Dr. Breakey Elected President

Dr. William F. Breakey, of this city, was unanimously elected president of the State Medical society at the meeting in Detroit last Friday.  The Detroit Journal, in speaking of his election says:

"The doctor is an authority on surgery.  He was a voluntary surgeon in the army from 1862 to 1864, serving in the southwest after the battle of Shiloh, and afterwards in the Army of the Potomac with the Sixteenth Michigan infantry.  He was in charge of the hospital at Alexandria, Va.: also, of a hospital and Gettysburg in July, 1863.  In 1868-9 he was demonstrator of anatomy and prosecutor of surgery of the University of Michigan, and since 1890 has been lecturer on dermatology.  He is a charter member of the Washtenaw County Medical society and has been a member of the State Medical society, of which he is now president, since 1876."