BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. THOMAS F. RUMBOLD. [Reprint from Physicians and Surgeons of America.] THOMAS FRAZIER RUMBOLD. RUMBOLD, Thomas Frazier, St. Louis, Mo., born October 13, 1830, in Aberdeen, Scot- land, is the son of Rev. James and Margaret (Frazier) Rumbold, and a direct descendant of Capt. Richard Rumbold, of the Rye House, near London, Eng. In 1834 his father emigrated from Scotland to Montreal, Canada, landing in May of that year, and the following year removed to Toronto, where he remained until 1837, at which time he removed to Ohio and remained there for two years. Thomas Frazier Rumbold was educated in pri- vate schools in Davenport, la., to which place his father removed in 1839. During the winters of i846-'47 and 1847-48 he taught school, receiv- ing twelve dollars a month, and with the money so earned paid his tuition in the Iowa College, en- tering in the autumn of 1848. While a student in this college he began to read medicine, in March, 1849, under the direction of Dr. James White, and in 1852 commenced the practice of medicine with his preceptor; attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, sessions of i859-'6o and 1861 - '62, receiving the degree of M. D., at the close of the latter term, and was also a private student under Dr. Samuel D. Gross during the winter of i86i-'62, receiving, through the influence of Dr. Gross, the privilege of almost daily examinations of patients in Blockley Hospital, in diseases of the nasal passages, to which he had devoted his atten- tion during the preceding ten years. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Rumbold en- tered the United States medical service, as acting assistant surgeon, serving at the Battle of Pitts- burgh Landing, Tenn., April 7, 8, 1862. Return- ing to St. Louis, he was in the government service at the Fifth-street U. S. General Hospital until December, 1862, and during that time invented a splint for gun-shot fractures of the leg and thigh. From December, 1862, to October, 1865, he served at the U. S. General Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Mo., under Surgeon John H. Randolph, U. S. A. While in this hospital, Dr. Rumbold was instru- mental in forming a medical society composed of the physicians of the post. In October, 1865, he resigned the position of acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., and spent about eight months in private courses on diseases of the ear, eye, and throat, with Drs. Henry D. Noyes and Louis Elsburg, New York city, and also took a private course in the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, receiving its certificate of attendance on lectures on anatomy, pathology and treatment of diseases of the eye, February 22, 1866, a testimonial from the faculty, and a valuable case of eye instruments. Dr. Rumbold opened an office in St. Louis, Mo., in June, 1866, limiting his practice to diseases of the nose, throat, and ears, and since January, 1890, has had a temporary residence in San Fran- cisco, Cal., for the benefit of his health. He is a member of the St. Louis Medical Society; Mis- souri State Medical Association ; American Medi- cal Association ; Medical Society of the County of San Francisco; Medical Society of the State of California; American Rhinological Association; Society of the Surgeons of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Nose, of San Francisco; honorary member of the Colorado State Medical Society; honorary member of the Southeastern Missouri Medical Association; and a delegate to the International Medical Congress, London, 1881, and Copenha- gen, 1884, visiting the hospitals of Europe on those occasions. In 1882 he assisted in the organization of the College for Medical Practi- tioners, a post-graduate medical school, in St. Louis; extinct in 1884. In medical literature, Dr. Rumbold is the au- thor of papers on "The Necessity of Treating Nasal Inflammations to Relieve Throat Troubles," read before the St. Louis Medical Society, 1868; "Treatment of Simple and Ulcerated Rhinitis,'' ibid., 1868; "The Return of the Ability to Speak Concurrent with the Return of the Ability to Hear," ibid., 1868; "Disintegrating Effect of the Normal Secretions of the Eye and Ear upon Hairs and Other Accidental Substances that Fall into these Organs," ibid., 1869; "Hay Catarrh, a Sequence of Nasal Disease," ibid., 1869; "In- sertion of a Hard Rubber Eyelet into the Mem- brana Tympani to Increase the Hearing," ibid., 1869, being a translation of an article by Dr. Politser, of Vienna; "Treatment of Suppurative Inflammation of the Middle Ear," ibid., 1869; "Nasal Polypi," ibid., 1869; "Some of the Se- quences of Nasal Catarrh," ibid., 1869; "Means of Making Local Applications to the Nose, Throat, and Ears," ibid., 1869; "Treatment of the Dis- eased Condition of the Fauces, including the Ton- sils," ibid., 1870; "Removal of a Button from the Larynx by Means of Suction, using a Rubber Tube," ibid., 1870 ; " History of a Case of a Deaf Person Speaking," ibid., 1871 ; " Cleansing the Middle Ear through a Small Perforation of the Membrana Tym- pani," ibid., 1872; "The Functions of the Eus- tachian Tube," four papers, ibid., 1872; "Vase- line as a Remedy for Diseases of the Nasal Pas- sages," ibid., 1872; "Importance of Mild Appli- cations to the Nasal Passages," ibid., 1873 1 "The Value of Non-Irritating Treatment of the Nose, Throat, and Ears,"zW., 1873 j "The Tuning Fork as a Means of Diagnosis of Perforation of the Mem- brana Tympani," ibid., 1874; "The Spray Pro- ducer as a Means of Making Local Applications to the Nose and Throat," ibid., 1874 ; " Tubular Lar- yngeal Forceps," ibid., 1875; "The Functions of the Uvula and Soft Palate," two papers, ibid., 1875; "The Curved Soft Palate Retractor," z7W., 1876; "The Hygiene of the Nose, Throat, and Ears," three papers, ibid., 1876-77; "Is Chronic Nasal Catarrh Curable?" ibid., 1882; "Pruritic Rhinitis," three papers, ibid., i882-'84; "Obser- vations on European Methods of Treatment of the Throat," ibid., 1884 ; " The Effect of Patent Medi- cine on Nasal Catarrh," 1884; "New Medi- cal Names," including ethmoiditis, sphenoiditis, etc., ibid., 1887; "Atrophic Nasal Catarrh," read before the Medical Society of the State of Cali- fornia, 1891 ; "Practical Remarks Relating to the Anatomy of the Nasal Passages and the Connect- ing Passages," ibid., 1892; "Disease is not In- herited," ibid., 1894; "The Relation of Chronic Nasal Inflammation to so-called Nervous Prostra- tion," ibid., 1894; "The Value of Histology in Explaining the Spread of Disease to Different Por- tions of the Body," California Academy of Medi- cine, 1891; and "The Mechanism of Tinnitus Aurium," ibid., 1893. In 1880, Dr. Rumbold published a work on "Hygienic and Sanative Measures for Chronic Catarrhal Inflammation of the Nose, Throat, and Ears," third edition in 1886; in 1885, a work on "Pruritic Rhinitis, (Hay Fever,) Its Medical and Surgical Treat- ment;" in 1881, a work on "The Hygiene and Treatment of Nasal Catarrh," second edition in 1888. In 1878 he purchased the Si. Louis Medi- cal and Surgical Journal, which he edited for eight years, then passed it to his son, Dr. Frank M. Rumbold. Some of his most important inven- tions are the spray producers that treat the entire surface of the nasal passages and throat, in June, 1866; in 1867 the hinged pharyngeal mirror; in 1869 the tongue depressor with three blades; in 1871 the flexible Eustachian catheter; in 1881 the spray controller, etc. Dr. Rumbold has six children : One son, Frank M. Rumbold, M. D. (graduated in the St. Louis Medi- cal College in March, 1884,) and five daughters.