Dr. and Mrs. A. Duvall Atkinson, who have been spending a few days in Washington, have returned to their home, 924 North Charles street.
Under the title of leading men of Maryland, “The Star” has this to say concerning Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany:
Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany is not only one of the best-known men in Maryland, but enjoys a reputation that is international as an operating surgeon. He has performed successfully many unusual and difficult operations, and has contributed much to his profession by original research. He was born in Baltimore, October 10, 1844, and is related to the well-known McLane family of Maryland and Delaware. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Cambridge University, England, in 1866, and upon his return to Baltimore entered the University of Maryland as a medical student, his degree as doctor of medicine being conferred upon him in 1868. He soon attained prominence in his chosen work. For many years he has been professor of the principles and practice of surgery at the University of Maryland. He has been operating surgeon of many of the Baltimore hospitals, has performed operations on prominent persons all over the country, and is the author of a number of treatises on particular phases of surgery. Dr. Tiffany helped to found the Maryland Clinical Society, is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and an active or honorary member of many other societies.
Recently there was unveiled at St. Timothy's Church, at Catonsville, Md., a beautiful memorial window designed and executed in Favrile glass to the memory of Dr. Charles G. W. Macgill, who was president of the First National Bank of Catonsville and a physician widely known in that part of Baltimore county. This memorial, the subject of which is St. Luke, is in three panels, the figure of the evangelist being in the center opening, while a splendid landscape is carried out in the two side panels. On a scroll carried by St. Luke is the text: “For to one is given by the Spirit the gifts of healing.” 1 Cor., xii: 8-9. At the base of the window is the dedicatory inscription: “In Loving Memory of Charles G. W. Macgill. Born May 10th, 1833. Died April 28th, 1907.”
At the coming meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. Henry D. Fry, of Washington, will read a paper on “An Ovarian Abscess Containing a Lunbricoid Worm Within the Cavity;” H. D. Hynson, Phar. D., “The National Formulary: Its Genesis, Character and Exigent Utility.”
Dr. W. L. Hart, class of 1906, first lieutenant, United States Army, has been ordered to accompany Company G, Engineers, to San Francisco, Cal., and then to return to Washington Barracks, D. C.