TODD, Eli, physician, born in New Haven, Connecticut, 22 July, 1769; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 17 November, 1833. He was graduated at Yale in 1787, and sailed for the West Indies shortly afterward, intending to travel in Europe and Asia, but was prevented by sickness at Trinidad. Having lost the fortune left him by his father, he was obliged to prepare for a profession, and, selecting that of medicine, he be-fan to practise, after the required course of medical study, in Farmington, Connecticut He removed to New York about 1810, but returned to Farming-ton, and remained there until 1819, when he went to Hartford, where he soon became the chief consulting physician. In 1821 there was a notable increase in the number of insane persons in Hartford and the neighborhood. Dr. Todd appreciated the difficulty of treating them in private practice, and it was principally due to him that the attention of the profession and public was awakened to the necessity of having a special institution for their care. He was principally instrumental in founding the Retreat for the insane at Hartford, one of the earliest of the kind, was elected its superintendent, and presided over it till his death. Under him it became one of the best-managed institutions either in this country or Europe. Dr. Todd was repeatedly elected president and vice-president of the Medical society of Connecticut. He was the author of several professional monographs and some occasional addresses.