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LATIMER 682 LAWRENCE first two years of the war he and his men were conspicuous for their bravery. He ruled his men through their devotion to him. About the latter part of 1862 he was commissioned surgeon in the army, and as such served until the close of the war. He married, in 1853, Anna Turner. They had three children, none of whom survived their father. He suffered for several years from organic disease of the heart, of which he died on May 5, 1903. His wit was proverbial and he was noted as a toastmaster and as a writer of humorous sketches and poetry, and his professional papers are scholarly and full of thought, though not numerous. The title of two are : "Report on the Advances in Surgery"; "Transactions of Medical Society of Virginia," 1885; "A Neglected Medical Function"; "Presidential Address," ibid., 1892. Robert M. Slaughter. Trans. Med. Soc. of Va., 1903. Latimer, Henry (1752-1819) Henry Latimer, army surgeon, was born at Newport, Delaware, April 24, 1752, and gradu- ated A. B. from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1770 and A. M. in 1773, completing his medical education at Edinburgh Univer- sity, but did not take a degree. He settled at Wilmington, Delaware, but on war break- ing out was appointed hospital surgeon and physician. In 1777 he was appointed surgeon of the flying hospital with Dr. James Tilton (q. v.). He was honorably mentioned by Gen. Wash- ington during the war, and in 1813 appointed surgeon-general of the army and discharged in 1815. He was a member of the State Medical So- ciety from its organization, and at one time its president. As a surgeon in the Continental Army he won distinction and afterwards both as physi- cian and surgeon was considered a man ot ability and of high character. He gave up practice in 1794, when he was a member of the State legislature, 1793-95. He was a United States Senator, 1795-1801. He married early in life, and had five chil- dren, and died at Philadelphia, December 19. Hannah M. Thompson. Historical Encyclop. of Delaware, 1852. Latimer, Thomas Sargent (1839-1906) Latimer was born at Savannah, Georgia, June 17, 1839. Having received a literary training at the Sherwood Academy, York, Pennsyl- vania, he entered the medical school of the University of Maryland, and graduated M. D. in 1861 and soon after went south and entered the Confederate Army as private, but was soon appointed assistant surgeon, later full surgeon, and medical purveyor of the army of Northern Virginia. The war having closed, he remained at Richmond one year, and in 1866 was appointed resident physician to the Baltimore Infirmary, a position he held two years and then began private practice. Among other appointments he was professor of anatomy in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery ; in 1873 held the chair of surgery, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; and was appointed, in 1876, to the chair of phy- siolog}' and diseases of children, and in 1883 professor of the principles and practice of medicine. He was president of the Baltimore Medical Association, 1872-73, of the Clinical Society of Maryland, 1880-81, of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1884-85, and for many years he held the same office in the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. With E. Lloyd Howard he edited the Baltimore Medical Journal in 1870- 71. In 1873 he was the editor of the Physi- cian and Surgeon, and was a frequent con- tributor to the journal literature and wrote sections in Harris' "Principles and Practice of Dentisti-y" and in Loomis' "Text-book of Medicine." Among his most valuable articles are those on alcoholism, actinomycosis and diseases of children. He died May 16, 1906, from Bright's Disease. He knew that his case was hopeless several years before the end, but he stuck to his work until the last year of his life. Then with that fine sensibility which characterized him, he ofifered his resignation, but his faculty refused to accept it, and he re- mained in office until his death. Eugene F. Cordell. Medical Annals of Maryland, E. F. Cordell, 1903, and sketch by his colleague, W. R. Stokes, in Old Maryland, Jan., 1908, vol. iv. No. 1. There are portraits at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and at the University of Mary- land, Baltimore. Lawrence, Jason Valentine O'Brien (1791- 1823) Lawrence spent six years" in study at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his M. D. degree in 1815, returning at once to New Orleans, and beginning the practice of medicine with Dr. Flood, his step-father. Dur- ing his study at the University of Pennsyl- vania, he had acquired a taste for the more scientific aspects of medicine, which caused him, three vears after his return, to sacrifice