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RODMAN 991 ROE Texas. Dr. Rodman moved to Louisville and became demonstrator of surgery in the medical department of the University of Louisville and clinical assistant to Dr. David W. Yandell (q. v.). Here he stayed from 1889 to 1893, when he took the chair of surgery in the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville. In September, 1898, having accepted the professor- ship of the principles of surgery and clinical surgery in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, he moved to that city to spend the rest of his life. From 1900 to 1908 Dr. Rodman held also the chair of surgery and clinical surgery in the Woman's Medical Col- lege of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. One of his pupils there speaks of him as being a very good teacher, his ideas being logically arranged and vi^ell expressed. As a surgeon he was an irritable but skilful operator. He had much public spirit, and served as president of the American Association of Medi- cal Colleges in 1902 and 1903, and his activities in this organization made possible the founding of the National Board of Examiners, for he was deeply interested in this project of stand- ardization of examination for medical licensure and was instrumental in securing the financing of the work, and he addressed medical meet- ings in the promotion of the undertaking for several years, living to see it well established. He had a clear-cut, dignified style in speaking, set off with the grace and force of one whose native bent for oratory had been developed by practice. Dr. Rodman was active in the affairs of the American Medical Association, acting as chair- man of the section of surgery in 1897 and delivering the oration, on gastric ulcer, in 1900, and he was a member of the board of trustees from 1900 to 1903. Finally, he became presi- dent of that organization in 1915, and died while yet in office, March 8, 1916, from pneu- monia. He wrote a paper on "Cancer of the Breast," read before the British Medical Association in 1904, and a monograph on "Diseases of the Mammary Gland," which appeared in 1908, besides furnishing chapters to Keen's "System of Surgery" and Bryant's "Practice of Sur- gery," and articles for the medical journals. He was an authority on the surgical treatment of mammary cancer, and he was interested in the Society for the Control of Cancer. Memoir by J. W. Holland, M. D., Trans. Coll. Phys., Philadelphia, 1916, vol. xxxviii, pp. 69- 72. .Tour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1916, vol. Ixvi, p. 908. Portrait. Personal Communication. Roe, John Orlando (1848-1915). John O. Roe, laryngologist, of Rochester, New York, the son of Stephen Smith Roe and Hannah Saphronia Randall, was born at Pat- chogue. Long Island, February 3, 184S. His early education was gained at the schools of his native town, at the Hudson River Institute, at the Wilbraham Academy of Massachusetts, and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Entering upon the study of medicine at the medical department of the last-named insti- tution, he received the degree of M. D. in 1870. Coming to New York, he matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, receiving his diploma in the class of 1871, and securing a prize for his graduating thesis. He remained in New York for a year, taking graduate courses, and returned to Rochester in 1872, where he at once entered upon the special practice of diseases of the upper air passages. He soon recognized the necessity for a more thorough course of training, and to secure this he went abroad, where he de- voted two years of particularly earnest work in the clinics of Vienna, London and Berlin. Returning to Rochester, Dr. Roe quickly made a position for himself which was not long in being generally recognized. He ac- quired a large practice, and was for many years laryngologist to the Rochester Hospital. He was elected a fellow of the American Laryngo- logical Association at its first meeting, held in New York City, June 10, 11 and 12, 1879. He was elected president of the Association in 1898. He had also been at different times president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, of the Central New York Medi- cal Association, the Rochester Academy of Medicine, and the Rochester Pathological So- ciety. He was one of the founders of the Rochester Academy of Medicine, and was deeply interested in the work of building up a medical library for the use of the members. Dr. Roe was a member of the Seventh Inter- national Medical Congress in London, Eng- land; the Eighth International Medical Con- gress in Copenhagen, Denmark : the Ninth In- ternational Medical Congress in Washington, D. C, on which occasion he was secretary of the section in laryngology ; the Tenth Inter- national Medical Congress in Berlin, Germany, and the Pan-American Medical Congress in Washington, D. C. He received the degree of LL. D. from his alma mater, the University of Michigan, in 1913. In the rectification of nasal deformities he was skilful, especially in the submucous method as applied to the septum and the nasal bones.