the refinement, and the fine sense of personal honor with which they were associated.
Dr. Moreton Stillé was born in Philadelphia, on October 27th, 1822, and, after having gone through a preliminary course at the Edgehill Seminary, at Princeton, entered the Department of Arts of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and graduated on July 15th, 1841. He immediately began his professional studies in the office of his brother, Dr. Alfred Stillé, to whose training and instruction he became so greatly indebted; and in the spring of 1844 he received from the Medical School of the same University the degree of Doctor of Medicine, his thesis, on "Cyanosis,” having obtained the rare compliment of having been called for by the Faculty for publication. In October, 1844, he embarked for Liverpool; from November, 1844, to March, 1845, was engaged in attendance upon the hospitals and schools in Dublin; and was employed in the same duties from March, 1845, to September, in London, and from September, 1845, to March, 1846, in Paris. After travelling for some time, he visited Vienna, where he was occupied in study from October, 1846, to April, 1847; and finally returned to Philadelphia in the fall of 1847, when he entered at once into practice. In the summer of 1848 he became a candidate for and was elected to the post of Resident Physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he continued until April, 1849; and it is no slight evidence of the zeal with which he pursued his profession, and the generous and self-denying spirit by which he was actuated, that in the succeeding summer, upon the appearance of the cholera in a malignant type at the Blockley Hospital, he volunteered to attend at that instituton, and remained there until he was himself attacked and prostrated by the epidemic. Perhaps, indeed, even in a profession whose history has been so marked by acts of zeal and of disinterestedness, when we take into consideration the fact that Dr. Stillé was impelled by no other motive than that of professional love and enterprise in the severe course of study and self-sacrifice in which he was engaged, there will be found few cases where these qualities have been so eminently exhibited as the present. Possessed of an ample fortune, he was one of those uncommon instances in which the most arduous and protracted courses of preliminary trial are gone through with under the calm and equal effect of a will which is impelled neither by necessity nor the desire of present applause, but by the faith in a distant future, in which the result will be none the less precious because it is the longer delayed.
But this future was one which to Dr. Stillé-and to the great loss of popilar as well as of medical science-was only in part to arrive. Early in 1855 he received the appointment of Lecturer on the Practice of Medicine in the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction,