John Thomas Metcalfe, M.D. Click on image to enlarge   U. S. Military Academy, July 1839, 2nd Lieut.  Resigned May 31, 1840.   Dr. Metcalfe, who died of old age on January 30, at his home in Thomasville, Ga., was for many years one of New York's most noted physicians. The son of a physician, he was born in Natchez, Miss., on July io, 1818, and was educated at West Point, where he was graduated in 1838. He was, for a time, Lieutenant in the Artillery Service, but was soon transferred to the Ordnance Department. He resigned from the army in 1840, and began the study of medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1844. After graduation he studied in the schools of Dublin, Edinburgh, Vienna, and Paris, and then returned to practiced his profession in this city.   He was the first of a line of Southerners who have contributed so largely to the medical forum of New York. For many years he was in partnership with Dr. T. G. Thomas; afterward with Dr. William M. Polk, and still later with Dr. J. S. Ward. He was prominent as a teacher and expounder of medicine in college and medical society. He lectured for many years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and to the end held the post of emeritus professor of clinical medicine there. He was consulting physician to Roosevelt, Bellevue, St. Luke's and the Woman's hospitals, the Orthopedic Dispensary, and the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled. He was an active member of many medical societies, among which may be mentioned the New York Medical and Surgical Society, the County Medical Society, the New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, the New York Pathological Society, the Academy of Medicine, and the Medical Journal Association of the City of New York. He was one of the earliest members of the academy and gave to it his large and valuable library upon his retirement from practice about fifteen years ago. The portrait of him at the academy was presented by Dr. Thomas, his former associate. U. S. Military Acad., July 1838—2nd Lieut. Resigned May 31, 1840, M. D. Univ. of Pa., 1843, Attg. Phys. to Bell. Hosp. from 1847 to 1859; to N. Y. Hosp. for Lying-in Women from 1850 to 1860 ; to N. Y. City Hosp., 1857. Consulting Phys. to Bell. Hosp. since 1859 ; to N. Y. Deaf and Dumb Inst. since 1851 ; to St. Luke's Hosp. since 1853; to Child's Nursery and Hosp., from 1855 to 1860; to Stranger's and Roosevelt Hospitals ; to the N. Y. Inst for Ruptured and Cripples, and to the Orthop. Disp., N. Y. Prof. Inst. and Pract. Med. in Med. Dept. Univ. City of N. Y. from 1854 to 1866. Prof. of Clinical Med. in Coll. Phys. and Surg.