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Excerpt from Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical Association, Vol. 33: For the Year 1917 Dr. Edward W. Schauffler, a charter member of this Association, was born on September 11, 1839, in Vienna, Austria, where his father. Rev. William Gottlieb Schauffler, D.D., one of the pioneer American missionaries at Constantinople, Turkey, was spending a year. His mother, Mary Reynolds Schauffler, came from Longmeadow, Mass., of Puritan stock. His early boyhood years were spent in Constantinople, and at the age of twelve, having even then acquired a knowledge of several Oriental languages, including Turkish, he acted as interpreter to the commanding General of the British Army in the Crimea. Later he served as an attache in the American Embassy at Constantinople, and then came to this country to complete his education at Williams College. He left college to study medicine, at first under a preceptor, and later at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. This work was interrupted at the outbreak of the Civil War, by his joining the 127th New York Volunteers as First Lieutenant. He served through the war, coming out as Captain. As a member of the staff of General Schimmelpfenig, he was the first Federal officer to enter Charleston when it was taken by the Northern armies. At the close of the war, he finished his medical education, graduating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1868. He served as house physician at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and at the conclusion of that service he took up practice in Kansas City, Mo., then a town of about 25,000 inhabitants. He continued in active practice in Kansas City until his death from angina pectoris on October 29, 1916, after an illness of only a few days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.