OSGOOD, Dauphin WilUam

[s. 584] : Born at Nelson, N. H., November 5, 1845; studied medicine at Brunswick, Me., and Lowell, Ma ., graduating at the University of New York in 1869; sailed as a medical mi ionary of the ABCFM for Fuchau, China, December, 1869. He soon mastered the intricacies of the Chinese language, acquiring a knowledge of both the Mandarin and local dia- One of his earliest efforts was the establishment of the Fuchau Medical Mi ionary Hospital. During the ten years of its existence medical aid was given gratuitously to 51,838 patients among the poorer cla es. He established also in connection with the mi ion an asylum for the victims of opium, and in two years 1,500 patients received treatment, a large number of whom were cured. He was frequently called as a consulting physician by his medical confreres. Every hour he could spare from the active duties of his profe ion for the last four years of his life was devoted to the translation into Chinese of a standard work on anatomy. The finishing touches were put to it only on the day before his death. work has been published The in five volumes, illustrated by numerous plates. It is the first of its kind in the Chinese language, and has been much used in China. He died at the sanitarium near Fuchau August lects. 17, 1880. 584