Name: Joseph Hatch
Linsley
Cause of death: meningitis
Death date: Feb 17, 1901
Place of death: Burlington, VT
Birth date: 1859
Type of practice: Allopath
Practice specialities:PTH Anatomic/Clinical Pathol, ID
Infectious Diseases
Hospital affiliations: St. Luke's Hosp., Presbyterian Hosp
Medical school(s): University of Vermont College of
Medicine, Burlington, 1880, (G)
Other education: Bacteriology course under Koch, Berlin
Professorship: University of Vermont College of Medicine,
Burlington, pathology, bacteriology
Journal of the American Medical Association Citation: 36:585 |
Dr. J. H.
Linsley died at his
home in Burlington, Vt., February 17th, at the age of forty-one, of
meningitis. Dr. Linsley is survived by his wife and two children.
He was the only son of the late
Hon. D. C. Linsley and grandson of Hon. Jo D. Hatch. He was born at
Windsor, Vt., in 1859. He was graduated from the
Medical Department of the University
of Vermont in 1880, and later was in active practice up to 1887. His
health failed about this time, and after a period of recuperation he
went to New York City and was
appointed instructor in clinical microscopy in the
New York Post-Graduate Medical School
and Hospital. One year later he was made director of the
laboratories of histology, pathology and bacteriology. He was also
pathologist to the New York Post-Graduate
Hospital and the New York
Infant Asylum. In addition, he did the pathological work of St.
Luke's and the Presbyterian hospitals, during a part of the summer
of 1889. In 1890 Dr. Linsley spent the summer in Berlin and took a
course in bacteriology under Koch. He was also English secretary
of the Section for Hygiene of the Tenth International
Medical Congress Leid in Berlin in
August, 1890. in the fall of the same year he again went to Germany
ae representative of the
New York Post-Graduate Medical School
and obtained some of Koch's lymph.
Returning to
New York City, he gave the first
address on the lymph treatment for tuberculosis in
New York in the Academy of Medicine
before the Medical Society of the
County of New York. Later Dr. Linsley
translated " Fraenkel's Grundries der Bakterienkunde." Later he was
made professor of pathology and bacteriology at the University of
Vermont, and in some capacity he was connected with the
Medical Department of the university
for many years. He served as city physician of Burlington for three
years, and as health officer for the same period. He was also a
member of the Board of Pension Examiners for Chittenden County. On
the establishment of the State Laboratory of Hygiene he was made its
chief, and in that capacity he had done most useful work.
(The personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
