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DEROSSET 307 DESROSIERS vived him. For the last twenty years of life he was wholly blind, "but," as a friend de- clares, "despite this handicap he continued the practice of his profession as a specialist, work- ing in surgery by the hands of others. A not- able case of his almost uncanny skill, despite his blindness, occurred some years ago, in n:astoid disease. The surgery to be employed •was of the most delicate nat'ure, and the sur- geon assisting Dr. De Roaldes was operating •with extreme caution. After the operation had proceeded to the point the operator thought ■could be followed with safety to the patient, the blind surgeon gently touched the affected part, and said to his coadjutor, "I would go •deeper here." A further incision was made, and the need for the additional cut, which ex- posed diseased bone, was shown. He died at his home in New Orleans, June 13, 1918. Thomas Hall Shastid. Private sources. DeRosset Family This family furnished North Carolina with ■six members of the medical profession, all liv- ing for the most part in the city of Wilmington, and descendants of Armand John DeRosset. The members of the family practised con- tinuously for one hundred and forty-six years. DeRosset, Armand John, (1695-1760). He held the degree of M. D. from the University of Basel. Dr. Armand John DeRosset was a Huguenot and came from Narborne, France, to New Liverpool, North Carolina, now called Wil- mington, before 1735, with his wife and three children. He founded St. James Episcopal Church and became a leader. One son, Moses John DeRosset (1726-1767), raised a company of troops for service beyond the borders and was mayor of the town. DeRosset, Armand John, 2d (1767-1859). He graduated froTi Princeton, at that time the College of New Jersey, in 1787 and re- ceived his medical degree in 1790 from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a pupil and a great friend of Benjamin Rush; there is preservea an interesting correspondence between them. Dr. DeRosset entered on an extensive practice in Wilmington and kept in active service for sixty-nine years. His reputation extended over the South. His last work was attending a woman of sixty-one years in confinement. For many years he was port physician of Wilmington. DeRosset, Armand John, 3d (1824-1896). He was son of Moses John, 2d, and prac- tised medicine in Wilmington. DeRosset, Moses John, 2d (1796-1826). He had his academic degree from the University of North Carolina in 1816 and his medical diploma from the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York, in 1818. He practised medicine in co-partnership with his father. In the yellow-fever epidemic of 1821 he was particularly active and skilful. Though he practised but six years before his untimely end, he left a splendid reputation. DeRosset, Moses John, 3d (1838-1881). Dr. Moses John DeRosset, 3d, was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina, July 4, 1838. His early schooling was in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, in Diedrich's Academy. After three years he spent six months in Co- logne and returned from Europe in 1857, hav- ing chosen medicine as his profession. At the age of twenty-one he received his M. D. from the University of New York (1860). He was resident physician in Bellevue Hospital until the Civil War broke out, when he became assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. After the war he settled in Baltimore where he was appointed adjunct to the professor of chemistry in the University of Maryland and professor of chemistry in the Dental School. In 1873 he removed to North Carolina to practise in diseases of the eye and ear, but in a few years went to New York, where he lived until just before his death, which occurred May 1, 1881. in Wilmington, N. C. Dr. DeRosset was a remarkable student, possessing a retentive memory and high intellectual talents. He was a voluminous writer. He joined Thomas F. Wood in 1878 in founding the North Caro- lina Medical Journal and continued as its edi- tor until 1881. He translated Bouchardat's "Annuaire" (1867) and contributed freely to journals. His last paper appeared in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, October, 1878, and was entitled "The Muscle of Accommodation and Its Mode of Action." James Sprunt Historical Monograph No. 4, by K. P. Battle. North Carolina Med Jour, May, 1881, vol. vii. Med. Record, N. Y., 1881, vol. xix. Desrosiers, Hughes Evariste (1853-1899). Hughes E. Desrosiers, professor of materia medica in Laval University, Montreal, was born at St. Hugues, Quebec, July 9, 1853, the son of Dr. Jean-Baptiste and Emerande Carties Desrosiers. After graduating at the College de St. Hyacinthe he studied medicine at Laval University and received the degree of doctor of medicine there in 1876. Practice was begun under his father at St. Marcel but