[Reprinted from the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Journal 
for February, 1895.] 
MINUTE ON THE DEATH OF DJ&f WILLIAM GOODELL.* 
By William H. Parish, M. D. 
The son of a missionary clergyman, reared under moral and re- 
ligious influences, educated within the walls of Williams College, 
William Goodell imbibed as a boy, and possessed as a man, the cour- 
age of conviction and the fearlessness of action in the right, which 
rendered his life as a private man and his career as a physician above 
the innuendoes of suspicion, and impregnable to the aspersions and 
the accusations of opposition and envy. 
A graduate of Jefferson Medical College, his name belongs in the 
list of the deservedly eminent men to be found among the alumni of 
this institution ; and he well merited the graceful compliment of the 
degree of LL. D. conferred upon him by this his alma mater. 
For years the Professor of Gynaecology in the University of 
Pennsylvania, he brought to this institution, the pride of American 
medical colleges, no little additional renown because of his erudition 
as a scholar, his abilities as an operator, and the forcefulness and the 
thoroughness of his methods as a teacher. In the medical profession 
at large, as a gynaecologist and as a learned man, he attained an emi- 
nence comparable to that of Atlee or Sims, and not surpassed by 
that of any of his able colaborers who have survived him in the field 
of active professional work. 
An influential founder of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, 
twice its honored president, and a member who for years contrib- 
uted very largely to the value of its proceedings, we the members of 
this Society deeply regret that Dr. Goodell has passed from among 
us; but we wreath his memory with thoughts of the ripe scholar, the 
successful surgeon, the graceful writer, the facile speaker, the strong 
and courteous debater, stronger because courteous, the faithful friend 
and the honorable man. 
* Read before the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, January 3, 1895.