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5 Medico-Legal J. 1 (1887-1888)

handle is hein.journals/medlejo5 and id is 1 raw text is: JL'qAA C RA V, M. D., L.L. ). By CAIARLES K. MILLS, 3i. D., President of the A merican Neztrloqical Association, etc. At the Meeting of this Society held December 8, 1886, I had the honor to ask your attention to the consideration of the life and character of Dr. Benjamin Rush, and par- ticularly to the relation which this great man bore to the early history of American Psychiatry. In a more recent period, but with an even greater renown in the field of, psychological medicine, appears the figure of Dr. Isaac Ray. It is my purpose in the present paper briefly, and I fear, very imperfectly, to recall his character and labors, and it is fitting that this should be done before a Medico-Legal Society, for to him, more than to any other American the science of the jurisprudence of insanity is a debtor. Dr. Ray was born at Beverly, Mass., January 16, 1 807. He began his education at the Phillips Academy, An- dover, Mass., and subsequently entered the Bowdoin Col- lege in Maine, teaching school during his vacations. He left college because of impaired health before graduation. Read before the Medico-Legal Society, of N'ew York, April 13, 1887.