The sun., 1907-12-01
on. GEO. y. SHRADY DEAD.
One Of Gen. Grants Physicians and Founder
DT tho "NHodicAI Record"

One Of Gen. Grants Physicians and Founder
OG tho medical Record"
DR.. George +. Shrady, who had been
III OF pyemia at his home. the Renais-
sance. Sl2 Fifth avenue. died at 0:S6 o'clock
last night. At his bedside were his wife.
his sons. Coroner George +. Shrady. Jr,.
Henry Merwin Shrady. a sculptor. and
Charles Douglas Shrady, and his daughter.
Mrs. John Fremont Ambrose His step
daughter Mrs. Edwin Gould, was away.
DIR. Shrady was taken suddenly Ill two
weeks ago and failed rapidly. For the
twenty-four hours preceding his death he
was unconscious. His physician. DIR. John
8. DOrning. called DIR. Bull and DIR. jane
way into consultation. but they could do
nothing.
George Frederick Shrady was born in
New York January II. 1897. He was a
son Of John and Margaret (Beinhauer)
Shrady. one OF five children, all born at
1913 RivingtOn street. His paternal grand
father emigrated from Baden-Baden. Ger
many. and settled in New York city in
1885. Both his grandfathers we're soldiers
in the Revolutionary War. and his father
served in the War Of 1912. .
He took an academic course at the Free
the City of New York and entered the
College OF Physicians and Surgeons and
was graduated in 1853. His proficiency in
anatomy brought him the same year, at
Bellevue Hospital, the Wood intercollegiate
prize. In 1857 and 1858 he was resident
surgeon in the New York Hospital and
was graduated from the surgical division
OF that institution in 1859. He then entered
practice in this city.
As assistant surgeon in the army DIR.
Shrady was assigned first To duty during the
civil war at the Central Park Hospital,
New York. Later he was detailed to field
duty with the operating corps.
II was through his attendance on Gen.
Grant during the latteT's last illness that
Dr. Shrady first became known popularity.
Afterward when Emperor Frederick was
seized with an ailment similar 10 that of
which Gen. Grant had died. Sir Morell
Mackenzie. the English specialist in throat
diseases. who was attending the Emperor,
kept in communication by cable with DR.
Shrady for purposes of consultation.
After President Garfield was shot DIR.
Shrady was called into consultation by
DIR. Bliss as a surgical pathologist. In
1880. when kenimler was put to death by
electricity. the first murderer to receive
capital punishment by this method, DR.
Shrady was one of the medical experts
appointed TO witness the execution. His
observations led him to condemn the
method unqualiiiedly.
DIR. Shrady was visiting surgeon to st.
FTancis's Hospital for twenty years and
consulting physician for the past six years
and served as consulting surgeon at the
New York Cancer Hospital, the Hospital
for RuptuTed and Crippled, the Columbus
Hospital, the FOrdham Home for Incur
abIes the General Memorial Hospital. the
Red Cross Hospital and the Vassar Hos
pital at POughkeepsie. Also he was physi-
clan in chief to the hospitals of the New York
Health Department and one of the man
ayers of the Hudson River State Hospital
for the Insane.
From 1861 20 1870 he was secretary of the
New York Pathological Society and presi-
dent Of that organization i'm lSS3-Sl. He
was president of the Practitioners Society
of New York and OF the American Medical
Editors Association. Other places held
by him were trIsteeship of the Hudson
River State Hospital for the Insane at
Poughkeepsie, fellow OF the American and
New York Academies of Medicine, member
of the New York State Medical Society
and various other scientific and professional
organizations He was family surgeon to
the Presbyterian Hospital.
DIR. Shrady took special pride in his edi-
torial work. Early in his professional
career he edited the American Medirci
Times.
Later he founded the Medical Record and
he remained it's editor in chief for thirty
nine years. He was the author of Pine
Ridge Papers" a series Of satiriCal and witty
tTeatiscs ON chaTlatanism among medical
practitioners.
DR. ShTady received an honorary degree
Of Master Of Arts from Yale in 1869. On
December 10. 1850, he married Mary Lewis
Of New York city. She died in 1883. On
December 10. 1898, he married Hester Ellen
Cantine. He was n member of the Metro
politan, Ardsley and Jekyll Island clubs