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LUSK 722 LUTZ stetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in tlie Bellcvne Hospital Medical College, a position which he held until his death. The professorship of physiology at Harvard was offered to him the day after he had completed these arrangements. By this contingency New York, instead of Boston, became his place of residence. He always stated that this experi- ence was illustrative of a man's fate being outside his choice and of success being de- pendent upon an ability to do well whatever offered in life. While teaching physiology he engaged in research work concerning the nature of the glycogenic function of the liver. His book, the "Science and Art of Midwifery," was is- sued in its first edition in 1882. It passed through four editions and was translated into French, Italian, Spanish and, by order of the British authorities in Egypt, into Arabic. Play- fair acknowledged it as the only rival to his own book on obstetrics. Dr. Lusk attributed its success to the fact that for the first time in a text-book printed in the English language the attempt was made to explain the phenom- ena of gestation and labor in accordance with physiological laws. Before the book was is- sued Dr. Barker caused the publishers anxiety by stating to them his belief that it was too ambitious an undertaking for so young a man. This is only a characteristic judgment of an older generation upon a younger one. Dr. Lusk was an inveterate reader and maintained a knowledge of the medical advances through- out the world. Thus, after reading of the successful mode of operation of Sanger, he performed in 1887 the second successful op- eration of Caesarean section in New York City, saving the lives of both mother and child, the first having been done in the year 1838. Yale University gave him the degree of LL. D. ; he was president of the American Gynecological Society ; vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine ; honorary fellow of the obstetrical societies of London and of Edinburgh ; fellow of the Paris Acad- emy of Medicine ; and corresponding fellow of the obstetrical societies of Paris and of Leipzig. In a memorial address given before the New York County Medical Association short- ly after his death in 1897, Dr. Austin Flint (the physiologist) said: "No eulogy of mine can add to the nobly earned and well deserved reputation of Dr. Lusk; but I esteem it a precious privilege to pay this tribute to his memory, which lives in the hearts of his thou- sands of pupils and tens of thousands of readers. He was a true and reliable friend and had no enmities, a most accomplished phy- sician, an original thinker and observer, a laborious and successful investigator, and a gentleman in the highest sense of the word." Five children were born after his first mar- riage, of whom survived Graham Lusk, pro- fessor of physiology at the Cornell Medical College; Mary E. Lusk (Mrs. Cleveland Mof- fett) ; William C. Lusk, professor of clinical surgery at the University and Bellevue Hos- pital Medical School ; and Anna H. Lusk. In 1876 he married Mrs. Matilda Thorn and a daughter by this marriage, Alice Lusk, mar- ried J. Clarence Webster, professor of ob- stetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. Graham Lusk. War Letters of William Thompson Lusk, New York, privately printed, 1909. This includes the memorial addresses and has been placed in the larger libraries of the country. Lutz, Frank J. (1855-1916) Frank J. Lutz, surgeon, teacher of surgery, and medical librarian, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, May 24, 1855, son of John T. Lutz and Rosina Miller. He graduated at St. Louis University in 1873 and received his M. D. at the St. Louis Medical College in 1876. He began to practise in St. Louis and continued there throughout his life. He was surgeon- in-chief to the Alexian Brothers Hospital and to the Josephine Hospital, St. Louis; attend- ing surgeon to the Bernard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital. In 1811 he was appointed professor of surgery in the Medical Depart- ment of Washington University; other teach- ing positions held were : Instructor in clini- cal surgery, and later professor of surgery in St. Louis University ; professor of clinical pathology in Beaumont Hospital Medical Col- lege. He was a fellow of the American Medical Association, and in 1903 a member of the House of Delegates, and since 1910 a trustee of the Association. He had been president of the Missouri State Medical Association and was chairman of the Judicial Council of the Association from its organization in 1903. Dr. Lutz was librarian of the St. Louis Med- ical Library from its beginning and his work of building up the Library (now the library of the St. Louis Medical Society) is of last- ing value ; at the meeting of the Society Jan- uary 29, 1916, the members presented a life size bronze medallion to the Society and Dr. Amand Ravold paid "an eloquent tribute to the untiring and unselfish devotion of Dr. Lutz as librarian." In 1884 he married May Silver, of Mexico,