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ESKRIDGE 369 ESKRIDGE sor of diseases of women, Fort Wayne Medi- cal College in 1882, and delivered lectures on gynecology there, during the winters of 1882, '83 and '84. In the summer of 1885 he was elected to the chair of gynecology, Toledo Medical College, and lectured there in 1885-86. Dr. Entrikin was a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. He wrote the "Woman's Monitor," and contributed many articles on medical subjects, to be found in the Lancet and Observer, Toledo Medical Journal, and the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, also an article on "Tuberculosis" in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, February, 1885, which attracted considerable attention. The first tracheotomy in Hancock County, Ohio, was performed by Dr. Entrikin, in 1862, for the removal of a bean from the trachea of a little girl. On July 1, 1862, he united the severed tendo Achillis by means of a silver wire suture, performing the operation upon George Franks, of Cass township, Ohio, a perfect cure resulting. In November, 1875, he operated for ankylosis, correcting a bad de- formity of the knee in a boy of fourteen, and exhibited the case before the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society, in May, 1876. He also was early to propose overextension of oblique fractures of long bones, to allow for the creep- ing incidental to use and muscular action, calling attention to it in an article read before the Northwestern Ohio Medical Society in May, 1876. and published in the Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, in May of the same year. Dr. Entrikin married, in October, 1852, Sarah Ann, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Leslie Lyon, of Deerfield, Ohio, and had three children : Leonidas, Emmor L., and Franklin B., who graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, and practised with his father, who died at Findlay^ May 13, 1897. Physicians and Surgeons of America, I. A. son. Concord, N. 11., 1896. Portrait. Eskridge, Jeremiah Thomas (1 848- 1 902 ) . Jeremiah Thomas Eskridge, alienist, the son of Jeremiah and Mary Marvel Eskridge, was born June 1, 1848, in Sussex County, Dela- ware. His family was founded in America by Judge George Eskridge, a native of Scot- land, who came to America in 1660 as judge of the King's Bench in Virginia. Dr. Eskridge, when a boy, worked on a farm, attending school until fifteen, when he began teaching in the schools of his native county. With the money gained he entered at eighteen the Classical Institute at Laurel, Delaware. He entered the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, in 1872, and took his M. D. there in 1875. Dr. Eskridge w'as president of the Phila- delphia Northern Medical Society ; a director of the Philadelphia County Medical Society; a member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia ; the American Neurological As- sociation, and the New York Medico-Legal Society. Immediately after graduation, he practised in Philadelphia, for a time acting as assistant demonstrator of anatomy in Jefferson Medi- cal College, and physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary. In 1879 he was appointed lec- turer on physical diagnosis at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, and attending physician to St. Mary's Hospital. He was elected in 1880 attending physician to Jefferson Medical College Hospital ; in 1882 neurologist to the Howard Hospital, and in 1883 post-graduate instructor in mental and nervous diseases in Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Eskridge's health broke down in 1883, and in 1884 he went west on account of tuberculosis of the lungs, and settled in Colo- rado Springs, where he spent four years ; in 1888 he removed to Denver, where he again practised. In 1889 he was appointed neurolo- gist and alienist to the Arapahoe County and St. Luke's Hospitals, and the next year began giving a course of lectures on the diseases of the nervous system, in the University of Colorado. In 1892 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty of the same institution, and professor of nervous diseases and medical jurisprudence, but in 1897 he resigned, sever- ing all connections with the college. In 1895 he was appointed commissioner of the State Insane Asylum, and from 1895 to 1898 was president of the board. Eskridge's master mind was housed in a body all too frail to endure the work he had mapped out for himself. The systematic man- ner in which he studied cases, or applied his reasoning powers to abstruse problems of diagnosis, illustrated the whole life manner and method. The courts often desired his opinion, and sought it privately in many cases when attorneys had failed to put him on the witness stand. A close student of medical literature, and a prolific contributor to its most difficult branch, he yet found time, in spite of a busy life, to range the broader fields of general literature. In 1876 Eskridge married Jane Grey, who