ecological Society; the New
York Academy of Medicine; the New York Pathological Society; the New
York Obstetrical Society; the New York Medical Journal Association,
etc., etc., he reaped all the honors. Yet no one ever thought of him
as a seeker of office. The tribute was always spontaneous, necessary:
'Palmam qui meruit ferat!'

"And these honors were not awarded for any great effort or success in
some partial field. He was decorated for service in each specific
line, as Physician, Surgeon, Pathologist, Gynaecologist, Bibliographer.
His attainments were comprehensive and symmetrical.

"He had the very great advantage of a liberal general education. This
gave him his broad outlook upon all departments of science. He had by
nature a mathematical and logical habit of mind. This made him the
accurate and complete student that he was, both in original
investigations and literary research. At the outset of his career he
sought the best schools. Just then (1840) reigned a new enthusiasm in
the physical and experimental study of the Medical Sciences at Paris.
Laennec, Andral, Louis, Malgaigne, Velpeau, and Bernard, were the
worthy models and masters of the young American.

"Thus well-endowed, well-grounded, and well-guided, he entered upon a
life of professional study, which he pursued with unremitting ardor
and diligence even to the end of life.

"It would seem to be a great thing to say of any man that he was never
idle, and never unprofitably employed; but it might be more justly
said of Dr. Peaslee than of any other person known to the writer. He
wasted no work. His conclusions were not reached by intuition or
guess, but slowly and surely elaborated, exactly formulated and
classified, so as to be always at his command.

"More than any other member of the profession known to the writer did
he illustrate each clause of Bacon's category, that 'Reading maketh
the full man; writing the exact man; and conversation the ready man.'

"From the first he was an agreeable and satisfactory teacher, year by
year, increasingly so; this work he did for thirty-six years; in six
Medical Colleges, in five different departments of the curriculum,
before nearly a hundred different classes of students. Such training,
such practice, made him a teacher in every professional circle. In
societies he was wont to be a silent and often apparently an
abstracted listener until near the close of the debate; then he would
rise and review the whole