time he was given the degree of A. M. by Williams college. Soon afterwards Dr. Herrick returned to Cleveland, and was employed as one of Dr. Brooks' assistants at the United States Marine hospital. In February of 1862 he decided to give his service to his country, and entered the army as assistant surgeon of the Seventeenth Ohio infantry. During some time he was in charge of general hospital number thirteen at Nashville, Tennessee, doing most valuable service and gaining an experience that has been of use to him through all after life. In December, 1862, he received a commission as surgeon, and at the battle of Chickamauga, where the hospitals of his division were in his charge, he was made a prisoner by the Confederates and sent to Richmond, where for two months he partook of the horrors of Libby prison. At the expiration of that time he was exchanged, and after a short forlough, which was spent in Cleveland, he rejoined Sherman's army at Chattanooga and took part in the famous march to the sea.

Always actuated by a desire to know more of his profession, and to explore every source of knowledge open to him, Dr. Herrick did not rest with the experience and education he had already gained, but on the close of the war went to New York City, where he attended another partial course of lectures, in order to better fit him for the labors of life. In 1865 he returned to Cleveland and became associated in partnership with his former tutor, Dr. M. L. Brooks. This continued until 1871, when it was dissolved, and from that time to the

present Dr. Herrick has practiced by himself. His standing in the medical ranks, from the day of his return from the army, was of the highest, and he long ago took a position as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Ohio. His practice has been and is of the most extensive character, and is by no means confined to the limits of Cleveland or Cuyahoga county. His success has been as marked in the field of operative surgery as in the practice of medicine, having performed the various capital operations with success, and lately in the radical cure of large and uncontrolled hernia. From 1865 until 1868 he filled the chair of professor of obstetrics, and the diseases of women and children, in Charity Hospital Medical college, and upon the reorganization of that college as the medical department of the University of Wooster, he was chosen to be professor of the principles of surgery, and at the same time lectured on hygiene. On the reorganization of the Western Reserve university, and the consolidation of its medical department with that of Wooster, Dr. Herrick continued to lecture on hygiene and on pythology, and after a time dropped the latter and devoted his instructions to gynecology and hygiene. He is also a member of the consulting staff of Charity Hospital; a member of the Northeastern Ohio Medical society; of the Cuyahoga County Medical society; of the State. Medical society, of which he was president one year; of the American Public Health association; and of the American Medical association. In the dis

cussion, and in the conduct of business, of these various associations he is an active and earnest member, while he has prepared and published a number of valuable papers on medical subjects, that have been received with marked attention and interest. Dr. Herrick also filled the government position of pension examiner through a term of nineteen years. On the inauguration of Governor Foraker, in 1886, he tendered to Dr. Herrick the position of surgeon general of Ohio, on the governor's staff. The appointment was made on the request of the Loyal Legion, and because of that fact Dr. Herrick decided upon its acceptance. He is also the recently elected president of the Ohio State Sanitary association.

Dr. Herrick was married on December 8, 1863, while home on a furlough after his release from Libby prison, to Miss Mary Brooks, daughter of Dr. M. L. Brooks, his old friend and partner. Four children have been born to them, and their home is one of the brightest and happiest places to be anywhere found. Dr. Herrick is of a cheerful and pleasant disposition, and always has a word of encouragement or good advice for the young. He is an earnest Christian, and an elder of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church. He is charitable, broad-minded, and a friend to every reform that is for the advancement of the people or the making better of the world. He is a close student and deep thinker, and a public speaker of acknowledged power and ability. He is respected and admired by all who have personal or professional dealings

with him, and those into whose family he comes in the capacity of a physician soon look upon him as friend.

That Dr. Herrick should have won his way at an early age into the front rank of his profession, was through no fortunate chance or mere accident. He has won every inch of the road upward. He early learned to know thoroughly the ground upon which he stood, and to recognize that the practice of medicine is an art founded upon scientific principles; in this respect allied to all other arts in their true application. The principles, which are the guide, are drawn from and are the conclusions of the unquestioned sciences of anatomy, physiology, histology, pathology, hygiene, chemistry and therapeutics. The road to success in the art of medicine must be found through these sciences, and all other endeavor is that of the charlatan or empiric. It has ever been a theory of Dr. Herrick's that one must comprehend the principles, and be able to interpret the individual case in the light of those principles; that the physician's success will depend upon his ability to detect differences in each individual case; and that it is well if he recognizes the human mechanism as a machine with all its component parts and organs—each designed for a certain function, and each performing that function as in a condition of health. This is implied in those underlying sciences which are the basis of the art of medicine. Comprehending the normal, one is able to detect and appreciate the departures therefrom, from whatever cause, which constitutes disease. He

holds that pathological anatomy is but the tracing in the tissues of departures from the natural process. Pathology considers the departure in all of its phenomena, taking knowledge of the disturbing cause.

Thus may be appreciated the complexity of the problems to be solved by the physician in his daily care of each individual case. The special skill which gives success is a not too common qualification. "Common sense' -which enables one under the guidance of these sciences to detect the variations in the different constitutions, as also the varying conditions, and change them for the patient's good in prescribing for the different phases of disease other things being equal, the one having the above named qualification in the most marked degree will be most successful in practice. He will hold the dogmas of all authors under judgment,

and receive from them such suggestions and aid as shall give light in each individual case. Thus we may conclude that while the practice of medicine is an art, with true natural science as its foundation, it still must rest for skill and success upon the individual judgment. In this respect it is like all other arts. One may be fully versed in the science of navigation and still be a very unsafe guide to a ship in an uncertain voyage amid conflicting influences. Good discriminating judgment must be applied, in all the arts, to give success in the application of science to all the affairs of life. Views in the direction pointed out in the above have often been set forth by Dr. Herrick in his lectures and writings, as in his practice; and the success that has attended him in that practice is the best possible proof that his theories of medicine are laid upon broad foundations of fact.

SEELYE A. WILLSON.

THOSE Who ruin and destroy are, by some strange fatalism of circumstances, given a larger share in the world's records than those who save and bind up. There is, of necessity, a sameness in the labors of a surgeon and physician, be he ever so successful, that prevents a full history of his life from being recorded, or at least keeps from him the full credit of the good works he has done. The soldier or the statesman may win in the bold stroke of a day, or even an hour, the glory that shall follow