Bland, Thomas A
physician, lecturer, author, was born May 21, 1830, in Bloomfield, Ind. During the civil war he was a surgeon in the army. For twenty years he lived in Washington, D. C., with his wife and coworker, M. Cora Bland, M. D., also a skilful physician and able writer and a popular lecturer. He has been at the head of the Eclectic Medical society of the District of Columbia from the first; was its first president, and was re-elected by unanimous vote seven times since. He is the author of How to Get Well and How to Keep Well, and other works. As a physician and medical author, he has done much for progress in medicine and in a knowledge of the laws of health; and as a public lecturer he ranks high.