who fought in that fearful death-gorge were not mentioned. "Because," was the proud reply, "it is impossible for any Greek ever to forget them." In such high and lasting honor will be

held all those Southern heroes who fell at Gettysburg.

The corps of surgeons stood ready, as always, to perform their allotted part; but they were not permitted to do so by the Federal commander. General Lee sent more than one flag of truce asking for the privilege of looking after his dead and wounded lying on the battlefield, but it was denied him. General Meade was evidently not in a conciliatory or cheerful state of mind upon his negative victory. If General Lee in his bruised condition was forced to go, General Meade was in no condition to follow.

Immediately after the battle General Lee wrote to General Pickett: "No one grieves more than I do at the loss suffered by your noble division in the recent conflict, or honors it more for its bravery and gallantry. It will afford me satisfaction to do all in my power to recruit its diminished ranks."

This battle was the beginning of our descent to Avernus; but we had yet to attain the Stygean shades of subjection by the most rugged path.

Coming to you as a Southern brother and a professional confrére, I wish, in conclusion, to speak of the work of national reconciliation. I wish to speak of the true relations which should exist between the citizens of all the States of the necessity of eliminating every vestige of local jealousy and sectional prejudice from the Republic, and of the vital importance of promoting fraternal feelings. We are all children of the same country, and have an equal share in the same heritage. In the earnest plea I make for National Reconstruction, I need offer no apology, being, as I am, a Southerner in every fiber of my body, a Democrat in every sentiment of my soul, and a Virginian in every impulse of my heart. But I speak for no party, I speak for a common brotherhood as proud of the title of an American freeman as the old Roman was of his birthright, when standing on the Palatine Hill, close by the yellow Tiber, he thanked the gods he worshiped that he was a Roman citizen. The Union Esto perpetua!

Obituary.

DR. JOHN R. BUIST, OF NASHVILLE, TENN. DISTINGUISHED as citizen and soldier, surgeon and physician, attaining an age of more than threescore and ten, leaving as a rich heritage a life well spent and full of good deeds, Dr. John Robinson Buist died at his residence in this city, 213 Eighth Ave., N., on Tuesday morning, Oct. 24, 1905. He had been in bad health for some weeks, and had recently returned from Rochester, Minn., where he underwent an operation for rectal carcinoma by the Drs. Mayo, which from the nature of the case was unsuccessful. The end came quietly and peacefully, and just prior to his death he contributed a very valuable paper on "Purification of Our Water Supply," which was submitted to the city Board of Health, of which he was a member, on the day preceding his death.

Dr. Buist was a South Carolinian by birth, Charleston being the city in which he first saw the light of day, on Feb. 13, 1834. His grandfather, George Buist, D. D., was a native of Scotland, and came to America in the latter part of the eighteenth century to fill a Presbyterian pulpit at Charleston. He married Mary Somers, of English parentage. Four sons resulted from that union, one of whom, Edward T. Buist, father of the subject of this sketch, was likewise a Presbyterian preacher, and married Margaret Robinson, daughter of a Charleston cotton planter.

Dr. Buist's boyhood was passed on a farm in one of the mountain counties of South Carolina, and his early education was obtained from his father. He graduated at the South Carolina College, and entered the office of Dr. J. D. Cain at Charleston, S. C., to begin the study of medicine. In 1856 he left for New York City, where he entered upon a course of study under Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas. He took an M. D. degree at the University of the City of New York in 1857. Immediately following he served a full term as interne in the famous Bellevue Hospital

at New York. Following this he completed his medical studies in Europe.

On his return to the United States, in the winter of 1859-60, Dr. Buist took up his residence in Nashville, and entered here into the practice of his profession. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted as a private in the famous Rock City Guards. When Maney's First Tennessee Regiment was organized, with Col. George Maney at its head, Dr. Buist was chosen as assistant surgeon, and was promoted to the rank of Surgeon in the spring of 1862. He remained with the famous regiment throughout *the war, facing the leaden hail of the messengers of death on the battlefield of Perryville and other famous fields. Most of his time was devoted to active field duty; some of it in hospital service. As brigade surgeon he passed through some of the most arduous campaigns of the war, and was called on to do most of the operating for Cheatham's Division.

