enthusiasm. From this, it resulted that his writings may sometimes be criticised for an exuberance of diction and fancy, in places where a simple lucid statement of fact would be more pertinent. But he was an important factor for good in the community, with much of the dignity and manner of the previous generation, and was always ready to espouse a generous cause.
As a teacher he was most successful, and his dermatological clinic at the Rush Medical College was held in high esteem. His punctuality at this clinic during many years of service was notable in the case of so busy a practitioner. His service in the college faculty was also very active, and he was closely identified with every forward movement for improving the policies and activities of this institution. Dr. Hyde's personality was most engaging, and his influence over his patients and colleagues was thus greatly favored. Apart from his scientific contributions he did much to strengthen the dignity and fair repute of his profession.
Hyndman, James Gilmour (1853–1904).
James Gilmour Hyndman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12, 1853, and died in that city, September 18, 1904. He was the son of William Graves and Barbara Gilmour Hyndman, natives of the north of Ireland, who came to America in their early childhood. Hyndman received his education in the public schools, and graduated from Woodward High School in 1870, when seventeen.
He began to study medicine under Dr. James T. Whittaker (q. v.), and in 1872 entered the Cincinnati Hospital as interne and remained in that capacity for two years. In 1847 he graduated from the Medical College of Chicago, having served as interne. In the same year he began to practise, and in July became assistant editor, and in 1875 co-editor of The Clinic, a journal then published by the Medical College of Ohio, Dr. J. T. Whittaker being editor.
In 1875 he was made physician to the dispensary and assistant to the chair of physiology in the Medical College of Ohio, and among other appointments had that of assistant to the chair of theory and practise, 1875; lecturer on laryngology and physical diagnosis, 1877; professor of chemistry, 1879; chair of laryngology, 1894.
He was a most excellent teacher, and for several years he was consulting laryngologist to the German Hospital of Cincinnati. Dr. Hyndman was a ripe scholar and one of the translators of "Ziemssen's Cyclopedia of Medicine."
On June 20, 1883, he married Mary E. Mitchell, daughter of Samuel M. Mitchell of Martinsville, Indiana, but they had no children. Hyndman died in Cincinnati, September 18, 1904, of appendicitis.
Ingals, Ephraim (1823–1900)
Ephraim Ingals was descended from the Edmund Ingalls who, coming from Lincolnshire, England, with Governor Endicott's colony (landing at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1628), was the first settler of Lynn, Massachusetts. Ephraim was the youngest of nine children and was born in Abington, Connecticut, May 26, 1823. Left an orphan at the age of eight he had to work for his support and in 1837 went to Lee County, Illinois, where a branch of the Ingals family had settled, and worked on a farm for three years. He went to school, but having small means manual labor was combined with study. From 1845 to 1847 he attended Rush Medical College and graduated in February, 1847. He settled at Lee Center, Illinois, and practised there for ten years, then moved to Chicago meeting with success as a general practitioner. He was associated with Daniel Brainard (q.v.) and De Laskie Miller in running the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Journal; he succeeded John H. Rauch (q.v.)) as professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Rush Medical College (1859). Although not a brilliant lecturer he was a good teacher, and remained at the college until 1871, when he resigned and was made emeritus professor; he was treasurer of the College part of the time and was active in the construction of a new building; his private practice pressed him and he was sometimes forced to go to a morning lecture without having slept the night before.
His broad interest in the profession led him to suggest building a medical library for the use of physicians at large, but when he learned that the trustees of the Newberry Library had planned for a Medical Library Department, he heartily joined in this effort, and became specially active in advancing the standards of medical education. He believed in a better general education for intending students of medicine and longer terms of graded instruction in college before graduation.
