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SHATTUCK 1040 SHAW medicine, will you do me the favor to carry this note to Mr. K., No. S Congress Street?" The grateful student wishing to make some return for a free consultation and for the kindly interest in his case, gladly took the note to Mr. K., only to learn that it was an order to K., the tailor, for a suit of clothes for the bearer of the note. Shattuck was president of the Massachu- setts Medical Society from 1836 to 1840 and delivered the annual discourse in 1828. Many years before the establishment of the Board of Health he was one of the consulting phy- sicians of the City of Boston. He avoided public office as a rule. Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol, pastor of the West Church, but a few steps from Dr. Shattuck's home, said of his last hours, " 'Pray with me,' was commonly his first salutation as I entered his sick chamber. 'I want your prayers, they are a great com- fort and consolation. Pray not for my re- covery, I am going to God. I wish in your prayer to go as a sinner.' " At various times he gave Harvard College over $26,000. His donation of $7,000 ensured the foundation of Dartmouth College Observa- tory, and he gave many books and portraits to the college library. The year before he died he established the Shattuck professorship of pathological anat- omy in the Harvard Medical School by a gift of $14,000. Of his six children all but the oldest son, George Chejme, died when young. Shattuck assisted Dr. James Thacher (q. v.) with his American Medical Biography, as mentioned by Thacher in the preface and also in his Dispensatory. Shattuck had an ex- traordinary talent for writing medical papers and carried off the Boylston Prize several years in succession. Later in life he did much for the foundation and enlargement of the New England Medical Journal and the Ulassa- chusctts Dispensatory, of which he was one of the committee of publication. Walter L. Burrage. Shattuck Memorials, Lemuel Shattuck, 1855. Memoirs bv Edward Tarvis. M. D., and Discourse hy Rev. t. A. Bartol, 1854. History Harvard Med. School, T. F. Harrington, 1905. Portrait in the Surg. -Gen. 's Lib., Wash., D. C. Shattuck, George Cheyne (1813-1893) George Cheyne Shattuck, differentiator of typhus and typhoid fever, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 22, 1813, the son of Dr. George Cheyne (q. v.) and Eliza Cheever Davis Shattuck, and grandson, on his mother's side, of the Hon. Caleb Davis, all of Boston. His early education was obtained at the Boston Latin School and at the famous "Round Hill School" at Northampton, Massa- chusetts. It was there, probably, that the interest in educational matters began which led him in later life to found St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. In his early life his love of study was, perhaps, over-stimu- lated by his father, so that he was inclined to work beyond the strength of a not too rugged constitution. He received his A. B. from Harvard College in 1831, and after spending a year at the Harvard Law School he entered the Harvard Medical School, took his M. D. in 1835 and then went abroad for study. In common with his friends, Bow- ditch, Stille and Metcalfe, he was much in- fluenced by the methods, the teaching and personality of Louis, with whom he kept up an intimacy until the latter's death forty years later. Shattuck and Stille read papers before the Paris Society for Medical Observation, in 1838, that served to mark out the distinc- tion between typhus and typhoid fevers. On April 9, 1840, having settled to practise in Boston, he married Anne Henrietta Brune of Baltimore. For nearly twenty years he was a professor in the Harvard Medical School; from 1855 to 1859 professor of clinical medicine, and from 1859 to 1873 professor of the theory and practice of medicine. In 1849 he suc- ceeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as visiting phy- sician to the Massachusetts General Hospital and served in this capacity for thirty-six years. He was president of the Massachusetts Med- ical Society from 1872 to 1874, and by bequest established the annual Shattuck lectureship for that society, and he was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died March 22, 1893, being survived by a daughter and two sons, one of the latter being Frederick Cheever Shattuck, who be- came professor of clinical medicine in the Harvard Medical School, and the other George Brune Shattuck, editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal for twenty years. An oil painting of Dr. Shattuck is in the Boston Medical Library. Walter L. Burrage. Shattuck Memorials, Lemuel Shattuck, 1855. A Brief Sketch of the Life of Dr. George Cheyne Shattuck, by Caleb David Bradlee, D. D.. 1894. A Sermon by Henry A. Coit, D. D., LL.D., 1893. Boston Med. & Surg. Jour., vol. cxviii, 354. Shaw, Charles Stoner (1856-1899) Charles Stoner Shaw was born in Pitts- burg, September 13, 1856, the second son of Dr. Thomas Wilson and Catherine Stoner Shaw. His early education was obtained at