. D.

the untimely taking away of our friend and confrere.

"Dr. Buell was eminent in his professional work, universally respected by all physicians who know him, and deeply beloved by those who were thrown in close association with him.

"As a citizen he was honorable, upright and public spirited, as a man he was delightful, lovable and generous. One year ago he was moving into a beautiful residence to enjoy the well-earned comforts of an ideal home. In December, 1909, his wife suddenly died from an organic heart disease. This trip around the world, which his friends hoped would bring him surcease of sorrow and renewed health, ended with a distressing death in a foreign land.

"To his brother and sister in Ohio we send this as a testimonial of the high character of Dr. Buell, and the love and esteem that we bore him."

BUELL, EDWIN CHARLES. After this book had gone to press, news was received of the death of Dr. E. C. Buell at Genoa, Italy, on July 26, 1910. For biographical data, the reader is referred to page 114. It may not be out of place to here print the resolutions passed by the California State Board of Medical Examiners.

"Whereas, Dr. E. C. Buell, who had practiced medicine and been noted as a surgeon in Los Angeles for over twenty years, and who was a member of the California State Board of Medical Examiners from 1901 to 1907, and who served as the first president of the board, died of appendicitis in Genoa, Italy, July 26, 1910; therefore be it

"Resolved, that we, the members of the California State Board of Medical Examiners in session assembled in San Francisco, August 1, 1910, heeaby register our deep sorrow at

Among the leading physicians and surgeons of Southern California stands the name of Thomas Albert Davis, whose early demise at the age of 42 occurred in San Diego on the last day of the year 1892. Dr. Davis was born in Fredericksburg, Md. Studied medicine in Missouri, graduating from the St. Louis Medical College. After his graduation he engaged in practice in Arnoldsville, Mo., but soon afterwards entered the army as an actg. asst. surgeon, serving actively in the field with troops on the plains in protracted Indian campaigns, where on many occasions he exhibited great personal courage in attending to the wounded under fire. After leaving the army he practiced in Soccoro, N. M., from whence he came