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THOMAS, Amos Russell, physician, born in Watertown, New York, 3 October, 1826. He acquired his education while working on a farm, taught school, and was graduated at Syracuse medical college in 1854. He removed to Philadelphia, was appointed to the chair of anatomy in the Penn medical university, and also was lecturer on artistic anatomy in the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts for fifteen years. In 1863 he received a similar appointment in the School of design for women. During the civil war he volunteered and served as army surgeon. In 1867 he connected himself with the Hahnemann medical college of Philadelphia, of which he is now the dean. He has contributed numerous papers to medical literature, is the author of "Post-mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy" (Philadelphia, 1870), and general editor of the " Homoeopathic Materia Medica."
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