At the regular meeting of the New Orleans Medical aud Surgical Asso-
ciation, held October 13th,  Surgeon Harvey E. Brown, U. S. Army, made
a brief address,  eulogistic of the  life  and services of the late Surgeon-
General Charles H. Crane, U. S. Army, who died in Washington, October
10th.   Dr. Salomon  moved,  and  it was unanimously carried, that the
address be  referred to the committee  of publication with the cordial en-
dorsement of the Association.
  The following are»the remarks of  Dr. Brown:

" Mr. Preside?it and (ientlemen of the Association:

  " I rise to beg the privilege of addressing you a few words  of eulogy in
memory of one of our profession who has closed his earthly career during
the past week; one, who, although occupying the highest position under the
Government attainable by a medical man, was so modest and unassuming,
so  indiffeient to the applause of others, apparently  so oblivious of his own
great gifts, that he was but little  known  to  the  profession outside of the
corps of which he was the loved and honored head.   I  refer to Charles H.
Crane, the Surgeon General of the United States Army.
   "General Crane was a native of the State of Rhode Island, but his father
was an old colonel of artillery and his  early years were passed in various
army garrisons, where he doubtless  imbibed that fondness for the military
portion of  his chosen  profession as well as that strictness  of discipline
which were his chief characteristics in after life.
   "Soon  after obtaining his degree he entered the army as Assistant Surgeon
and did good service in  the  closing scenes of the Mexican war.  The sub-
sequent years were chiefly passed in the varied duties of a medical officer
on the frontier, in garrison service,  in Indian campaigns and scouts, always
increasing his  reputation as  a faithful and energetic officer, a skilful sur-
geon,  a learned and humane  physician. The  breaking  out of the  war
found him  on  duty in New  York, whence he was soon transferred to more
active employment, and when the want was felt of great executive ability in
the central office, he was detailed for duty as senior assistant to the Surgeon-
General at  Washington, and --H: is not too much to say that a large portion
of  the wonderful efficiency attained by. the medical department in the last
two years of the war was due to his unflagging  industry,  his  keen  insight
and his wise counsel.  On the reorganization of the army in 1866, he was ap-
pointed Assistant Surgeon-General, a position which he held  for upwards
of  sixteen years, andit is no derogation  to the  great abilities  of  the  la-
mented Barnes to say,  that, to his  great  executive talent,  aided by such
coadjutors  as Woodward, Otis and Billings,  the  Medical Department owes
the proud position which it  occupies to-day in the heart of the profession
at  large.   On the retirement of General Barnes in 1S82 he became  his suc-
cessor, and the Medical Department looked forward to a long career of
prosperity and usefulness  under  his judicious  management.   But it  was
willed differently by  the All-wise Disposer of events.  In the  fnll  prime
of  a vigorous manhood—with all his great intellectual faculties unimpaired
—with his ever active mind still bent on schemes for the improvement and
advancement of the service at large and the corps of which he was the head—
he  has passed away, leaving behind him   T was going to say—nothing but a
memory—but I should rather say, an impeiishable monument in the corps to
whose welfare  he had devoted the best energies of his life.  And this with-
out self-glorification, without any resort to  those petty acts which baser
minds find  it necessary to use, to  bring themselves before  the public gaze.
No reporter interviewed him—no Gazette or Journal chronicled his views
or  opinions—but he went steadily on in the path of  duty, all his work and
all  his life devoted to the corps in which that life had been  passed,  caring
nothing for adverse criticism, so long as he had the approbation of his own
conscience  and furthered the best interests of his department.
  "Those who knew him can well imagine, that he bore the agonies of the
closing hour more than bravely;  that he bore them cheerfully; that ' when
he was struck he gave the ring of the true metal and so died.'
  "Mr. President and gentlemen: Every man is great who greatly lives and
grandly dies.   I feel how inadequately I  have set forth the excellencies and
virtues of this truly great man;  but I  must  not trespass longer on your
time.  I have thought it but  right and proper that I  should say something,
for,
                 " He was my friend, faithful and just to me,
and having  been such, I  lay this humble tribute on his untimely grave." 

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