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Robert Kells was born near Hudson, N. Y., in the year of 1818, and died in Jackson, Miss., April, 1888. He came to Mississippi in 1840 and located at Edwards, Hinds county, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and planting. He married Miss Mary Phillips, January 13, 1846, with whom he lived until her death, June 15, 1871. Dr. Kells always took an active interest in the State Medical association and State Board of health. He was superintendent of the state lunatic asylum for seven years, including the war period. After retiring from this position he engaged in the practice of medicine at Jackson, where he enjoyed the confidence of a large clientage until old age, and his large property interest caused him to give up active practice. He still retained his interest in the State Medical association and a position on the State Board of health until his death.
J. W. Ellis was born in West Point, Miss., in 1851, and graduated when twenty-one years old, with the honors of his class, at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia. He practiced his profession in the Delta up to 1879, when he located in Canton, Miss., where he soon made many warm friends, and built up a lucrative practice. He was married to Miss Adan Lowry in 1875, who with two sweet little girls survives him, and to whom he has left an hon- orable name as a priceless legacy.
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W. W. Hart, son of Henry and Judith P. Hart, was born in Robinson county, Tenn., April, 1828. After receiving a liberal education he studied medicine in Clarksville, Tenn., and gradnated in the University of Louisville in 1849. He then moved to Mississippi and settled in Carrollton, where he remained actively engaged in the practice of his profession until the breaking out of the Civil war. He volunteered and went out with the first company that left Carrollton; was soon after appointed surgeon, in which capacity he served with distinc- tion until the close of the war. After hostilities ceased he returned home and located near Lodi, in Montgomery county, and commenced again the practice of his profession, and remained in active practice until his death, May 27, 1887. He was married three times. Miss Laura A. Peeples, June 4, 1850; Mrs. Mary Laggins, January 11, 1871, and Mrs. A. F. Adair, May 2, 1872. His last wife survives him. He was a good citizen, a kind and indulgent father and husband, an eminent physician and surgeon. He represented his county one term in the state legislature.
The twenty-second annual meeting was held at Jackson April 17, 18, and 19, 1889. The address of welcome was delivered by T. M. Miller, who, after paying a high tribute to the profession, said: "I would speak to you from a politico-legal point of view. You all have your hobbies, so bear with mine. One doctor rides full tilt on quinine; another phos- phates, another mustard, and so on. My hobby, now, or rather what seems to me to be the crying evil of our state and time, is the light esteem in which human life is held in our midst. To you I appeal to help in righting this wrong thing; in bringing about a higher standard in elevating public opinion; in cultivating a popular sentiment against it. You are drawn from the upper classes of society-from the cultivated and refined-yet you not only have access to these, but to all. Your hold on the affections of your patients, your influence in the families where you practice, is unbounded. To whom do they turn for help, counsel, and sympathy but to the family doctor? The radius of that influence extends to the haunt of infamy, where the step of the minister is never suffered; to the den of ignorance, where the schoolmaster has never penetrated; to the retreat of lawlessness, where the officer of the law is baffled. You leave the deathbed of the outlaw, your soul harrowed by his remorse, or shocked by his effrontery, to visit the desolated home of his victim. Who can draw such a moral; who can tell such a tale; who can speak with such dreadful force as you ?"
The officers elected in 1889 were: Dr. J. E. Halbert, Mound Landing, president; Dr. W. A. Evans, Jr., Aberdeen, first vice president; Dr. W. H. White, Brandon, second vice presi- dent; Dr. W. E. Todd, Jackson, recording secretary; Dr. B. D. Cooper, Jackson, assistant recording secretary; Dr. J. F. Hunter, Jackson, treasurer; and Dr. J. M. Buchanan, Meridan, corresponding secretary.
The members of judicial council chosen were: J. E. Halbert, M. D., Mound Landing; B. F. Ward, M. D., Winona; Luther Sexton, M. D., Wesson; W. F. Hyer, M. D., Meridian; B. F. Kittrell, M. D., Black Hawk; E. L. McGehee, M. D., Woodville; J. W. Bennett, M. D., Brookhaven; J. Y. Murry, M. D., Ripley; J. C. Hall; M. D., Anguilla.
