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. He has also held the office of president of the village of Sing Sing, and was for several years physician and surgeon of the State Prisons at Sing Sing, for both males and females. For twenty years he was brigade-surgeon, N. Y. S. M., and, for a like period, United States examining surgeon in the Pension Bureau.
On several occasions he served as a volunteer surgeon for the United States Sanitary Commission, after the great battles of the Rebellion, and also as medical director of a floating hospital.
His professional essays which have been thus far printed amount to not less than one thousand octavo pages. They embrace a variety of interesting topics; among them are the following titles : '' Biographical Sketches of Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y." (1861) ; " On the Animal Substances employed as Medicines by the Ancients" (1862); " Diploteratology," or an essay on " Double-Monsters " (Trans, of the Med. Soc. of the State of y. Y., 1865-68) ; "A Brief History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood " (Pop.