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TREADWELL 11S9 TRENAMAN from sixty-eight cases, that in obstinate rigidity of the OS uteri, incisions are not fraught with danger to the adjacent organs. "Statistics of Placenta P'revia," "Transactions, American Medical Association," 185S, received the prize from this Association, and fills ninety-four pages of the "Transactions," and other articles were contributed to the Nezv York Medical Journal and the American Journal of Obstet- rics. He was always longing for leisure to write more, but was not very strong during the last five years of his life and died on Sunday morning, September 1, 1883, after an illness of only five days' duration. Trans. Amer. Gynec. Soc. 1883, F. Barker, New York, 1884, vol. viii. Portrait. Treadwell, John Dexter (1768-1833). John Dexter Treadwell of Salem, Massa- chusetts, was responsible for drawing the act of the Massachusetts Legislature, passed March 2, 1803, which reorganized the Massa- chusetts Medical Society and gave it the form of goernment under which the society has lived ever since. The son of Rev. John and Mehitabel Dexter Treadwell, he was born at Lynn, Massachu- setts, May 29, 1768, and graduated from Har- vard College in 1788. As was the custom of the day, he apprenticed himself for the term of three years to a prominent practitioner of medicine and was fortunate to be a pupil of Edward A. Holyoke (q. v.) of Salem, the first president of the state medical society. Finish- ing his novitiate, Treadwell practised three years in Marblehead, nearby, and returned to Salem to pass the rest of his life. He was a man of strong individuality and extensive learning, being versed in the Greek and He- brew scriptures ; his practice was large. On June 3, 1801, Dr. Treadwell became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society when its membership was limited to seventy fellows ; he read a paper at that meeting on the "cow-pox." Seeing that the society, then in an inert condition, needed to be democra- tized, and its charter altered so that it might accomplish its aims, he was instrumental in having a committee appointed at a meeting in January, 1803, to consider what changes should be made. The committee reported during the same month, outlining the alterations desired, and Treadwell, with the assistance of Samuel Sevvall of the Harvard Class of 1776, later Chief Justice of Massachusetts, drew the bill which was submitted to the Legislature. That it was a good and workable law is attested by the fact that in its chief features it is still in force, after a period of one hundred and six- teen years. Dr. Treadvvell's name appears as being pres- ent at many of the meetings of the Society in subsequent years ; he served as councillor from the Essex District from 1805 to 1828. He received the honorary M. D. from Harvard in 1815, and was a Fellow of the American Acad- emy' of Arts and Sciences. In 1804 he married Dorothy, daugliter of Jonathan and Dorothy Ashton Goodhue. Their son. Dr. John Goodhue Treadwell (1S0S-18S6). was a prominent practitioner of Salem ; his bequest of $50,000 and his library founded the "Treadwell Library" at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Treadwell died at Salem, June 6, 1833. The Council of the Massachusetts Medical Society happened to be holding a meeting on that day and a vote was passed in which it was stated that the members had "great respect for the character, talents and professional learning of their late asso- ciate, and a high sense of his services to this society ; especially in its renovation in the year 1803." Walter L. Burr.ge. Inform, from Mr. John Robinson. New England Hist. Genealog. Reg., 1906, vol. U p. 194. Hist. Coll. Essex Institute. Salem, vol. v, p. 278. Ibid, vol. i.x. pt. 2, p. 2i. Salem Gazette, Jnne 7, 1833. Diary of William Bentley. Address by R. H. Fitz, M. D., Washington, D. C., 1894. Records of Mass. Med. Soc., 1801-1828, mss. Trenaman, Thomas (1843-1914). Thomas Trenaman was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 16, 1843, a son of Samuel and Mary Ann Trenaman, who settled in Nova Scotia from the West of England about the year 1835. He was educated at King's College, Windsor, N. S., and pursued his preparatory medical studies in the office of Dr. D. McN. Parker, Halifax, graduating in 1869 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. The degree of doctor in medicine ad cundem was conferred by the University of King's College, Windsor, N. S., at its Ericoenia in 1887. From the date of the formation of the 66th Volunteer Battalion of Infantry in 1869, to the spring of 1885, he was one of its surgeons. The pressing nature of professional duties, which were continually increasing, necessitated his retirement, at tliis date, from active ser- vice. In the year 1876 he was chosen by ac- clamation as city councillor, and for nine years consecutively was alderman for his home dis- trict. From 1879 to 1882 he was a member of