The papers read in 1889 are recorded by title and reader as follows: President's address, by Dr. Luther Sexton; Medical legislation, by Dr. B. F. Kittrell; Report of surgi- cal cases, by Dr. J. M. Greene; Some cases in practice, by Dr. John S. Featherston; Pelvic reflexes, by Dr. W. F. Hyer; Treatment of dysentery, by Dr. D. L. Phares; New method of performing hysterectomy, by Dr. T. J. Crofford; Reflex phenomena incident to perineal rupture, by Dr. M. J. Thompson; Therapeutic progress, by Dr. H. H. Haralson; Placenta previa, by Dr. T. W. Fullilove; Penetrating wounds of the cornea, by Dr. W. S. Sims; When is the induction of premature labor justifiable? by Dr. E. L. McGehee; Heroic
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conservatism, by Dr. E. L. McGehee; Amputation on account of diseased joint, by Dr. C. Kendrick; Management of insane asylums, by Dr. T. J. Mitchell; Antagonism of thera- peutic agents, by Dr. B. A. Vaughan; Medicine and law in Mississippi, by Dr. A. J. Jagoe; Mammary tumors, by Dr. W. B. Rogers; Pelvic cellulitis, by Dr. F. B. Nimocks; Scarlet fever, by Dr. P. W. Rowland; and Fever with special reference to its thermogenesis, by Dr. Gus Evans.
The twenty-third annual meeting was held at Jackson, April 16, 17, 18, 1890. Capt. Frank Johnston delivered the address of welcome. He reviewed the history of the profes- sion from a serio-comic point of view, and in his comparison of law and medicine, spoke as follows: "Gentlemen, your profession, like my own, has been the subject of witticisms since the beginning of the world. Some of us might say, though not witty ourselves, we 'are the cause of wit in others.' But the world can not get along without us, laugh and jest as it may. When a man wants a doctor he is like the chap in Texas and the pistol, who said he did not need a pistol often in Texas, but when he did he wanted it bad." The conclusion of his address was an eloquent tribute to physicians.
The papers read before the meeting were the president's annual address, Dr. J. E. Hal- bert; Three cases of orthopedic surgery, Dr. S. K. Coleman; Ligation of femoral artery for popliteal aneurism, Dr. W. M. Paine; Two cases of abdominal tumors, Dr. William Aills; Obstruction of the bowels, Report of two cases, Dr. F. B. Nimocks; Chloroform and alleged double rape in dentist's office, Dr. D. L. Phares; Diseases of the eye in renal disorders, Dr. A. G. Sinclair; Craniotomy, Dr. P. J. McCormick; A few points in the treat- ment of endometritis, Dr. T. J. Crofford; Some cases in gynecological surgery, Dr. T. T. Beall; A rare case of delivery, Dr. B. A. Vaughan; Pelvic abscess, Dr. J. M. Thompson; Pistol ball through left lung-recovery, Dr. B. A. Duncan; Exsection of scaphoid, etc., Dr. M. J. Lowry; Operation for the extraction of hard cataract, and a report of twenty-six cases, Dr. W. S. Sims; Some observations during a visit to Cooper's well, Dr. E. L. McGehee: Malaria, Dr. Gus Evans; A case, Dr. T. P. Lockwood.
The officers for 1890-91 are: G. W. Trimble, M. D., Grenada, president; J. Y. Murry, M. D., Ripley, first vice president; P. W. Rowland, M. D., Flora, second vice president; W. ". E. Todd, M. D., Jackson, recording secretary; B. L. Cully, M. D., Jackson, assistant record- ing secretary; S. K. Coleman, M. D., Canton, corresponding secretary; J. F. Hunter, M. D., Jackson, treasurer.
