[From the New York Medical Journal for January, 1867.J 
DEATH OF DR. HORACE GREEN. 
Died, at his residence, at Sing Sing, on the Hudson, on the 29th 
day of November, Dr. Horace Green, in the sixty-fourth year of his 
age. Dr. Green was born in the town of Chittenden, Vermont, on 
the 24th of December, 1802. He was of the seventh generation 
of his family in this country. His father and three brothers served 
in the army during the revolutionary war, his father being the only 
one of the brothers who survived that struggle. Dr. Green studied 
medicine in the office of his brother, who was a practitioner of repu- 
tation in Rutland, Vt., and was graduated at Middlebury in 1824, 
in the institution subsequently known as the Castleton Medical Col- 
lege. After his graduation he practiced medicine in connection with 
his brother in Rutland, until the fall of 1830, when he went to Phil- 
adelphia, where he passed the winter in attendance upon the lec- 
tures at the University of Pennsylvania. Returning the following 
spring to Rutland, he continued to practice there till 1835, when he 
removed to New York, where he has since resided. In 1838 he visited 
Europe, and shortly after his return to New York, in the same year, 
he commenced his investigations into the pathology and treatment of 
those diseases of the air passages, with which subject his name is so 
indissolubly associated. From 1840 to 1843 he was connected with 
the Medical College in Castleton, Vt., as professor and president of 
the faculty, lecturing upon the Theory and Practice of Medicine. In 
1850 he united with several distinguished medical gentlemen in found- 
ing the New York Medical College. In this institution lie also occu- 
pied the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine, and was elected 
to the presidency both of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees. 
He continued to lecture in this college till I860, when he was elected 
Emeritus Professor, retiring at that time from active participation in 
the duties of a teacher. 
He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Union College, 
Schenectady, and in 1853 the degree of LL.D. from the University of 
Vermont, at Burlington. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society and of the Society of the Cincinnati. 2 
In 1854 he established, in connection with his colleagues of the 
college, the American Medical Monthly, with the editorial department 
of which he was connected till 1857, continuing to contribute to its 
pages, however, until it was suspended, in 1862. 
Dr. Green was a member of several learned societies, both at home 
and abroad, to many of which he contributed valuable papers. Among 
these, which were subsequently published in the medical journals of the 
day, may be enumerated: Observations on the Influence of Malarious 
Atmosphere in the Prevention and Cure of Phthisis Pulmonalis (N. 
Y. Journal of Med. & Surg., Jan., 1840). On the Effects of Ergota 
in Parturition, with cases (N. Y.,Journ. of Med. and Surg, Jan., 
1841). Treatment of Epilepsy (N. Y. Med. Gaz., March, 1853). On 
the Subject of Priority in the Medication of the Larynx and Trachea 
(American Medical Monthly, April, 1854). Some Important Obser- 
vations on Aphonia, arising from Organic Lcsions'( American Medical 
Monthly, August, 1854). Remarks on Croup and its Treatment 
(American Medical Monthly, June, 1854). On the Employment of In- 
jections into the Bronchial Tubes and into Tubercular Cavities of the 
American Medical Monthly, January, 1855). Report on the 
Use and Effect of Applications of Nitrate of Silver to the Throat, 
either in Local or General Disease (Trans. American Medical Asso- 
ciation, 1856). Lesions of the Epiglottic Cartilage (American Medi- 
cal Monthly, October, 1857). Croup, its Treatment by Cauterization 
and Catheterism of the Larynx (American Medical Monthly, Feb- 
ruary, 1859). On the Difficulties and Advantages of Catheterism of 
the Air Passages in Diseases of the Chest (American Medical Monthly, 
February, 1850). 
Ilis published works, written while pursuing an extensive and la- 
borious practice, were: A Treatise on Diseases of the Air Passages, 
1846, which has reached the third edition. The Pathology and 
Treatment of Croup, 1849. On the Surgical Treatment of Polypi of 
the Larynx and (Edema of the Glottis, 1852. Selections from the 
Favorite Prescriptions of Living American Practitioners, 1858, which 
has received a French translation. A Practical Treatise on Pulmo- 
nary Tuberculosis, 1864. 
Few men in the profession of medicine in this country have attracted 
so much attention to their professional career as did Dr. Green. An- 
nouncing, in his earlier writings, a plan of treatment for diseases of 
the air passages which was at once regarded as “ bold and novel,” it 
met, naturally, much skepticism and opposition. This induced dis- 
cussion, and from discussion arose a more thorough investigation 3 
into the subject in dispute. An impetus was given to the study of 
laryngeal diseases, and, as a result, the means of their diagnosis and 
treatment have been immeasurably increased. 
Dr. Green lived to see the views he promulgated thoroughly proved 
by the aid modern science has placed in our hands. Fearless by nature, 
and endued with a strong religious sentiment, he gave to the study of his 
profession a sincere earnestness, which is apparent in all his writings. 
A part also of his religious character was his faith, and this too was 
plainly observed in his professional life as well as in his daily walk and 
conversation. lie believed in the sacredness of his stewardship, and 
labored to fulfill its duties. A long and weary illness, the result of 
over-labor, terminated his life.