While in charge of a part of the wounded of Hood's army, after the battle of Nashville, in December, 1864, he was captured. Two months later he was released and rejoined the Confederate army in North Carolina. He was under Gen. Joseph E. John

ston when the latter surrendered at Greensboro, N. C.

He was married in 1867 to Laura, daughter of Gen. W. W. Woodfolk, who died about fifteen years ago. Three children resulted from the union, but two died in early infancy. He is now survived by his son, Dr. William E. Buist, of Nashville, Tenn.

In the death of Dr. Buist, Nashville and the community at large will suffer a distinct loss. For many years the deceased had been one of the foremost practitioners of his chosen profession in this section of the country, and his able and generous service to the municipality as a member of the City Board of Health, his earnest, painstaking, and conscientious labors for the advancement of the public weal and health, made him invaluable, and one to whom the public could well lay claim as its benefactor.

Dr. Buist was an active member of Frank Cheatham Bivouac. and during the last reunion here was Chairman of the Parade Committee, which responsibility he filled in a most efficient man

ner.

He was a general practitioner, including in his branches surgery, gynecology, and obstetrics. For a while he was Professor of Surgery at Sewanee. He was a member of the Edinburgh Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, the Medical Association of Tennessee, the Nashville Academy of Medicine, being at one time its President, and the Alumni Association of Bellevue Hospital.

The funeral services were held at Christ Church, Rev. F. F. Reese, the Rector, officiating, a large congregation, embracing a number of the leading citizens and a few of his old comrades, being present. The Ritual of the Bivouac was read by the Commander, and responses were made by the members of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, standing around the bier, at the close of the beautiful Episcopal funeral services, and the remains were interred at Mt. Olivet on the afternoon following his death.

DR. JOHN A. OCHTERLONY, of Louisville, Ky., died on October 9, at the age of sixty-seven years. He was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1861. Dr. Ochterlony was Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the University of Louisville, and was knighted several years ago by King Oscar of Sweden and by Pope Leo XIII.

DR. P. EDWARD ANDERSON, of Rodophil, Va., died July 24, aged sixty-seven years, in Richmond, where, owing to ill health, he had resided during the past few months for the purpose of treatment. Dr. Anderson graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in 1859. During the first years of the Civil War he served as a trooper in the Third Virginia Cavalry, though later he was given duty in the Medical Department. He practiced medicine the greater portion of his life in Amelia County, where he was highly esteemed. He joined the Medical Society of Virginia at its last session. Three daughters, one of whom is married, survive him.-Va. Med. Semi-Monthly, Aug. 11, 1905.

DR. O. B. HICKLIN died at his home in New London, Mo., on June 28. He was born near Madisonville, Mo., Sept. 24, 1833, and was educated in the common schools of his native State. He was graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa, in 1876, and practiced in Missouri during his entire professional life. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army under General Price.-N. Y. Med. Record, August, 1905.

Editorial.

THERE ARE MORE THINGS TWIXT HEAVEN AND EARTH THAN DREAMED OF IN THY PHILOSOPHY, HORATIO!

THE leading editorial in our most valued exchange, the N. Y. Medical Record, Oct. 21, 1905, on "The Therapeutics of Sunlight" is of more than passing interest in these days of new remedies and new developments in medicine and surgery, and suggests a return to, or a revival of, some of the very old but most valuable remedial measures that have been permitted to pass into "innocuous desuetude" so long relegated to the past and laid aside that the memory of man, or his delving in the ashes and dust of the centuries, will find it difficult to bring them again to light. We give in full the editorial, which is as follows:

"Physical methods have come to occupy an important position in therapeutics, and perhaps the most notable development in this field during the last decade is concerned with the application of light for the cure. of a variety of pathological processes. It is really important that the physician keep in touch with the advances in this field, for some of them have already been exploited and it must be admitted with considerable success, by the nature healers and other irregular practitioners. Various sources of light have been employed, but it has been found that sunlight is the most intense of all. Its efficiency is affected, however, by the state of the atmosphere, particularly by its humidity, for the latter greatly retards the chemical rays, though it has little effect on those of a thermal nature. It is quite evident, therefore, that a high altitude and a clear, dry climate constitute very important factors in the application of heliotherapy.

"The beneficial effects of sunlight have been known to the peoples of the earth from very early times, and we find repeated references to its