The members of the judicial council chosen were: W. F. Hyer, M. D., Meridian; B. F. Kittrell, M. D., Black Hawk; E. L. McGehee, M. D., Woodville; each to serve until 1891; J. W. Bennett, M. D., Brookhaven; J. Y. Murry, M. D., Ripley; J. C. Hall, M. D., An- guilla-each to serve until 1892; J. E. Halbert, M. D., Mound Landing; B. F. Ward, M. D., Winona; Luther Sexton, M. D., Wesson-each to serve until 1893.
The deceased members* are named as follows: W. L. Ainsworth, Hazlehurst; William T. Balfour, Vicksburg; P. T. Baley, Jackson; M. S. Craft, Jackson; * F. W. Dancy, Holly Springs; * R. T. Edwards, Vicksburg; * T. B. Elkin, Aberdeen; J. W. Ellis, Canton; E. Fox, Forest; * W. A. Galloway, Jackson; * S. V. D. Hill, Macon; W. W. Hart, Lodi; C. Hoover, McComb City; R. E. Hutchins, Greenville; W. E. Herring, Terry; Robert Kells, Jackson; L. C. Lee, Graysport; * T. J. Lee, Philadelphia; * James McWillie, Jackson; J. A. Mead, Pearlington; C. J. Mitchell, Vicksburg; Thomas L. Neal, Ben Lomond; * William Powell, Grenada; T. A. Phillips, Canton; George C. Redwood, Meridian; L. Richardson, Bolivar Landing; * Sid B. Smith, Grenada; James M. Smith, Eggs Point; J. O. Sanders, Carroll- ton; J. D. Staple, Huntsville; L. White, Utica; A. S. Thompson, Buena Vista.
*Died during the year.
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Dr. Sid B. Smith was born in Tuscaloosa county, Ala., and died of consumption at Lane Park, Fla., May 13, 1889, aged forty-four years. Dr. Smith enlisted in the Confederate army at the early age of fifteen years, and commanded a company of sharpshooters two last years of the war. He was wounded six times during that memorable struggle. After the war he studied medicine and graduated at Mobile Medical college. He went to Grenada at the hight of the yellow-fever epidemic in 1878, and was for seven years a partner of Dr. G. W. Trimble, of that city.
Dr. James McWillie was born in Madison county, Miss., December 21, 1847, and died at his home in Jackson, Miss., March 1, 1890. He was a brave and fearless soldier of the Confederacy, and after the war studied medicine. He graduated with honors in Balti- more in 1870. In 1871 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the state lunatic asylum and retained that position until a few months before his death when he resigned in conse- quence of bad health. He made an efficient officer and was devoted to his profession. Truth, honor and unswerving fidelity to his sense of duty were fixed principles of his life. In 1875 he married Miss Nannie Compton, who, with five children, survive him.
Dr. W. A. Galloway was born in Kosciusko, Miss., February 9, 1851, and died in Jackson, Miss., March 1, 1890, in the thirty-ninth year of his age. He prosecuted the study of his profession in the medical colleges of Louisville, but graduated in New Orleans, having attended his last course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Louisiana. After graduating he was associated with his father in the practice of medicine in Canton, Miss. In 1879 he married Mrs. Bettie Williams, of Jackson, Miss., who survives him. He moved to Jackson in 1883, where he resided at the time of his death. Dr. Galloway was a man of brilliant gifts, and his distinguished ability was recognized by the profession all over the state. He died in the prime of life and in the possession of a large and appreciative patronage.
Dr. William Powell was born in Nottoway county, Va., January 20, 1819. He grad- uated in medicine in Louisville, Ky., in 1838, and afterward graduated in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was an intimate friend of Professor Drake. He began the practice of his profession in Yalobusha county, Miss., in 1839. His distinguished abilities soon won for him a large and lucrative practice. He was at the organization of the State Medical association and was afterward often urged to accept its presidency, but always declined, perferring the labors of a more subordinate position. Modesty was one of his chief characteristics. In the death of Dr. Powell this association has lost one of its most valued friends and honored members. He retired from active work in 1889 and died of prostatitis, February 15, 1890.
