University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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3ln ISRAEL COOK RUSSELL, C.E., LL.D., Professor of Geology Died at Ann Arbor, May I, 1906 WILLIAM JAMES HKRDMAN, PH.B., M.I)., LL.D. Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, and of Electrotherapeutics, in the Department of Medicine and Surgery Died at Baltimore, Md., December 14, 1906 EARI.E WRIGHT GARDNER, ' 08 Law . . . Harbor Springs, Michigan Killed by Railway Train at Ypsilanti on May 2, 1906 CHARLES VIVIAN MCKADDEN STUCKY, ' 08 Law . . Mechanicsburg, Ohio Died at Ann Arbor, April 16, 1906 ESTEI.LE CHARLOTTE BRIGC.S, ' 08 Lit ... Ann Arbor, Michigan Died at Ann Arbor, June 29, 1906 RICHARD CLARE O ' BRIEN, ' 07 Lit Detroit, Michigan Drowned at Scranton, Pa., July 20, 1906 LAWRENCE KNIC.HT TRUE, ' ex; Lit Chicago, Illinois Drowned in Saginaw Bay, August 5, 1906 HARVEY EUGENE STARR, ' 08 Dental .... Moscow, New York Died at Ann Arbor, October 29, 1906 JOHN Ross FRAZER, ' 09 Engineer .... Geneseo, New York Died at Ann Arbor, November 25, 1906 ERNEST AMASA RUSH, ' 08 Engineer Owosso, Michigan Died at Ann Arbor, November 16, 1906 JOSEPH HARRY STONHOUSB, ' 08 Hbraeop . . . Escanaba, Michigan Died at Chicago, 111., November 17, 1906 Ai. v IN HOLTHE NELSON, ' 08 Engineer .... Muskegon, Michigan Drowned at Holland, Michigan, November 21, 1906 SINGLETON PORTER COLE, ' 07 Pharmic .... Detroit, Michigan Died at Ann Arbor, January 9, 1907

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FIVE PRESIDENTS ' OF THE UNIVERSITY HENRY S. FRIEZE HAKKV H. HUTCHINS HENRY 1 ' . TAITAN ERASTUS O. HAVEN JAMES B. ANGELL

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WILLIAM JAMES HERDMAN Late Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, and of Electrotherapeutics, in the Department of Medicine and Surgery Died at Baltimore, Md., December 14, 1906 Dr. Herdman came to the University of Michigan as a student in the year 1868 and was graduated in 1872. As an undergraduate he pursued his studies intelligently and stood high in his class room. In student affairs he had the confidence and respect of his fellows and soon became prominent in college organizations. His inclination towards the sciences was shown at that time by his elections, and be- fore graduation he became a member of the staff of an important geological survey. Immediately after completing his literary course he entered the Medical Department where he was made an assistant demonstrator of anatomy before graduation. His appointments in the Univer- sity since graduation have been as follows: Demonstrator of Anatomy, 1875-00; Lecturer on Patho- logical Anatomy, 1879-80; Assistant Professor of Pathological Anatomy, 1880-82; Professor of Prac- tical and Pathological Anatomy, 1882-88; Professor of Practical Anatomy and Diseases of the Nervous WILLIAM JAMES HERDMAN System, 1888-90; Professor of Nervous Diseases and Electrotherapeutics, 1890-98; Professor of the Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System and Electrotherapeutics since 1898. While demonstrator of anatomy, Dr. Herdman with Dr. Frothingham, formerly demonstrator, and the Hon. A. J. Sawyer, at that time member of the Legislature from this district, after an edu- cational campaign, succeeded in inducing the legislature to pass the Anatomical Bill which, without material change remains in force today. Before that time the State gave medical instruction, of which practical anatomy was a specified and required braiich; and at the same time the law made it a penal offense for the demonstrator of anatomy to secure the material necessary to give this instruction. About the year 1881 Drs. Langley and Herdman established the Electrotherapeutical Labora- toryone of the first, if not the first, laboratory of this kind ever organized. With the resignation of Dr. Langley from the Faculty in 1888, the directorship of this laboratory devolved wholly upon Dr. Herdman, and under his supervision it has grown, until now it is daily utilized not only in teach- ing to students the application of electricity, but also in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Dr. Herdman was among the pioneers in the application of electricity to the treatment of disease and in devoting himself so largely to this therapeutic agent he avoided over statement concerning its nature. Dr. Herdman was the founder of the Department of Nervous Diseases in this University. This important branch received but scant recognition, being included in lecturers on the practice of medi- cine, before he took charge of it. From its very foundation the department of Nervous Diseases is