The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-24
HALF CENTURY OF MEDICAL
PRACTICE.
DR.. Henry D. Holton Veteran in Pubic
Service.

SeIVlCe.
Brattleboros distinguished citizen,
Dr. Henry d. Holton, completed 30 years
of practice in medicine March 9. That
he still finds sufficient tasks to busy him
self is apparent from the fact that he
failed to remain at home long enough for
friends and neighbors to extend the
compliments Of the. day Many OF his
friends had arranged to observe the
occasion in a manner deemed appropriate,
but were thwarted in their plans by the
doctor leaving home ON a speaking tour
in the northern part of the State in the
capacity of Secretary of the state Board
of Health.
He began the study of medicine with
DIR. Warren of Boston, continued il with
Professor Valentine Mott in New York,
attended lectures in the medical depart
ment of the University of New York,
from which he graduated March 9, 1860
After six months service as physician
in the Williamsburg Dspensary be set
tied in Putncy. where he was in practice
seven years, and then moved to Brattle-
horo. His skill and success gave him a
wide reputation and doubtless led to his
connection with various medical and other
learned societies In 1861 he became II
member of the Connecticut River Valley
Medical Association, soon became its
secretary and later its president. He
has been president of the Vermont Medi-
cal Society. He is II member OF the
American Medical Association and Of its
judicial council, and, in 1850, was vice
president. He was sent as a delegate to
the international Medical Congress held
at Brussels in 1875, and, during his visit
to England, while then abroad, he was
made member of the British Medical
Association. He is member of the
American Public Health Association,
was treasurer nine years, and, in 1902, its
president. He was active in the organi-
cation of the Pan American Medical
! Congress and chairman of its board of
trustees and executive committee In
1901 he was made president of the
American tuberculosis Congress.
Many other societies might be mem
toned in which DR.. Holton has been
| honored with membership among them
the Continental Anti-Tuberculoss Asso-
citation of Europe, the American Academy
of Medicine. the Boston genealogical
Society, the New York Therapeutical
Society, the American Academy of Politi-
cal and Social Science, the American
Geographical Society, and the New Eng
| land Educational League.
The doctor was a commissioner for this
State to the Nicaragua Canal convention
held in New Orleans in December, 1892,
and was also commissioner of the
Columbian Exposition.
DR.. Holton was for three successive
terms of six years each member of the
board of trustees of the University of
Vermont and Agricultural College, and
for eighteen years Professor of pathology
and therapeutics in the medical depart
ment of the University. He is author of
| Pathological Tables which went to II
second edition, also of twenty-five mono
graphs and of many articles in medical
journals.
DIR. Holton has always found time to
devote to educational and political inter
ests and whatever else concerned the
welfare of his town and the State, For
IA quarter of century he was I'm efficient