Continuing from "Transaction of the Kentucky State Medical Society, 1875" on the life of Dr. Henry Miller. Here follows a description of the Louisville Medical Institute. Paragraph ends: Dr. Caldwell, who bore an active and effective part in securing this appropriation, recognized the claims of Dr. Miller to be the chair which he had resigned in view of a reorganization of the faculty, and advised his re-election. He was accordingly restored to the chair of Obstetric Medicine in the spring of 1837. In this position he found all the circumstances necessary to the development of his fine powers, and he continued to enjoy the place for many years. It gave him pre-eminence in the line of his profession to which he devoted himself by choice. During those prosperous years he wrote a work on Obstetrics, the publication of which greatly extended his reputation; and his business from abroad, as well as at home, steadily increased. His book, which was published in 1849, met with much professional favor. By the medical journals of our country, and some in England, it was highly praised as a sound, judicious system of midwifery; and a second edition, which he lived to issue, has taken its place among the standard treatises on Obstetrics. It is characterized by independence of thought, and a clearness and soundness of judgment for which Dr. Miller was eminently distinguished. Besides this systematic work, Dr. Miller is the author of many valuable papers published in the Transylvania Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of the Medical Science, the Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, the Western Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, the American Journal of Obstetrics, and the Louisville Journal of Medicine and Surgery. Of the last-named periodical, only two numbers of which wee issued, Dr. Miller was the senior editor. His papers in this journal were entitled, "Vulgar Errors in Medicine" and "Cases of Puerperal Convulsions occurring immediately after the birth of the child." Notable among his papers is the report of a case of ovariotomy successfully performed by him in 1847 (Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. II, New Series). In 1858 the state of the medical department of the University of Louisville, in which the Medical Institute had been merged twelve years before, had become one of great depression. Owing to various adverse causes, the chief of which were the frequent changes in its faculty and the establishment of a medical school at Nashville - the terminus for several years of its railroad to Louisville - its classes had declined in number until they fell below a hundred. Dr. Miller, at the close of the session of that year, sent in his resignation. In 1867 he was again elected to the chair of Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women in the University, but resigned it in the succeeding spring. In 1869 he accepted the corresponding chair in the Louisville Medical College, which he held up to the time of his death.: To be concluded next week. Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky