WYETH, John Allan, surgeon, born in Missionary Station, Marshall County, Alabama, 26 May, 1845. He was educated at Lagrange military academy, Alabama, and served as a private in the 4th Alabama cavalry during the civil war. After his graduation at the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1869 he settled in Guntersville, Alabama, but in 1872 he removed to New York city, and was graduated at Bellevue hospital medical college in 1873. Dr. Wyeth practised as a physician and surgeon until 1882, and since that time has devoted himself to surgery. He was assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Bellevue hospital medical college in 1873-'6, and in 1874-'7 prosector to the chair of anatomy, also during the same years instructor in anatomy, physiology, and materia medica. He was the founder of the New York polyclinic and hospital, in which he became professor of surgery and secretary of the faculty. This was the first post-graduate medical school in this country, having been organized in 1880-'1 and opened in 1882, and had in its attendance, until the winter term of 1888-'9, more than 1,400 practitioners of medicine. Dr. Wyeth was president of the New York pathological society in 1885-'6. The Bellevue alumni association prize was awarded to him in 1876 for an essay on "The Surgery and Surgical Anatomy of the Tibio-Tarsal Articulation," and he received the first prize of the American medical association in 1878 for an essay on " The Surgical Anatomy and Surgery of the Carotid Arteries" and the second prize in the same year for an essay on "The Surgical Anatomy and Surgery of the Innominate and the Subclavian Arteries." He has published "Essays on Surgical Anatomy and Surgery" (New York, 1879), and a " Text-Book on Surgery" (1887).