Dr. T. B. Elkin was born January 21, 1837. He was educated in the common schools of the neighborhood. He attended his first course of medical lectures in Jefferson Medical college in the winter of 1857-8 and attended the University of the city of New York during the following summer. He graduated at Jefferson Medical college in March, 1860, and attended lectures in New Orleans during the winter of 1860. He was appointed assis- tant surgeon of Forty-third Mississippi regiment and afterward promoted to surgeon. After the war he again attended lectures in New Orleans. One of his colleagues has said of him: "As a practitioner of medicine he was studious, earnest, well informed, eveuly balanced, careful, conscientious and able. As a man he was honest, noble, honorable and true; as husband, father and brother, he was one of the most loving, kind, considerate men I have known." He died on the 9th of March, 1890.
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Lee was born in Farmersville, Ala., August 26, 1840, and died at Philadelphia, Miss., February 14, 1888, aged forty-four years, five months and nineteen R
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days. As a physician Dr. Lee was skillful, popular and unusually successful; as a phy- . sician he was beloved and honored. Being a leading man in his community, his death is sorely felt. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss, and to them we tender our sympathies.
Dr. Joshua C. Fant was born in South Carolina in 1832, and moved with his parents to Noxubee county, Miss., when quite a small boy. Hegraduated in medicine in Charleston, S. C., in 1857, and located in Macon, Miss., where he lived until removed by death, October 25, 1889, fifty-seven years of age. Dr. Fant was a true and faithful Christian, a useful and honored citizen, and a popular and successful physician.
The deaths of Dr. Edwards, of Vicksburg, and Dr. Sherman, of Harrison, were reported in 1890.
Samuel Van Dyke Hill was born in Nashville, Tenn., January 25, 1835, and died in St. Louis, Mo., whither he had gone for medical treatment, October 14, 1889. Dr. Kittrell states: "In his eighth year his father removed the family from Tennessee to Chickasaw county, Miss,, and in this state Dr. Hill resided continuously for forty-six years, except dur- ing his absence in the Confederate army .. He was educated in the schools in his vicinity, and at the Columbus high school. He attended courses of medical lectures at the University of Louisville, and the University of New York, graduating from the latter institution in March, 1857. Until the breaking out of the war he practiced his profession at Palo Alto, Miss. In January, 1861, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the Confederate army, and was appointed to be surgeon in January, 1863; from October, 1862, to the end of the war, he was in charge of Quintard general hospital. October 10, 1861, he married Miss Jennie Calvert, of Chicka- saw county, Miss., who, with true wifely devotion, accompanied him to Virginia, and remained near him during the war. At the close of the war, in October, 1865, he established himself at Macon, Miss, where he remained actively engaged in practice until the inroads of fatal disease compelled him to desist from his labors. He was a member of the State Medical association from its organization after the war until his death, and was elected and served as its president in 1871. He was a member of the American Medical association, having been several times elected a delegate from the State Medical association. He was elected a dele- gate to represent the state association in the International Medical congress that convened at Washington. He was appointed a member of the state board of health at its organization in 1877, and was continuously reappointed at the expiration of each term of his service. He was twice elected president of the board, and was filling that position at the time of his death.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting was held at Meridian in April, 1891; Col. J. R. McIntosh delivered the address of welcome, and the following-named papers were read: Some remarks on fevers, Dr. J. M. Greene; Vessical hemorrhage, Dr. H. A. Gant; Recent advancement in therapeutics, or new remedies, Dr. Chesley Daniel; Infant feeding, Dr. N. L. Clarke; The nose, its diseases and their treatment, Dr. B. M. Bishop; Two cases of external urethrotomy, Dr. J. A. Shackleford; The value of albuminuria in diagnosing dis- eases of the kidney, Dr. J. M. Buchanan; Noise, Dr. B. F. Duke; Glandular disease of strumous character, Dr. R. C. Gulledge; Knife wound penetrating abdominal cavity, Dr. Henry Izard; Laparotomy for gunshot wound of abdomen, Dr. Henry Izard; Phimosis, a report of cases, Dr. E. S. Beadles.
