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NOYES 858 O'CALLAGHAN Ear Infirmary, 1859 to 1864, surgeon from 1864 to 1900, .and executive surgeon from 1875 to 1893; professor of ophthalmology and otology in Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1868; one of the founders of the American Ophthalmological Society in 1864 and presi- dent from 1878 to 1884. His special ability- lay in his fine teaching powers and his keen clinical observation, to which his very numer- ous publications from 1860 to 1898 attest. He was among the first in this country to use cocaine as a local anesthetic in ophthalmic surgery. His text-book on diseases of the eye, published in 1890 (second edition in 1894), is one of the best. He died at Mount Wash- ington, November 12, 1900. Harry Friedenwald. Trans. .rn. Oph. Soc vol. ix. Trans. Rhode Island Med. Soc. 1896, vol. v. Knapp's Archives of Ophthalmology, vol. xxv. Biography of Eminent Amer. Physicians and Sur- geons, R. French Stone, 1894. Med. News, 1900, vol. Ixxvii. Med. Record, N. Y., 1900, vol. Iviii. Noyes, James Fanning (1817-1896) James F. Noyes was born August 2, 1817, on a farm near Kingston, Rhode Island, a direct descendant of the Rev. James Noyes, Puritan and Nonconformist, who emigrated from England and settled in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1634. Dr. Noyes went as a boy to the private schools near his home, ill health preventing his taking a college course. In 1842 he began to study medicine with D:. Joseph F. Potter, of Waterville, Maine, and in 1844 took a course of lectures at Harvar'i Medical School; and in 1845 one at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating M. D. in 1846. After some post-graduate work in New York City, Dr. Noyei was appointed assistant physician in the United States Alarine Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 1849 Noyes began active work at Waterville, Maine, where he soon secured a large practice. In 1851 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, to form a partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. Potter. The year 1855 was spent in Europe studying ophthalmology at Berlin, with A. von Graefe and Richard Liebreich. In 1859 he again returned to Europe and studied in Paris with Desmarres and Sichel. In 1863 he settled in Detroit, where he remained till his retire- ment in 1886, being the second regular phy- sician to practise ophthalmology and otology in Michigan. He was a founder of the Detroit Academy of Medicine, president in 1873 ; mem- ber of the Michigan State Medical Society; of the American Ophthalmological Society and the American Otological Society. He was honorary member of the Texas State Medical Society; member of the Ohio State Medical Society; of the Rhode Island State Medical Society; and of the Alaine Medical Society. In 1869 he was elected professor of ophthal- mology and otology in Detroit Medical Col- lege, a position held for ten years. In 1872 he was president of the Detroit Academy of Medicine. From 1866 to 1880 he was ophthal- mic and aural surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, Detroit ; and from 1863 to 1886, ophthalmic and aural surgeon to Harper Hospital, Detroit; from its foundation to 1886 he was ophthalmic and aural surgeon to the Detroit Woman's Hospital. He took great interest in the Oak Grove Insane Asylum at Flint, Michigan, and erected an amusement building known as "Noyes Hall." Under a gruff exterior. Dr. Noyes carried a warm and sympathetic heart. If a patient gave instant attention and unquestioned obedience, Dr. Noyes was a most delightful doctor. To others he gave such attention as would inculcate proper respect for the profession. In general practice Dr. Noyes had a reputation for daring and skilful surgery and till his death nothing held so mucn interest for him as a well performed surgical operation. He was among the first to treat strabismus by the tucking method. His first operation was done March 3, 1874, and pub- lished in the "Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society," p. 274. It differed from the modern tucking in that the tendon was divided and the ends sufficiently over- lapped to correct the deformity and then stitched together. Dr. J. F. Noyes never married. He died m Providence, Rhode Island, February 16, 1896, frotn "heart failure." He made many contributions on ophthal- mological subjects to the Detroit Review of Mcdieine and Pharmacy and to the Transac- tions of the Michigan State Medical Society and other publications. Leartus Connor. Phys. and Surg, of U. S., W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Trans. Mich. State Med. Soc, 1896. Memorial Remarks. James Fanning Noyes, Jour. .mer. Med. Asso., May 2, 1896. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey (1797-1880) As a rule it is not a difficult matter to trace the life work of one who has devoted the greater part of his life to historical writings, but not so with the late Dr. O'Callaghan, the historian of Dutch Colonial New York; for some reason or other very little is said in relation to him in any of the well-known books on biography, except as found in the general encyclopedias.