The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-01-26

department OF tine Harvard meulcal
school as chief pathologist at the new
leprosarium. Much space has been de-
voted to the appointment by the news
papers. Perhaps the best notice is the
following from the Boston Evening
Transcript, a paper which has devoted
great deal of space recently to Ha-
waiian matters. In its issue of January
| 9th the Transcript says:
THE NEW PATHoLoGIST.
Selection of DIR. Walter Remsen
Brinckerhoff, of the Harvard medical
school, for appointment as pathologist
in charge of the new hospital and lab
is to be established by the government
on the Island of Molokai of the Ha-
waiian group, is viewed by physicians
as the greatest opportunity for original
work that has fallen to one or their
profession in many years. No Ameri-
can pathOlogist has had the advantage
of the study of leprosy in the Hawaiian
Islands under conditions to be provided
by the government.
Under the direction of this young
Harvard man, the government is to
make a scientific investigation of this
disease with purpose to ascertain the
cause of leprosy and to determine if it
is possible to effect cure. This inves-
tigation is perhaps the most important
medical inquiry which the administers
ton has undertaken in the insular pos
sessions. DR.. Brinckerhoff s opportuni-
ties are therefore full of great POSSIBLE
ties, but the task he is to undertake is
equally arduous and hazardous.
Although his appointment has not
been officially announced from Wash
ington, it is known there that DIR.
Brinckerhoff has been selected; that the
place has been offered him and that he
has accepted. His appointment will
doubtless be officially announced soon,
together with the plans the government
has made for the hospital on the Island
of Molokai. Those who have been as
ISOLATED with DR.. Brinckerhoff at the
| Harvard medical school and the Boston
city hospital assert that he is the most
competent man they know of who could
have been selected for this difficult and
responsible task. Young, patient, per
sistent, enthusiastic, he is described as
a born investigator, to whom his profes
sion represents all ambitions, hopes and
desires.
DR.. Brinckerhoff was born in New
York July 4, 1874, the son of p. Rem
sen Brinckerhoff, and was educated in
| private schools in New York city, and
in Chicago prepared for Harvard, which
he entered with the class of 1917, being
a student at the Lawrence Scientific
| School. He was an athlete in college
and was member of the Harvard
Cycle Association. He received his de-
gree of NJ. d. from the Harvard medi
cal school in 1901, and began his hos
pital service at the Boston City Hos
pital, where he was house officer, then
second and first assistant in the Patio
logical laboratory. Upon completing
his service at the hospital, DR.. Brinck
erhoff went to the Harvard medical
school as an assistant to DR.. William T.
Councilman, head of the department of
pathology. From 1903 to 1905 he held
the place of assistant, and last year
was made an instructor. He has given
much time to the study of tho causes
and cure of smallpox, and in January
1904, when further investigation OF
smallpox was decided upon by the
Harvard medical school, DR.. Brincker
hoff was sent to Manila. He remained
there more than year gathering ma
terial from observation, autopsies ant
Investigations in the pathological lab
oratory of the Marine Hospital. He re-
turned TO Boston last June and re
sumed his position in the pathological
department of the Harvard medica
school.
TO PASTURES NEW.
News of T. McCants Stewart as
globe trotter has been heard through
prominent Maine man who was fellow