MINER, Thomas, physician, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 15 October, 1777; died in Worcester, Massachusetts, 23 April, 1841. iIe was graduated at Yale in 1796, taught in Goshen, New York, and studied law, which in 1803 he abandoned for medicine. In the spring of 1807 he began practice at Middletown, and in the autumn of 1808 settled at Lynn, Massachusetts In 1809 a malignant epidemic called spotted fever prevailed in the Connecticut valley, and in combating it he adopted a new method of treatment, which was the cause of much discussion. His infirm state of health prevented his engaging in the active pursuit of his profession otherwise than in a desultory manner. He was a founder of Yale medical school and of the Connecticut retreat for the insane, and was president of the Connecticut medical society in 1834-'7. Dr. Miner contributed to periodicals "biographical sketches of Connecticut physicians, medical essays, and translations from French medical works. With Dr. William Tully he published "Essays upon Fevers and other Medical Subjects" (Middletown, 1823) and "Account of Typhus Syncopalis" (1825).