New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-21
DEATH OF DR.. E. G. SEGUIN.
INTERESTING CAREER OF THE WELL
KNOW PHYSICIAN


Dr. Edward Constant seguin. the well-known
physician o. No a. West Fifleth-st.. died on
saturday last. DR. seguln was born n Paris.
france. In 1888. he was the only child OF Or.
toward .. SeSuin. whose brother. father and sew
eral relatives OF the same name were physicians.
chemists. engineers and architects Dr. Edward 0.
sesu'n devoted nearly all his ne 70 the training
AGA education % l3iotic and backward children. IN
france and In this country T. 1880 DR.. Sesuin
emi2rated TO this country with his family. and
hnelly settled In Cleveland. Ohio. There and in
Portsmouth. Ohio. Or. z. c. sezuin received good
puzzle school and high school educa;on. one year
o. this time given 20 an apprenticeship nj the
vince wright trade in Portsmouth. Circumstances
maze u impossible for him 70 go 10 college. In
lsol. then living at Mount vcrnoa this State he
began the study Of medicine with his father
Later he attended three courses Of lectures az
the College OF Physicians and Surgeons In this
city. and was graduated therefTon in the autumn
or 1857 Meanwhile. IN Nay. 1852. Dr. Scguln had
entered tho medical department Of tho Army serv-
ing for The first two months when less than nine
teen years Old. as dresser in tho hospital steam
snip OF tho United States Sanitary Corr mission IN
the Famunkey and James Rivers. IN July he was
appointed - medical cadet IN the REGULAR Army
and served two terms ia August 1871 Durins
mAch OF his time he had practically the charge
or the patients IN me wards 10 w.ich he was a.
'ached. performing all the duties OF surgeon cx-
cept the doing Of major operations. In this hard
tuoefculai phthiss in the spring ~ 1904 from the
effects OF which he did no. recover Or several
years. From September. 1854 % June 1886 he
served az Little Rock Ark as acting assistant;
surgeon and during the last two months as as
slstant surgeon. United States Volunteers From
$50 20 S DC passed through the grades Of inferno
and house physician a. the New-Yor< Hospital
then ~ Broadway ard Duare-st Early In 1866
SYMPTOMS ~ rhthiss rer1rrc6. and he applied for
"a place IN the medical department of the ARMY
By special courtesy OF the Surgeon General hc was
assigned 20 duty in New-Mexiro. ard there served
rs post surgeon AZ Forts craig and saiden In the
summer q 1853 he returned 10 Neu-vork entirely
cured. as the result showed. Of MS pulmonary
trouble
Soon after the opening Of the Connecticut Hos
pital for the Insane Or SeCUi1 vas appointed
patholoeist for the hospital which position he held
FOR about ten years TIE winter Il 1920 was
spent h. Or Segun IN Paris studying privately
under Brown-sequard. Charcoi. Ranvicr ana COR
nil This course Of study led him 70 look forward
70 making nervous diseases specially. but after
MS return 10 Nen-YorS he entered upon general
practice IN association win Or William D.arer.
IN 1876 this friendly association was severed. in
order tha. he might devote himself exclusively 70
the study and treatment Of nervous diseases. From
1911 10 1885 Or. segun was connected with the
faculty Of the College Of Physicians and Surgeons
ecturing upon diseases Of the spinal cord and upon
insanity In 1873. with the permission Of the faculty
he founded the Clinic sor Nervous Diseases. Be
tween 1850 and 1898 Or SeCuiu was in Europe
several times but resumed practice of his
specially whenever he was I'm New York
r > uin ". ~ros NAN monosrsPhs relating to
hT HYGIENE well by medicinal means. Tr
Vas o one Of The founders Of ae Amecan Nea-o
logical Society, and those. with the Ncw-Yo-k
f,athoqfi'a. society receiyoa most Of his aitsa-
American and European med cal societies
Ills health hogan 10 faH in the winter Of 1873
but in spite n loss ~ STRENGTH BE- dd not give up
professional work Until july 1876 Soon after this
time the real Of his Illness bccama apparent
on october g. 1852 occurred a lamcntabie tragedy
IN the life 81 Dr. Seguin. when HIS wife. Margaret
shot and killed her three young children and then
committed suicide Mrs. ScgUin had previously
lived happily with her husband and the finding Of
tho COroners jury declared that she suffering
~ the time %: her death from mental alteration.
Tho funeral Of Or. ScTuin Will be- held tomorrow
at his late home. No. u West Fifticth-st.. al S
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