This is the secret of his preference for rural and village life, instead of the allurements of a city practice. The principal portion of his office pupilage was under the direction of Dr. Nelson Nivison, then of Mecklenburgh, Tompkins County, N. Y., now professor of physiology and pathology in the Medical Department of the Syracuse University. Dr. Fisher attended his first courses of medical lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, at which time Austin Flint, Sr., Frank Hastings

Hamilton, James P. White and other celebrated professors gave character to this excellent school of medicine. He next attended the lectures and demonstrations at the Medical Department of the University ol the City of New Yoi'k, where Mott, Pattison and Draper were the great luminaries of science and practice. Here he graduated in the class of 1849. Immediately thereafter he entered into a copartnership with his preceptor. In 1851 he removed to Sing Sing, where he has continued his practice to the present time. In his time he has performed most of the important operations of surgery, including amputations, trephining, ovariotomy, the Ctesarean section, the removal of uterine fibroids, and, on two occasions, the ligation of the common carotid artery, with successful results. He has been the recipient of many honors, among which was the honorary degree of Master of Arts, in 1859, from Madison University ; twice the presidency of the Medical Society of Westchester County; in 1864, vicepresident of theMedical Society of the State of New York, and in 1874 president of the same ; corresponding member of the Boston Gynaecological Society ; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine ; member of the New York Lyceum of Natural History ; corresponding member of the New York Historical Society ; permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and of the American Medical Association ; delegate from the Medical Society of the State of New York to the International Medical Congress in Philadelphia, in 1876, etc.