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Maxwell, George Troup

soldier, physician, author, was born Aug. 6, 1827, in Bryan county, Ga. In 1848 he graduated from the medical department of the university of the city of New York.

Until 1857 he practiced medicine in Tallahassee, Fla., when he was appointed surgeon of the marine hospital at Key West. In 1860 he became professor of obstetrics in the Oglethorpe Medical college of Savannah; but a year later he enlisted as a private in the first Florida regiment, and was subsequently promoted to brigadier-general. In 1866 he was elected to the Florida state legislature; and since 1871 has made Middletown, Del., his home. He claims to have invented the laryngoscope independently several months before Professor Czermach announced his discovery. He has published pamphlets on Malarial, Hæmoglobinuria; The Negro Problem; and An Address on Municipal Hygiene. He is a member of the leading medical bodies of America and Europe.