Beard

Beard, GEORGE MILLER, an American physician, born May 8, 1839, in Connecticut, studied at Andover and Yale, and served during the war as an assistant-surgeon in the navy. In 1866 he settled in New York as a specialist in nervous diseases, on which he lectured for some years at the university. Besides suggestive books on eating and drinking, stimulants and narcotics, hay fever, sea-sickness, and sexual neurasthenia, Beard produced a valuable work on American Nervousness (1881), basing his results on the climate and mode of life in America. He died 23d January 1883.