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Fig. 5.-Wright Post, Consultant Surgeon to the New York Eye Infirmair, 1820-1828. Fig. 6.--Samuiel BorIowe, Consuiltanlt Stirgeon to the New York E}ye Infirm ary. Fig. 7.-The New York Eye an(d Ear Infirnmary in 1865. Fig. 8. -Edward Delafield in oict age.
SAMUELS: Edward Delafield: A Sketch whose couplet to the memory of Joseph Rodman Drake, "None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise," has brought comfort to the hearts of thousands in recalling some dear departed friend. The records of the War Department show that toward the end of the war Delafield served as surgeon's mate and afterward as surgeon in Major James T. Leonard's Battalion of "Sea Fencibles," New York Militia, until March 1, 1815. Peace had been signed in Paris on Christmas Day, 1814, but the news did not reach these shores until February 4, 1815. The rejoicing in the city was unbounded, for not only had its commerce suffered in this second war with England, but prior to this Napoleon's decrees of Berlin and Milan and Jefferson's Embargo Act had caused its ships to be held in port and to rot at the wharves. On the basis of his war record the first President of this Society was granted 160 acres of bounty land in 1855 and a pension in 1872. After receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York he served the customary year at New York Hospital as house physician. In the summer of 1816 he sailed for London to complete his studies abroad. Among his classmates at the College of Physicians and Surgeons was John Kearny Rodgers, whose surgical achievements in years to come were destined to be the pride and boast of the surgical arena of New York Hospital, and of whom Delafield wrote: "Living and laboring together in a common cause, a friendship begun in student days, under the same masters, was cemented in a bond which death alone dissolved." Rodgers preceded him to London, where again they lived and studied together. They were pupils of Haighton, Cline, Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Lawrence, and Travers, whose names recall the glory of the great medical schools of St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholomew's hospitals during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Under the guidance of so illustrious a 79
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