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STRINGHAM, James S., physician, born in New York city in 1775; died in St. Croix, Wisconsin, 28 June, 1817. He was graduated at Columbia in 1793, and began to study theology, but abandoned it for medicine, which he pursued first under Dr. Samuel Bard and Dr. David Hosack in New York, and then at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his degree in 1799. He was professor of chemistry in Columbia in 1802-'13, and of medical jurisprudence in the College of physicians and surgeons from 1813 till his death. He was the first to lecture here on the latter science, and may be regarded as its founder in the United States. Dr. String-ham was one of the most efficient of the early pro-motets of science in this country, He was a physician of the New York hospital, a member of the Royal medical society of Edinburgh, and a fellow of the New York literary, philosophical, and historical societies. He published " De Absorbentium Systemate," his inaugural dissertation; and various essays and papers in medical journals.
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