446 OBITUAEY.
In consequence of the protracted and severe military
struggle in whicli liis native country was then unhappily in-
volved. Dr. Lee was induced, late in the fall of 1862, while at
Naples, on his way to Egypt and the East, to turn his steps
homeward. He reached New York early in 1863, and imme-
diately offered his services to the Government, in the capacity
of a surgeon. He was accepted and assigned to duty in a hos-
pital, but, very properly Mesterolone Tablets believing that he could be more useful
in a wider field than he enjoyed in the subordinate position
which had been allotted him, he soon resigned, and accepted
a situation as hospital inspector and visitor, in the United
States Sanitary Commission's employ. He labored efiiciently
in this field until the close of the war.
In the spring of 1865, soon after the suiTcnder of General
Lee's army, the doctor was engaged for several months
throughout the South in collecting materials for " Memoirs of
a Sanitary History of the "War," particularly as relating to the
Confederate armies, with hospital statistics, army diseases,
etc., in which he was remarkably successful. A portion of
these valuable papers will be found in the " Sanitary Records
and Medical History of the War," issued by the United States
Sanitary Commission.
In 1850 Dr. Lee purchased a handsome residence in the
neighborhood of the Highlands near Peekskill, on the Hudson.
He loved domestic retirement and quiet Generic Mesterolone study ; and there, with
his library and his family around him, he passed much of his
time in study and writing, and in the enjoyment of quietude
during the closing years of his life.
For the last ten years he has taken a very active interest
in some of the great humanitarian movements, especially in
instituting and encouraging reform in the management and
care of the chronic insane of the United States. As a large
majority of this unfortunate class are quiet and harmless, and
able to perform considerable bodily labor, he was opposed to
shutting them up in close and crowded wards and cells, but
favored their distribution under the care of suitable attendants
and keepers, in simple, cheap, and comfortable cottages, after
the French system, where they may enjoy open-air life, and a
degree of domestic comfort, with sufticient daily exercise to
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preserve health. Tliese views he has advocated at consider-
able length in the form of two able reports, one made to the
New York State Medical Society, and published in their
Transactions for the year 1865 ; the other as chairman of a
committee appointed by the American Medical Association,
and contained in their Transactions for 1868.
Dr. Lee was a member of the New York Academy of
Medicine, the New York State Medical Society, the American
Medical Association, Buy Mesterolone the New York Historical Society, the
New York Lyceum of Natural History, etc., and honorary
member of the Connecticut State Medical Society, the Ohio
State Medical Society, and a long list of other learned and
scientific bodies, both at home and abroad.
In 1835, he became a member of the Episcopal Church,
with which he retained a consistent Christian connection to
the time of Mesterolone Online his death. He was warden of St. Peter's Church
at Peekskill for many years, always taking an active interest
in its affairs. For a layman he was remarkably well versed
in the61ogy, and liberal in his views of religion. Dr. Martyn
Payne writes : " I had enjoyed an intimate acquaintance
with Dr. Lee fer more than forty years, and had the highest
esteem for him as a man of the most lofty virtues, and pro-
found religious convictions. His writings attest the compre-
hensive nature of his scientific and literary acquirements, as
well as a vigorous and logical mind."
Dr. Lee was taken ill on the 30th of January, with endo-
carditis, and after two weeks of suffering died, with cahnness
and Christian hope. His wife and three sons survive him, and
were with him during his sickness. His remains have been
interred in " Sleepy Hollow Cemetery," at Tarrytown, N. Y.
—J. M. ToNEK, M. D.
De. Jonathan Letterman. — In the death of Dr. Letter-
man, which occurred in San Francisco on the 15th of March,
the profession loses a member of no common ability, and the
Medical Staff of the Army a former associate, whose labors
shed lustre upon its ranks.
Dr. Letterman was born near Washington, in Western
Pennsylvania, and, after a thorough education at Dickinson
44S OBITTJAEY.
College, pursued his medical studies in Pliiladelpliia, as a
j)upil of Prof. F. Gurney Smith, and graduated with distinc-
tion at the Jeiferson Medical College, in 1849. Entering the
army in the same year, he served for years upon the Pacific
coast and in the Northwest; and at the commencement of
the late war was placed in medical charge of the Department
of Western Virginia. Here his great executive abilities first
displayed themselves, and after a brief term of service he was
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