Evening star., 1900-01-06

from the cnly Photograph in possession of the
family.
rau un the steps keaChing the landing
he CONF i.laineI Of difficulty in breathing. and
not feeling better Immediately physicians
We're summoned. DR.. Hammond grew rap
idly worse, however, and died about o
O'Clock. He leaves a widow. who was his
second wife. a son. DIR. Graeme Hammond
and Il daughter, the MarquiSe Lanza he
two latter residing in New York.
A Remarkable Career.
Dr. Hammond's career was a remarkable
one, though for a Time his life was clouded
with dismissal from the United States
army. He was native of Annapolis. Nd
where he was born August Is 1s2S his
father being DR.. John W Hammond. and
his mother a niece of William Pinkney
United States Senator and at one time min
lister to England. In 1885 his father re-
moved to Harrisburg, Pa, and here the boy
received his early education. Showing
great prediction for his fathers profess
sion he went to the University of New
ork. where he studied medicine and was
graduated IN lSiS, afterward attending cljn-
ical classes at the Pennsylvania Hos,itaI.
He was appointed an assistant surgeon
IN the army in 1919. and after three Years
service went to Europe. Returning he
served in the west for eleven wears and
made special study of physiological chem
1stry, writing a number Of essays on the
subject which at the time were considered
valuable additions to medical literature and
We're reprinted in England and translated
into German and French. One OF these
works. 'Albumen Starch and Gum as
Food. was awarded first prize by the
American Medical Association A collec-
ton Of fauna made by him while on the
frontier was presented to the Smithsonian
institute and can be still seen there, as
well az another at the Philadelphia Acad-
elny of Natural Sciences.
Made Surgeon General of the Army.
DIR. Hammond resigned his commission in
1861 to occupy the chair Of anatomy and
physiology in the University Of Maryland
but six months later, when the civil war
broke out, he returned to the army as an
assistant surgeon. His advancement was
rapid because he introduced SO many re-
forms in the camp and field hospitals that
he was made surgeon general of the army
In 1862 With the rank of brigadier general.
stopped in His Career.
He was the originator of the Ambulance
Corps and founded the Army Medical Mu-
scum and was attracting the attention Of
the world by his reforms when, In 1869, he
was accused of irregularities in the award
ing Of liquor contracts. He was tried by
cOurt-nartial and in 1864 was dismissed
from the army. He went at once to New
of his profession. making a speciality of
diseases of the nerves. From 1851 to 1873
he was professor of diseases of the mind
and nervous system in the Bellevue Medical
Hospital, and was then elected to a similar
chair in the University of New York where
he remained until 1882, when, with some
others, he founded the New York Post
Graduate Medical School. and became a
lecturer there.
During this time he wrote a number of
books among which We're physiological
Memoirs, "A Treatise on Hygiene"
"Wakefulness, Insanity in Its Medico-
Lega! Relations and novel, Robert Sc
verne" Some of his TRANSACTIONS have also
been noted in the profession. He was one
of the originators of the New York Medi-
cal journal. and founded and edited the
Quarterly Journal Of Physiological Medi-
cine and Medical Jurisprudence
RestOred and Placed on Retired List.
In the year 1878 DIR. Hammond sought
and received vindication OF his record at
the hands of Congress. A bill authorizing
the President to review the proceedings OF
the court-martial, and. If justice demand
ed. to reinstate DR.. Hammond, was passed
to the House unanimously and by the SEN
ate with but one dissenting vote. This bill
was approved by the President in 1879, and
DR.. Hammond was restored to his place on
the army rolls as brigadier general and
surgeon general on the retired list.
Funeral Monday.
The funeral will take place Monday morn
ing at IL o'clock, services being held at the
late residence of the deceased, No 2sOC
18th street northwest, Columbia Heights
Full military honors will be paid to the re-
mains and the fnterment will be at Airing.
ton cemetery. There will be six honorary
pallbearers, who will be selected late TODAY.
Horrors of Surgery.
| From the Chicago Tribune.
That poor fellow with the dislocated
| knee must be suffering terribly. never
| heard a man yell So"
He isn't making that noise. It's the
| consulting surgeons wranHlinR In the neyt