Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

168 THE CHARLOTTK MEDICAL JOURNAL
ton Medical College in 1886, and was for a Dr. H. M. Young, one of Dothan, Alatime
druggist in Winnsboro. After his bama's most prominent physicians, died at
graduation he spent one year in the city his home in that city July 27th, after a few
hospital at Charleston. Since that time he days illness from dengue fever,
has been a practicing physician of Winns- Dr. Young graduated from the Medical
boro.
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Dr. J S.Osment
Department of the Ihiiversity of Alabama,
r . Mobile, Ala., in 189.3. He was a well-
,
formerly a practicmg ^nowu and much beloved citizen as well as
phys,c,an of Chattanooga, Tenn., died at
the home of his Son m Birmingham, Ala.,
^„ ^„,i„^„^ physician,
'
August 11th. Ur. Oliver Buford. of Cartersville, Ga.,
died at his home on July 28th. The de-
Dr. W. J. Trent, one of the oldest, and best ceased was a very prominent physician, and
known physicians of Cleveland county, N. was, for a number of years, surgeon in the
C, died Sunday, August the 1st, at his United States Army.
home near Earl. He was 76 years old, and Dr. Buford graduated from the Medical
atone time he was a physician of great College of Georgia, with the class of 1881.
prominence.
Dr. Kent Black, a leading physician of
Dr. James McGuire, one of the oldest, Montgomery county, Va., died at his home,
and best known, and most prominent phy- three miles from Blacksburg, August 12th.
sicians of Mocksville, N. C, died at his Death came almost suddenly; before medihome
August 2l8t. He had been in declin- cal aid could reach the place,
ing health for some years, and was com- Dr. Black was a graduate from the Medipelled
to give up his practice some time cal College of Virginia, Richmond, Va.,
ago. class of 1878.
Dr. McGuire graduated from the New
York University, New York City, in 1857. .
Dr. E. L. Marechal, one of the best known
and most prominent physicians of Mobile,
Dr. T. W. Wliltlock, a well-known phy- Ala., died at his home August 19th. He
sician of Unaka Springs, Tenn., died at his had been ill for a long time, and death was
home July 29tli. He was about 60 years not unexpected.
of age. He graduated from the Medical Dr. Marechal was a member of many
Department of the University of Tennessee, local lodges and a member of the Board of
Nashville, Tenn., in 1893. Commissioners of Mobile county. Hegrad-
Dr. C. L. Stevens. d "1 "^ted from Medical College of Alabama,
d f r h If
nd for several years had been editor of the
century a practitionerinSonth Carolina, dieP
Mobile Medical and Surgical Journal.
at his home in Greenville, August 12th. His
death was sudden, and quite a shock to the ..,„„. .»'••
people in and around Greenville. He was Wf"*=^ «'
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surgeon of Hart's battery in the Civil War
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and was at one time president of the South
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well-known phy-
f'^^^f'^l'^^""^^
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Carolina Medical Society. He lived in ^,^,^|^^^f^"^"l^ Wilmington, ^T.,
Barnwell
N.
county until nine years ago, when
C and was one of the
^'^^''^ esteemed citizens of that section
he moved to Greenville. Tl' of the state.
Dr. William Forrester, a well-known Dr. Curtis graduated from Dartmouth
physician of Louisville, Ky., died at his College in 1342, later equipping himself for
home in that city, August 15th. He grad- the medical profession at Howard Univeruated
from the Medical Department of the sity. He was formerly of New Hampshire,
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kv., in coming to North Carolina in 1847 andloca-
1862, and since that time had been a promi- ted in Southport, where he had an extremely
nent practicing physician.
large practice in the town and county.
In 1852 he was appointed acting assist-
Dr. J, P. Rorex, a retired physician of ant surgeon in the Unired States Army,
Scottsboro, Ala., committed suicide at his filling the position for over a year.
home August 8th, using a doublebarrel
shotgun. There was no one present at the
home except the victim when the terrible The Phosphates of Iron, Soda, Lime and
incident occurred. Potash dissolved in an excess of Phospho-
Dr. Rorex was formerly one of the most ric Acid, "s a valuable combination to preprominent
physicians of north Alabama, scribe in Nervous Exhaustion, General Deseveral
years ago. Poor health and dis- bility, etc. Robinson's Phosphoric Elixir
pondency are thought to be the cause of the is an elegant solution of these chemicals,
violent act, (See page xvi).