WATERMAN, Sigismund, physician, born in Bruck, Bavaria, 22 February, 1819. He was educated in Erlangen, Bavaria, and was graduated in medicine at Yale in 1848. His professional life has been passed chiefly in New York, where he has engaged in general practice. In 1857 he was appointed police surgeon, which place he filled for nearly thirty years, and during the civil war he was made one of the draft surgeons. Dr. Waterman became consulting physician in 1875 to the Home for aged and infirm Hebrews, and is now medical director of that institution. He has devoted special attention to the use of the spectroscope in the practice of medicine, and has been successful in its application. During 1868 he lectured on that subject before the medical societies of New York, and he has since spoken elsewhere on the same topic. He is a member of various medical societies and has contributed to the literature of his profession. Among his papers are " Practical Remarks on Scarlatina " (1859) ; " Therapeutic Employment of Oxide of Zinc" (1861); "Spectral Analysis as an Aid in the Diagnosis of Disease" (1869); "' The Blood-Crystals and their Physiological Importance" (1872); "Spectral Analysis of Blood-Stains" (1873);"The importance of the Spectroscope in Forensic Cases" (1874) ; and "Revivification" (1884).