In September, 1857, he had married Caroline Darlington, daughter of Judge Thomas S. Bell of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Goodell was one of the founders and president of the American Obstetrical Society and of the American Gynecological Society, honorary fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, corresponding fellow of the London Obstetrical Society, honorary fellow Imperial Medical Society of Constantinople, fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, professor and honorary professor of gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania.
Among his contributions to medical literature there was only one in book form, "Lessons in Gynecology" (1879), which passed through three editions in his lifetime. A full list of articles can be seen in the Surgeon's-General Catalogue, Washington, District of Columbia. Some of the more important are:
"Concealed Accidental Hemorrhage of the Gravid Womb," 106 cases, 1869.
"On Turning in Pelves narrowed in the Conjugate Diameter," 1875.
"Extirpation of Ovaries for Some Disorders of Menstrual Life," 1879.
"Prolapse of the Womb," 1873.
"A Year's Work in Ovariotomy," 1883.
"Early Diagnosis Essential to the Cure of Uterine Cancer," 1892.
D. W.
Am. Gyn. and Obstet. J., N. Y., 1895, vol. vi (W. H. Parish).
Am. Jour. Obstet., N. Y., 1894, vol. xxx (T. Parvin).
Med. News, Phila., 1894, vol. lxv.
Tr. Am. Gyn. Soc., Phila., 1895, vol. xx (B. C. Hirst).
Goodman, Henry Ernest, (1836-1896).
Henry Ernest Goodman was born in a small town near Speedwell, Philadelphia, on April 12, 1836. He received his doctor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1859 and his first medical experiences as resident physician of the Philadelphia Hospital. After the expiration of his term as resident a position was given him in the Wills Eye Hospital where he followed the line of work that especially interested him in his profession.
Dr. Goodman served in the twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry and later rose to the rank of medical director of the army of Georgia, ranking as a colonel. At his own request he was mustered out November 3, 1864.
The medical world will remember him as a founder of the Orthopedic Hospital and an originator of the Pennsylvania State Hospital for Women. At the time of his death, February 3, 1896, he was emeritus professor of surgery in the Medico-Chirurgical College.
M. K. K.
Tr. Coll. of Phys., Phila., vol. xix, 1897.
Goodwin, James Scammon (1793-1884).
Col. James Scammon, of Saco, was a man of infinite jest, as it stands on his tomb stone to this day. It was probably from him that James Scammon Goodwin got his name. He was born at Old Fields, at the old Goodwin homestead in South Berwick, Maine, November 11, 1793, the youngest of eleven children of a family widely known in that part of the country for their public services as well as for personal worth: his father was the then famous Maj.-Gen. Ichabod Goodwin, of Revolutionary renown, and his mother, Mollie Wallingford, of Berwick.
James Goodwin fitted for college at the Berwick Academy under the charge of Maj. Josiah Seaver, and entered Dartmouth College when fourteen. He was sent there thus early in order to be under the observance of an elder brother Dominicus, who graduated with him in the class of 1811. James then studied medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and took his degree in 1814, when twenty-one.
He obtained a surgeon's appointment at the latter end of the war of 1812-15 but did not actually serve. His
