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ORTON 867 OTIS Corps was reorganized, the Medical Reserve Corps created, and typhoid prophylaxis recom- . mended for use in the Army. In connection with the latter, it should be stated that Gen- eral O'Reilly was president of the board that recommended its adoption. In 1903 General O'Reilly collaborated with Major William C. Borden in a monograph on military surgery which was published in the fourth edition of Keen's "American Textbook of Surgery" (Philadelphia, 1903, pp. 1286- 1307). General O'Reilly was a man of delightful charm of manner, always courteous and pos- sessed of an tmusual wit. His death was greatly mourned by his many friends. DouGL.s F. Duval. Military Surgeon, J. R. Kean, Dec, 1912. In Memoriam, F. H. Garrison, M. D., N. Y. Med. Jour., Nov., 1912, 1126. Orton, George Turner (1837-1901) Born in Guelph, Ontario, January 19, 1837, he was the son of Dr. Henry Orton, a pioneer of Western Ontario and a iscion of a family of doctors, for besides his father and his grandfather, two uncles and three brothers were doctors. The eldest brother was surgeon- major in the British Army, serving in the Crimean War. and the Indian Mutiny. After receiving his early education in the Guelph public schools he was 'sent to Tr'mity College, Dubhn, but completed his course at St. Andrew's University, Scotland, where he took his M. D. in 1860, and in 1861 he was elected member of the Royal College of Sur- geons, England. After completing his medical course. Dr. Orton returned to Canada and began to prac- tise at Fergus, Ontario, in 1862, where he re- mained till 1879, when he removed to Winni- peg, Manitoba. In Fergus, he soon built up one of the largest practices in the province, and was besides surgeon to the Thirtieth Bat- talion, Wellington Rifles, and for three years Reeve of the town. His wide influence as a physician undoubtedly made his entrance into political life easier than it would otherwise have been, but his- ability as a statesman re- tained him there. His interest in public aff'airs, and the devel- opment of Canada in general, was such that he was elected to the House of Commons in 1874, and represented the constituency con- tinuously for fourteen years. During the Re- beUion in the Northwest Territories in 1885, he was brigade-surgeon under General Middle- ton and was present at the engagements of Fish Creek and Batouche. On his return to the House of Commons at the next session he was given an enthusiastic ovation by members of both sides of the House. He married Annie Farmer in 1862, by whom he had two daughters. He died at home in Winnipeg, November 14, 1901, of pneumonia. Jasper Halpenny. Otis, Fessenden Nott (182S'900) Fessenden Nott Otis, a son of Oran Gray and Lucy Kingman Otis, was born in Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York, May 6, 1825. His family came from England to Hingham, Massachusetts, late in the seventeenth century, and his immediate ancestors settled in Ballston before the Revolution. He was first a pupil at the local public schools, then began to study medicine at the New York University in 1848, finishing at the New York Medical School, where he received his degree in 1852. After serving as interne at the Charity- Hospital, New York, he became a surgeon to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and lived in Panama. He remained in the steamship company's employ until 1859; in 1860 he settled in New York, and took up general practice. He was first lecturer and in 1871 professor of venereal and genito-urinary diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His prin- cipal writings were upon genito-urinary dis- ease, although he contributed some well-known articles on syphilis. His volume of six hun- dred pages, entitled "Practical Lessons on Syphilis and Genito-urinary Diseases," 1883, was an exhaustive work on the subject. He was the inventor of the Otis Urethro- meter and the Otis Dilating Urethrotome. He was a member of the New York State and County Medical societies and the New York Academy of Medicine. In 1859 he married Frances H., daughter of Apollos Cooke, of Catskill, New York. During the last years of his life ill health compelled him to abandon active practice, and he died in New Orleans, May 26, 1900. J. MC F. WiNFIELD. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1900, vol. cxlii. Brit. Med. .Tour., Lond., 1900, vol i Med. Rec., N. Y., 1990, vol. Ivii. Otis, George Alexander (1830-1881) George Alexander Otis, surgeon and brevet lieutenant-colonel. United States Army, cura- tor of the Army Medical Museum, and editor of the surgical volumes of the "Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion." died at Washington, D. C, February 23, 1881, at the comparatively early age of fifty years. His great-grandfather, Ephraim Otis, was a