GLASGOW
GLASGOW
and assistant of Agassiz, and accom-
panied him to the United States in 1847,
remaining with him until 1850, when
Girard removed to Washington, District
of Columbia, and became attached to the
Smithsonian Institution. In 1852 he
was naturalized as an American citizen,
and after taking his M. D. in 1856 at
Georgetown College, District of Columbia,
remained in the Smithsonian Institution
until 1S59, being for some time engaged
with Prof. Baird in the investigation of
reptiles. His publications were: "Mam-
malia" in the " Iconographic Encyclo-
pedia of Science, Literature and Art,"
New York, 1851 ; " Monograph of the Cot-
toids, " Washington, 1851; "Reptiles,"
(in collaboration with Prof. Spencer F.
Baird) in Stansburg's " Exploration and
Survey of the Great Lake of Utah,"
1853; " Bibliographia American Historico
Naturalis," 1852; "Catalogue of North
American Reptiles in the Museum of the
Smithsonian Institution — Part 1, Ser-
pents" (in collaboration with Prof. Baird,
1853); "Researches upon Nemerteans
and Planarians I, Embryonic Develop-
ment of Planocera Elliptica," Philadel-
phia, 1S54 ; " Life in its Physical Aspects, "
Washington, 1855; "Reptiles, Fishes and
Crustacea" in Gilliss' United States
Naval Astronomical Expedition to Chili,"
1856; "Herpetology of the United States
Exploring Expedition under the Com-
mand of Cap. Wilkes," 1858; "General
Report upon Fishes in the United States
Explorations and Surveys for Railroad
Routes from the Mississippi River to the
Pacific Ocean," 1859; and the "Report
upon Fishes" in "Emory's Survey of the
United States and Mexican Boundary,"
1859.
He died in France the twenty-ninth of January, 1895.
D. S. L.
Drake's Biog., 1872. Bull. 41, 1891, U. S. National Museum. Appleton's Biog., 18S7.
Glasgow, William Carr (1S45-1907).
William Carr Glasgow, one of the founders of the Laryngological Society
and its president in 1890, was born in
St. Louis on January 16, 1845 and
graduated from the St. Louis Medical
College and also from the University of
Vienna. He held the chairs of clinical
medicine and laryngology at Washing-
ton University, and was consulting phy-
sician to the City Hospital of St. Louis
and the Martha Parsons Hospital for
Children.
He was an original thinker and writer and his essay on " Cellular Infiltration of the Lungs" first described with exactness the physical signs and symptoms of in- fluenza, calling it septic cellular edema.
In 1887 he pointed out certain meas- ures for the relief of congestive headache, the condition which is now coming into prominence in the rhinological world as nasal headache. In 1885 he wrote on what is now discussed as "rhinitis ner- vosa." In 18S7, in a paper entitled " The Etiology and Mechanism of Asthma," he pointed out the interarytenoid mem- brane as the starting-point of the asth- matic reflex in some instances.
A full list of his writings should in- clude:
"Papillomatous Growths in the Vocal Cords of a Child (Ten Years) ; Successful Removal." (There is no date on this reprint but its text records that it ante- dated the discovery of cocaine).
"Plastic Bronchitis." ("Transactions of the American Medical Association," 1879.)
"Varicose Aneurysm of the Aorta; a Report of a Case of the Aorta Communi- cating with the Superior Vena Cava." ("St. Louis Courier of Medicine," Janu- ary, 1885.)
"The Etiology and Mechanism of Asthma." ("American Journal of the Medical Sciences," 1887.)
" On Certain Measures for the Relief of Congesitve Headache." ("New York Medical Journal," September 3, 1887.)
"Cavernous Angioma of the Larynx; Removal." ("American Journal of Med- ical Sciences," April, 1889. Read at the tenth annual Congress of the American Laryngological Association, 1888.)
