New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-05

Philadelphia. Jan i-Dr. ). Weir
Mitchell, author end physician. died at
his home here al O'Clock from influenza.
He was in his eighty-fourth year.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday.
Or. Mitchell was stricken last MondaT
with What was at first thought TO be a
mild attack o; grip Members OF his inn
mediate family were with him during his
last hours.
Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell author OF
Hugh Wynne" and many other popular
novels was "A native OF Philadelphia. of
which he was lifelong resident. He was
the son of an eminent physician Of that
city. and born on February -. 1880. His
education was obtained in public schools
and at the University of Pennsylvania
and the jefferson Medical College. where
he took his degree OF Doctor OF Medicine
in 1850. After devoting himself to general
practice fer several years he turned his
attention to diseases of the nervous sys-
TEN and elaborated n system OF rest
treatment" which became known under
his name. and the use Of which, with
various notifications, extended all over
the world.
lie gave considerable attention to the
chemical composition and physiological &C
ton OF the venom Of snakes. and pub
lished Researches Upon the Venom of
RattIesnakes" i'm the Smithsonian Con-
tributions TO knowledge" in 1860.
In the Civil War DR.. Mitchell was as
-, 81 at Hos
pital for Nervous Diseases. He contrib
uted much TO medical literature, being the
author Of 125 essays and monographs on
toxicology. comparative physiology and
clinical medicine.
He also published these books on medi-
cal TOPICS Injuries To the Nerves ana
Their Consequences" Wear and Tear
or. Hints for the Overworked,' Fat anc
Blood and How 20 Make Them" Lectures
on Diseases Of the Nervous System. Kspe-
cially in Women" "A Doctors Century.
Doctor and Patient" Clinical Lectures
on Nervous Diseases" and Some Memo
randa in Regard TO William Harvey. NJ
D."
At the time Of the Civil War DR.. Mitch
ell first turned his attention TO fiction and
general literature. in which he became a
prolific writer. He wrote The Children
Hour" for the great fair Of the Sanitary
Commission in Philadelphia in 1864. III
1867 this was followed by children
book. The Wonderful Stories of Fuz'
Buz. the Fly. and Mother Grabem. this
Spider"
II was not until 1850 that DR.. Mitchell
began to publish novels, "Hephzibaf
Guinness" thee and Thou" and -
Draft on the Bank of SPAIN appearing IL
that year. I'm War Time appeared II
1885. Roland Blake" in 1886, Far II
the Forest" In 1889. characteristics" ir
1892 and when All the Woods Are
Green" IN 1894. In the mean time he nae
published several volumes of poetry
"Masaue and other Poems cup oil
Youth and Other Poems Psalm oil
Death" and THE Mother and Other
Poems" In 1897 appeared Hugh Wynne
Free Quaker" in two volumes, when l.
ranked among the best stories or the
Revolution. After 1t came The "A
ventures OF Francois" in 1898, "Charac
teris;ics" in 1899, "Dr. North and HIS
Friends" in 1900. circumstance in 1901
and Constance Trescot' in 1903.
His novels deal with different historica
and contemporary types of character and
are DISTINGUISHED from ordinary fiction by
more insistence on psychological and path
illogical analysis.
some of the poems of DR. Mitchell have
been regarded as of high rank, and MS
"To q Magnolia Flower and others are
I'm Stedman's American Anthology" HE
drama in verse, The Masque. was pre-
scented on the stage by Wilson Barrett
lie read in public from his dramatic
noem. Francis Drake
Dr Mitchell was member Of the Ma
tional Academy of Science the britisr
Medical Association and the F'renc'
Academy OF Medicine and was Twice
president Of the Philadelphia College OF
Surgeons. lie received the degree Of
Ill. d. from Harvard. Edinburgh ano
princeton. and NJ. d. Honorary cause
from the University OF Bologne. lilo "a'
, trustee Of the Carnegie Institution.
Dr Mitchell married Miss Mary Middle
ron Flwyn I'm 1855. who died in 1864, leav'
CadwaIader, who bore him one daughter
one of his sons. John Is. Mitchell oe
came a physician. and the other Lansuor
Elwyn Mitchell. lawyer, poet ana pia!
wright. in whose dramatization OF van
ity Fair" as Becky Sharp Mrs. t1ske sp
peared.
Dr. Mitchell spent his summers on th'
coast o. Maine and in the Restigouch'
region in Canada. When Or. Mitchell
hogan his literary work he consulted DIR
oliver Wendell Holmes. who advised hin
IN wait until he was secure in his medi
cal position before devoting himself Sc
riousIv to literature so II was not unit
he was fifty years old that he embarked
on a career In letters.