After the war he moved to the Pacific Coast and in 1865 was President of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, and organized a medical department. Uniting with the conference he again began preaching.
Later he settled in Oakland, California, and in 1874 became professor of Microscopy and Histology in the Medical College of the Pacific, San Francisco, which became Cooper Medical College in 1882. Dr. Wythe continued in the chair of histology till 1897 and was Professor Emeritus till his death October 14, 1901.
He wrote several books, "The Microscopist, a Complete Manual on the Use of the Microscope" (1850), which went through several editions; "Curiosities of the Microscope" (1852); "Physician's Pocket Dose and Prescription Book" (1852, 8th ed. 1869); "Agreement of Science and Revelation" (1883); "Outlines of Normal and Pathological Histology. a Syllabus in 3 parts;" "Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology" (1883) and "The Science of Life" (1884), also numerous articles in the medical periodical press.
Dr. Wythe was a little round man, full of energy, a splendid teacher with a charming personality and an excellent gift for free hand drawing at the black-board with colored chalk with which he illustrated his lectures on histology. In the community in which he lived he was best known as a surgeon and although most of his work was done in the pre-antiseptic era he was very successful as an operator. He did a great deal of abdominal surgery, performing hysterectomy for fibroids, ovariotomy, and other major operations, and still he found time to occupy the pulpit on Sunday morning many times during each year.
Yale, LeRoy Milton (1841–1906)
LeRoy Milton Yale, pediatrist, and known also for his good etching, was born at Holmes Hole (Vineyard Haven), Massachusetts, on February 12, 1841, the son of LeRoy Milton and Maria Allen Yale.
He brought the same exactitude to his surgical as to his artistic work, and dealt with children with equal carefulness.
As an etcher he produced several hundred plates. The best of his work had the qualities demanded of a painter-etcher and he took an active interest in founding the New York Etching Club.
He graduated from Columbia College in 1862 and from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1866, lecturing there for some time on orthopedic surgery, and afterwards on obstetrics in the University of Vermont, also holding successively a surgeonship in the Charity, Bellevue, and Presbyterian Hospitals. He was co-editor of the Medical Gazette; medical editor of Babyhood and wrote "Nursery Problems," 1893; "The Century Book of Mothers;" "Phimosis," 1877; "The Mechanical Treatment of Chronic Diseases of the Hip-joints," 1878; "Remarks on Excision of the Hip," 1885; "The Diagnosis of Early Hip-joint Disease from Rheumatism, Neuralgia and So-called 'Growing-pains,'" 1893.
He died on September 14, 1906.
Yandell, David Wendel (1826–1898)
He was M. D., LL. D. (University of Louisville); soldier of the Civil War (South Carolina); medical director of the Department of the West; professor of clinical surgery University of Louisville; editor and founder of the American Practitioner; president of the American Medical Association; surgeon-general of the troops of Kentucky; president of the American Surgical Association; pioneer in clinical teaching in the west; honorary fellow, and corresponding member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh and fellow of the Medical Society of London.
Dr. Yandell was born at Craggy Bluff, Tennessee, on the fourth of September, 1826. The ancestors of the Yandells came from England and settled in South Carolina, in Colonial days. His father was Lunsford Pitts Yandell (q.v.), a pioneer in medical education in the West; his mother was Susan Juliet Wendel, a daughter of David Wendel, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. After a course at Centre College, Danville, he studied medicine at the University of Louisville, and graduated in 1846. That year he went to Europe, where he continued his studies for nearly two years and wrote two series of letters (one secular, the other medical) which established his reputation as a writer. In 1850 he was made demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Louisville. About this time he established the "Stokes Dispensary," the first clinical institution in the west, and later was elected to the chair of clinical medicine in the University. When the Civil War began Yandell
