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FAYSSOUX 379 FENGER of Independence. These documents, still pre- served in Dr. Fay's handwriting, attest the confidence in which the author was held by the inhabitants. He was clerk of the Dorset Convention, which petitioned Congress to serve in the com- mon cause of the country. He was again at the Westminster Convention, which declared Vermont to be an independent state, and he was secretary of the Convention that formed the constitution of the state in 1777. Dr. Fay continued to practise all tliis lime and until 1800 in Bennington, when he removed to Charlotte, and later to Pavvlet, but returned to Bennington late in life and died there March 6, 1818. Senator Proctor discovered in 1904, in the Library of Congress, certain manuscripts re- lating to the early Vermont Conventions, and these manuscripts, all in Dr. Fay's hand- writing, he reproduced in facsimile and dis- tributed in a bound volume. This volume contains Dr. Fay's family record, and shows him to have been twice married. By his first wife, Sarah, he had seven children. His second wife was Lydia, widow of Challis Saf- ford, and had three children. Ch.rlf.s S. Caverly. Fayssoux, Peter Dotl ( 1 745- 1 795 ) . No record of the ancestry of this army sur- geon is extant, but it is known that he was born in southern France in 1745. His mother emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1746 or 1747, where the boy grew up and was educated under the care of his stepfather, James Hunter. He graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1774 or 1775. Of Dr. Fayssoux's life only a few fragments have been preserved, but these indicate a man of strong character, active!)- devoted to the cause of his adopted country, learned and skilful in medicine with high ideals for the betterment of his profession. He took an active part in the stirring events of the Revolution, and on July 13, 1778, was ap- pointed first lieutenant, South Carolina Regi- ment. He was taken prisoner at Charleston on May 12, 1780, and was sent to St. Augus- tine, Florida, where lie endured his "captivity with patience and exile with resignation. In the following year, on May 15, he received the appointment of chief physician and surgeon of hospital, southern department, a posi- tion he held until the close of the war. His public service, however, did not end with the advent of peace, for in 1786 we find him a member of the Legislature, acting "with in- dependence and firmness of character." He was also a member of the Privy Council. Dr. Fayssoux seems to have been the initia- tor of the movement to organize the Medical Society of South Carolina, for it was at his house in December, 1789, that Dr. David Ramsay (q. v.) and Dr. Alexander Barron met with him to carry out this project. He was elected the first president. He married Mrs. Ann Johnson (nee Smith) on March 29, 1777, and had six children, none of whom studied medicine. He died suddenly of apoplexy, February 2, 1795. Robert Wilson, Jr. Private Family Record. Minutes of the Med Soc. of South Carolina, 1789, also Feb. 3, 179S. Fell, Edward George (1850-1918). Edward George Fell, surgeon and inventor, was born in Chippewa, Ontario, July 10, 1850, son of James Wilkins Fell and Ann Elizabeth Hoffman. He received a high school education, then studied medicine at the University of Bufifalo, graduating in 1882; an ad eundem degree was conferred by Niagara LIniversity in 1886. From 1885 to 1895 he was professor of physiology and microscopy in the Medical De- partment of Niagara University, and was physician to the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity; from 1910 to 1916 he was surgeon to the Charity Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hos- pital, Buffalo. He was president of the Cuban .American Junta (1897-1898) ; president of the American Microscopical Society, of which he was a founder (1890). He was a member of the Royal Microscopical Society (London). He was the first inventor of a successful apparatus to produce artificial respiration in case of drowning, and asphyxiation (1887) through which thousands of lives have been saved and thoracic surgery made possible. In 1890 he invented the first chair used in elec- trical executions ; his latest invention was an apparatus to enable one to remain under water a long time without danger. Dr. Fell was married in 1872 to Annie Argo Duthie, of Buffalo; in 1912 he married Ger- trude Luella Axtell of Spokane, Washing- ton. He died at his home in Chicago, Illinois, of dilatation of the heart, July 29, 1918. Tmir. Amer. Med. .^ssoc, 1918, vol. I.xxi. 48.T. Illinois Med. .Tonr.. 1918. vol. .xxxiv, KH4. Fenger, Christian (1840-1902). Christian Fenger, Chicago's successful sur- geon and first teacher of modern pathology, was the son of Kammerraad Fritz and Matilda