Obituary

Walker G. Wylie, M. D., gynecologist and famous surgeon, died on March 13, 1923, at his home in New York City. He was born at Chester, N. C. in 1849. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and after the war entered the University of South Carolina. Later he received his medical degree from Bellevue Medical College. The next year he studied hospital construction and nurses training abroad and it was from his reports that the first nurses school was established in the United States. Dr. Wylie was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York County Medical Society, the New York Pathological Society, the New York Obstetrical Society, the American Gynecological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine in London and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.