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TUTTLE 1169 TUTTLE Operation of Ankle-joint," 1868; "Facts Re- garding the Anatomical Difference Between the Negro and White Races (locality of Hy- men)," 1868; "Why Should We Support the Perineum During Labour at All?" 1877. He belonged to the American Medical So- ciety of Paris, the New York Pathological Society, and the South Carolina Medical As- ^°'='^>'°"- Davina Waterson. Med. News, Philadelphia, P. P. Porcher, 1833, vol. xlii. Obit, in Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, Chicago, 1883, vol. i. Phys. and Siirgs. of U. S. W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Tuttle, George Montgomery (1856-1912). George Montgomery Tuttle, New York gy- necologist, was born in Rochester, New York, October 2, 1856. His first American ances- tors on his father's side were William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from Gravesend to Boston on the Planter in 1635, and who sub- sequently moved to New Haven. The .Tuttle homestead is now a part of the campus of Yale University. Dr. Tutlle's father, James Harvey Tuttle, was a Unitarian minister, who occupied churches in Rochester, where Dr. Tuttle was born, and later in Chicago and Minneapolis. His mother was Harriet Merriman. Dr. Tuttle's early schooling was in public and pri- vate schools in Chicago and Minneapolis, and in Dresden, Germany. He prepared for college at Phillips Acadeiny in Andover, Mass., and graduated from Yale College in 1877, then studying medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, graduating in 1880. After serving as interne at the New York Hospital for twenty months he became physician-in-chief at the New York Slate Emi- grant Hospital on Ward's Island, and later went abroad, spending most of his time in Leipsig, Dresden and Prague, and chiefly in the study of gynecology and obstetrics. In 1885 he was appointed professor of gyne- cology at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons and retained that position until he re- signed in 1903, and he was an attending gynec- ologist to the Roosevelt Hospital, from 1888 until his death in 1912. Previous to Dr. Tut- tle's appointment as attending gynecologist to the Roosevelt Hospital, the gynecological work of the hospital was largely of a medical nature and closely associated with the medical divi- sion of the hospital. Influenced doubtless by his observations abroad, and by the trend of the times, the service under Dr. Tuttle's di- rection became more and more of a surgical type. From near the beginning of his profes- sional career both in hospital and private work he devoted himself to gynecology exclusively and had a large and important following. As a teacher, Dr. Tuttle was at his best. He had a full control of the language and an excellent power of description and was able to teach by didactic lectures, the important points of a subject being made so plain to the student by his descriptions that they were not forgotten. His lectures were well attended and he was one of the most popular members of the faculty. In the practice of gynecolog}', his strongest points were skill as a diagnostician, his judg- ment and his personality. He read French .and German fluently and had a wide knowl- edge of the literature of his specialty, which with his extensive experience made him a consultant of great vakie. He was a skilful and bold operator but for him operating was never easy, every operation of importance being a source of anxiety to him and an un- fortunate result, a cause for depression. Dur- ing the latter years of his life he mixed but very little with medical m^n other than his personal friends, rarely attended medical meet- ings, wrote little or nothing for medical litera- ture, and as a result, none but those intimately associated with him in his work, derived the benefit of his keen mind, wide experience and delightful personality. He was a member of the New York Acad- emj' of Medicine, the American Gynecological Society, the New York Obstetrical Society, and other medical organizations, but his activi- ties in these societies were not as great as in his college and private work. Dr. Tuttle was married in 1906 to M^bel Chauvenet Holden, daughter of Edward Hold- en, the astronomer, in Florence, Italy. They had one child, Natalie Chauvenet Tuttle. Dr. Tuttle died of acute cardiac disease, on October 29, 1912, at the age of fifty-six. Howard Canning Taylor. Shutter's Life of The Rev. James H. Tuttle, D. D. Class Books. Yale 77. Tuttle, James Percival (1857-1913). James Percival Tuttle was born at Fulton, Missouri, on November 11, 1857. He was the son of Warren H. Tuttle and Sasafi Dyer Tuttle, and was educated at Westminster Col- lege, Missouri, from which he received the degree of A. B. and in 1880 that of A. M. He was graduated in medicine in 1881, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a scholarship by competitive examination. Dr. Tuttle served as an interne in Blockley Hos- pital, Philadelphia. He became connected with