Walter Sands Mills

MILLS, WALTER SANDS, New York city, lecturer on practice of medicine, New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, associate editor of the "North American Journal of Homœopathy," is a native of the city of New York, born in 1865, son of Robert J. Mills and Mary F. Reed, his wife ; and inherits Scotch-Irish blood from his father, while his mother's ancestors for ten generations have been New Englanders. Dr. Mills acquired his earlier education in the New York public schools, his higher education in Harvard and Yale colleges, and his medical education in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and the New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital, from the latter of which he graduated in 1889. Since he came to his degree, Dr. Mills has been actively identified with the practice of medicine largely in New York city, and in connection therewith has been associated with hospital and college work in various capacities ; interne at Ward's Island Homœopathic Hospital, 1889-1890, and Brooklyn Homœopathic Hospital, 1890-1891. From 1891 to 1896 he lived and practiced in Stamford, Connecticut, and returned permanently to New York in 1897. He was lecturer on anatomy in his alma mater one year, and since 1903 has been lecturer on practice of medicine in that institution. Since 1897 he has been a member of the editorial staff of the North American Journal of Homœopathy, and its associate editor since 1902. He was medical inspector of the department of health from 1899 to 1901, and was member of the 7th regiment, N. G. S. N. Y., from 1887 to 1893. Dr. Mills' hospital appointments, other than those previously noted, include that of physician to the department of the heart and lungs, New York Homœopathic Medical College Dispensary, 1890-1891 ; physician to Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary, 1899-1905 ; chief of clinic, 1902-1905 ; physician to Metropolitan Hospital, department of public charities, since 1897 ; physician to Hahnemann Hospital since 1903, and physician to Flower Hospital since 1904. He was secretary of the Connecticut State Homœopathic Medical Society in 1895 and 1896, and since his return to New York has served as president of the Academy of Pathological Science and of the New York Homœopathic Materia Medica Society ; secretary of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the County of New York, and secretary of the medical board of Metropolitan Hospital. Since 1887 he has been a member of the Harvard Club of New York. Dr. Mills married, October 25, 1893, Sylvie DeLong, by whom he has two children.