TRALL, Russell Thacher, physician, born in Vernon, Tolland County, Connecticut, 5 August, 1812; died in Florence, New Jersey, 23 September, 1877. He was brought by his parents to western New York when he was a child, and for several years worked on a farm. He afterward studied medicine, began practice, and settled in New York city in 1840, where he became a hydropathist. In 1843 he founded an establishment in that city for the water-cure treatment, and opened, in connection with it in 1853, a medical school for both sexes, which was chartered in 1857 under the title of the New York hygeio-therapeutic college. It was afterward removed to Florence, New Jersey He edited the "New York Organ," a weekly temperance journal, and the "Hydropathic Review," a quarterly magazine, from 1845 to 1848, was also the editor of other medical journals, and the author of "Hydropathic Encyclopedia" (New York, 1852); "New Hydropathic Cook-Book" (1854) ; "Prize Essay on Tobacco" (1854); "Uterine Diseases and Displacements" (1855); "Home Treatment for Sexual Abuses" ; "The Alcoholic Controversy" (1856) ; " The Complete Gymnasium" (1857) ; "Illustrated Family Gymnasium" (1857); " Diseases of the Throat and Lungs "(1861) ; "Diphtheria" (1862) ; "Pathology of the Reproductive Organs" (1862);" The True Temperance Platform, or an Exposition of the Fallacy of Alcoholic Medication" (1864-'6); "Hand-Book of Hygienic Practice" (1865) ; "Sexual Physiology" (1866 ; London, 1867) ; "Water-Cure for the Million" (1867); " Digestion and Dyspepsia" (1874) ; "The Human Voice" (1874) ; and "Popular Physiology" (1875).