"On my entrance," says Dr. Pryer, " he called out, 'doctor, I have a broken arm.' Proceeding to examine the arm very tenderly, fearful of giving pain, I said, 'are you sure it is broken? ' 'Oh, yes,' said he, ' see here,' and he shook the elbow to and fro again and again, until the broken bones grated against one another in a manner that produces a shudder to this day when the sensation comes back to me. The doctor's scientific interest in proving the fracture was so great that it overcame entirely all sense of pain."

As a surgeon Dr. Moulton was bold and skilful, but it was as an obstetrician that he most excelled, and he is said to have assisted at the birth of more children than any other jihysician in the county. He

1 Biographical sketcli liy William S. Stanley, M.D., JIamaroneck. - Biographical sketch Ijy Setli Shove, M.D.

3 Biographical sketch read before the Westchester County Medical Society, February 17, 1874, by Dr. William C. Pryer.

THE MEDICAL

was an accomplished botanist and drew many of bis medicines from native plants gathered in his daily walks. It is not known at what date he became a member of the Westchester Counter County Medical Society, but since 1831 he held the following offices:

Kleoteil in 1831, censor; 1833-34, treasurer; 1838, vice president ; 183C-37, president ; 1838, censor; 1841, essayist for fall meeting; 1842, coniniittee to draft rate bill, serving with Drs. Livingstone Koe and Gates ; ISoI, reported a case of puerperal peritonitis, treated by " opium alone;" 1852, censor; 1853, vice-president and committee to report on "Ship Fever;" 1854, vice-president; 1855, committee on surgery; 1857, essayist, also committee on Indigenous Medical Botany and served on this committee six years ; 1858, delegate to American Jledii iil Association ; 18(>3, vice-president and delegate to American Jledical Association ; 18(iG, delegate to American Medical Association.