FAGET
FARRAND
fourth and fifth day, still these symp-
toms, more pronounced, the pulse fall-
ing, often to sixty, even fifty, while the
temperature is maintained. This im-
portant observation, made and given out
by Dr. Faget in 1S59, was bitterly assail-
ed at the time, but its truth was quick-
ly recognized by Dr. Thomas Layton
and later by Dr. Just Touatre. In
1S70 the latter, who had used for years
in his service as a French marine sur-
geon, a large rectal centigrade thermom-
eter, was able to absolutely confirm the
observation of Dr. Faget, that often in
the first twenty-four or thirty-six hours,
with a rising temperature, as shown
by the thermometer, the pulse instead
of becoming more rapid is proven by
the watch to be gradually falling, los-
ing entirely its usual correlation. This
undoubtedly due to some intense toxin
absorption affecting the sympathetic
nervous system. Often a rising tem-
perature of 105 or 104 Fahrenheit
shows a pulse of sixty, or as low as-
fifty per minute. For this most im-
portant clinical observation and also
his "differential symptomatic signs in
hematemesic paludal fever," after the
epidemic of yellow fever of 1858, he
was decorated by the French govern-
ment as a Chevalier de la Legion
D'Honneur. And for his "Type and
Specific of Malaria with Watch and
Thermometer" he received twenty-
four votes out of fifty-three for his can-
didature as a member of the Academic
M6dicale de Paris. Dr. Faget was also
made a member of the Louisiana State
Board of Health. His personality was
an ideal one, for besides his great med-
ical ability he had splendid qualities
of heart and mind, modest and pure;
he was a consistent Christian and al-
ways a thorough and honorable gentle-
man. This well spent life when it
ended, September 4, 1884, had cer-
tainly been a most useful one and the
Faget law of pulse and temperature
is as well knows in the entire yel-
low-fever zone as the mosquito dogma is
to-day. L. G. I..
Farish, Henry Greggs (1770-1856).
Henry Greggs Farish, son of a Com- missary in the British Army, was born in Brooklyn, New York, about 1770, and was engaged first as assistant sur- geon and later as surgeon in the Brit- ish Navy, and after practising for a time in England, came to Nova Scotia and settled in Yarmouth in 1803, where he remained in active practice till his death fifty-three years later. In ad- dition to his duties as medical practi- tioner he filled for many years, with singular ability and integrity, many im- portant public offices. He was naval officer, collector of excise, registrar of deeds, and an able magistrate.
Three of his sons adopted medicine as a profession. Greggs Joseph and James C. settled in Yarmouth, and Henry G. in Liverpool, England.
Dr. Farish must have been extremely methodical in all his ways, other- wise he could not have successfully carried on a large practice in conjunc- tion with his many public duties. As a proof of the careful and conscientious manner in which he cared for his pa- tients, there is no better evidence than the record of 2,148 cases of labor at- tended by him.
The Farish obstetrical record was published in volume 4, page 177 of the " Maritime Medical News," Halifax, and is a very interesting document. It includes over 10,000 cases of con- finement attended by the father and his three sons.
Dr. Farish died in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1856. D. A. C.
Farrand, David Osbora (1S37-1883).
David Osborn Farrand was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 23, 1S37, the son of Judge Bethuel Farrand, promi- nent in the early history of Michigan, and Deborah Osborn Farrand, whose culture and tactful manners made a home full of benediction to all who were its guests. David had his general education in the Ann Arbor schools and literary department of the univer-
