K3 Cyrus F. Horine, was born 1897 in Myersville, Maryland, and died February 26, 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Blanche Lee Martin September 17, 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland. Blanch was born January 19, 1898, and died July 28, 1961. One child.

Dr. Cyrus F. Horine, a practicing physician who combined teaching, research, inventiveness and public service with his 42 year career as a surgeon, dies yesterday at Union Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Horine, who was 68 had entered the hospital lateTuesday. He had been a practicing surgeon here since 1922 and was on the staffs of University, St. Agnes, South Baltimore General, and Union Memorial Hospitals. Since 1926 Dr. Horine had served as associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Medical Director

At the time of his death he was medical director of the Maryland State Police and consultant surgeon for the Maryland State Roads Commission and the Maryland Training School for Boys. During World War II, Dr. Horine conducted a study for the State aimed at minimizing an imbalance caused by military needs. of the types of physicians remaining in practice and the needs of the civilian population. Much of Dr. Horine's work was in the field of research which he published in medical journals. He was one of the first physicians to measure between the walls of the heart and the pericardium, a thin membrane which covers the organ.

Much Research

A specialist in abdominal surgery, he did considerable research on blood vessels and the intestinal tract, with particular emphasis on wounds, suture materials, and tumors which caused intestinal obstructions. Dr. Horine turned an inventive knack into a professional hobby through extensive research in the field of medical materials and instruments. He held a number of patents for suture materials and dispensers, the end products of which are being used today in many operating rooms. Born in Myersville, in Frederick County, Dr. Horine attended Western Maryland College and in 1915 was graduated from St. Johns College Annapolis.

University Hospital

He received his medical degree four years later from the University of School of Medicine and served his internship and residency at University Hospital from 1919 to 1922. Dr. Horine was a member of the Baltimore City Medical Society, the Medical and Chirurical Faculty of Maryland, the American Medical Association , the American Academy of Medicine and Surgery, and the Southern Medical Association. He made his home in the 3200 block of Cloverhill Road. Surviving are his son Cyrus F. Horine, Jr., a brother Alvey Horine, a sister, Mrs. C. A. Ruppersberger and three grandchildren. "

Baltimore Sun, May 24, 1935

In a follow up to the obituary of a Dr. Frank C. Bressler of Baltimore, Maryland, appearing in the Baltimore Evening Sun, May 24, 1935; it was reported that Dr. Bressler, a noted Physician/Philanthropist who became very wealthy through stock market investments, bequeathed $1,000.000,00 to the University of Maryland Medical School.

The story relates the following: That he used to come here to the University Hospital to see his patients and became impressed with the work that Dr. Cyrus Horine was performing. "Dr. Horine has been doing splendid work and Dr. Bressler had observed it." stated Dr. Arthur M. Shipley, head of the surgery department. The money was to provide facilities for research.

In Memoriam

Cyrus F. Horine
1897-1964

On February 28, 1964, Dr. Cyrus F. Horine, Associate Professor of Surgery in the School of Medicine since 1936, died in Union Memorial Hospital. All of his many students, friends, and associates lament the passing of the able surgeon with a warm and scintillating personality. He loved the abundant life of warm friendship and radiated charm and kindness in his winsome smile.

Dr. Horine was born in Myersville, Md., in 1897. He attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine and graduated in 1919. He became Dr. Arthurs M. Shipley's first intern in surgery. He served as resident surgeon from 1920 to 1922. He enjoyed the esteem of his colleagues and his capabilities brought him increases in rank in the Department of Surgery. In 1936 he became Associate Professor and retained that rank at the time of his death.

During his close association with the Department of Surgery, Dr. Horine engaged in several research projects. He was gifted with an inquiring intellect and more than 25 publications resulted from his researches. His work with the late Dr. C. G. Warner, published in the American Journal of Physiology on pulmonary artery pressures, represented the first time that pulmonary artery presssures were measured in the closed chest without disturbing the intrapleural pressure.

Dr. Horine enjoyed an extensive surgical practice. His patients loved him. He was honest and had an unusual capacity for making the patient feel that he had a high stake in getting him well. Among his many fiends was the late Dr. Frank C. Bressler, and it was Dr. Horine who persuaded Dr. Bressler to leave his fortune to the medical school and establish the Bressler Building and the Bressler Research Fund. We owe this great research opportunity that the school has enjoyed over the ever-lengthening past to the persuasive influence of Dr. Horine and his friend, Dr. Bressler.

Upon the death of Dr. Howard Bubert, Dr. Horine became the Medical Director of the Maryland State Police. He was also consultant physician to the State Roads Comission.

Dr. Horine was a Presbyterian and the First Church in Baltimore (?). Like a suit of the finest fabric, he wore his religion on the street, in the home, in the office, and in the operating room. It not only became him but adorned him. We who knew him closely are better men because he walked among us in loving kindness and mercy. We have faith that somewhere, beyond the morning cloud, in the infinite azure of the heavens, his kind and indomitable spirit marches on, declaring "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith."

John C. Krantz, Jr.
Vol 49, No. 2

Blanche Lee Martin
Bulletin of Nurses Alumnae Association
Class of 1921
January 19, 1898 - July 28, 1961

"Blanche Lee Martin Horine was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on January 19, 1898. She spent her childhood and youth in North Carolina and graduated from the Greensboro, N. C. High School in 1918. Later the same year she entered the University of Maryland School of Nursing from which she graduated in 1921. From her graduation until her passing, her professional interest was in the School of Nursing, the University Hospital, and the Nurses Alumnae Assiciation."

Child of Cyrus Horine and Blanche Martin is:

L1 Cyrus F. Horine, Jr.