Lewis B. Hill, M.D—1894-1958

On the morning of February 4, 1958, Dr. Lewis B. Hill died very suddenly in his home at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. He was born in 1894 and would have been sixty-four on February 18. At the time of his sudden and completely unexpected death he was sitting in his library discussing a patient with a younger physician whom he had been directing. His life suddenly stopped while he was in full motion in the midst of the activity he truly loved.

To everyone who knew Lewis over the years as I did an In Memoriam would be incomplete which failed to adumbrate his vital personality, his love of teaching and his pioneer role in building up psychoanalysis in the Baltimore and Washington area.

His was a personality which was always in "full motion, " without the ability to be aloof or unconcerned. In an informal group at home or club, with a circle of students in seminar or class, or at a scientific or committee meeting, he was always at the center, because of a magnetic attraction which turned everyone toward him. He taught and charmed at the same time and made learning an intimate, provocative experience.

The history of psychoanalysis in Baltimore until recent years would be mostly covered in a biographical sketch of Lewis B. Hill. He was born at Lima, Ohio, on February 18, 1894, and received his college education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 1916 he completed his education at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va., where he received his medical degree. He then took training in surgery at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Richmond, Va., and also spent some time in hospitals in Cleveland and North Carolina.

Although he liked medicine in many of its aspects, he very soon initiated the psychiatric career for which he was so well fitted, at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. After working as senior assistant physician at Foxborough State Hospital, he became assistant superintendent at Worcester State Hospital in 1924. He became very active in the deve