Annals of the Medical Society of the County of Albany, 1806-1851 : with biographical sketches of deceased members / Sylvester D. Willard.

  • Willard, Sylvester David, 1825-1865.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Annals of the Medical Society of the County of Albany, 1806-1851 : with biographical sketches of deceased members / Sylvester D. Willard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    fits accruing from a proper system of diet during their illness, a subject that had attracted less attention forty years ago than it has of late years. He was beloved by many of his patients, some of whom were men of distin- guished positions in life. As a citizen and a man, his career was honorable and his character unblemished. In 1845, after thirty-five years of active professional life, Dr. Williams withdrew from its cares, and took his resi- dence in Alder Creek, Oneida county, where he at pre- sent resides in the enjoyment of reasonable health, in the 80th year of his age, and passing the evening of his life in a calm and dignified tranquillity. The contemporaries of Dr. Williams were Stringer and Mancius, McClelland and Woodruff, Willard and Wendell, Townsend, Wm. Bay, T. Romeyn Beck and Joel A. Wing. With a single exception these have all closed useful and honorable lives. Bay and Williams remain like: sturdy oaks where the forests have fallen. Their lives cover the period. of our national government and they survive to witness the most trying period of its existence. May they once more see peace and prosperity in the land, and close their lives only to begin the joys of a better world. JAMES WADE. James Wade was a son of James and Mary (Upham) Wade, and was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 5th day of June, 1789. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Edward Upham. His father served as a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. James received a common school education, and some instruction in Latin. At the age of seventeen he had grown restless at home, and did what boys sometimes use to do, run away. He came to Albany, where he was obliged to rely .on his own enterprise and industry; he therefore hired to a farmer and worked during the sum-