The officers elected for 1891-2 were: J. Y. Murry, M. D., Ripley, president; W. E. Todd, M. D., Jackson, first vice president; N. L. Clarke, M. D., Meridian, second vice presi- dent; H. H. Harralson, M. D., Forest, recording secretary; G. S. Hunter, M. D., Bolton,
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assistant recording secretary; B. F. Duke, M. D., Como, corresponding secretary, and J. F. Hunter, M. D., Jackson, treasurer.
The judicial council chosen comprises J. W. Bennett, M. D., Brookhaven; R. S. Toombs, M. D., Grenada; J. C. Hall, M. D., Anguilla; J. E. Halbert, M. D., Mound Landing; B. F. Ward, M. D., Winona; Luther Sexton, M. D., Wesson; W. F. Hyer, M. D., Meridian; B. F. Kittrell, M. D., Black Hawk; E. L. McGehee, Woodville.
Dr. John Ames Mead was born in Portland, Me., July 16, 1842, and died in New Orleans, La., January 30, 1891. In his infancy his parents moved to Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools and Woburn high school. He afterward attended Amherst college, but left in 1862 to enlist in the Thirty-ninth regiment Massachusetts volunteers. He was taken a prisoner in 1863, and remained such one year. After his release he returned home and finished his collegiate course. He studied medicine in Harvard Medical school, of Boston, from which he graduated in 1869. He came south in October, 1869, and settled in Pearlington, Miss., where he practiced his profession up to death. In 1880 he married Miss Amelia S. Mead, of New Orleans, La., who with two children - a daughter, age nine years, and a son, age six years -mourn his loss.
Dr. James D. Staples was born near Huntsville, Miss., November 13, 1850, and died of pneumonia at Huntsville, Miss. He graduated at the University of Nashville, in the class of 1871. He died in the prime of life and in possession of a large and appreciative patronage. As a physician he was studious, earnest, well informed, evenly balanced, careful, conscien- tious and able, not given to criticism of his professional brethren, " not a man, who for the poor renown of being smart, would leave a sting within a brother's heart."
Dr. F. W. Dancy died November 7, 1890. He was born near Roanoke river, in Warren county, N. C., in the year 1810. Having prepared for college in the classical schools of Huntsville, Ala., and vicinity, he entered the University of Nashville, Tenn., from which he graduated in 1831, beginning soon after the study of medicine under Dr. I. W. Bibb, of Athens, Ala. He matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1832, becoming a private pupil of Prof. W. E. Horner. At the opening of his second course his health was so impaired that, by the advice of Drs. Jackson and Physick, he returned to Alabama. At the end of a year, with recovered health, he entered the medical depart- ment of Transylvania university, in Lexington, Ky., from which he graduated in 1835. He first settled in Greensboro, Ala., where he remained eight years, removing to Holly Springs, Miss., in 1844. He was a member of the Marshall County Medical society, of which he was president, of the State Medical association, sanitary commissioner for the state at large, member of the board of health of the state of Mississippi, organized on the 7th of April, 1877, and a permanent member of the American Medical association. He was married in his twenty-seventh year to Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Mason, of Jackson, Tenn., who died in 1866. The result of this union was eleven children, nine of whom are yet living. In 1876, ten years after the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Kate McCorkle Nelms, who sur- vives him.
The profession of medicine in Mississippi is fast rising to the same position in national estimation which the old bar attained. Throughout the state physicians are found who for two decades have reflected honor on the state and county. The association has exerted a most beneficial influence during the twenty years of its active life, and the time is at hand when the medical and surgical practice of the state must claim the same attention from phy- sicians throughout the country that the Mississippi law reports claim from lawyers.
The system of homeopathic medicine was introduced into the state about the year 1849
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by the late Dr. Davis, of Natchez, and Dr. Harper, of Vicksburg, both allopaths who embraced the homeopathic practice and carried it on with remarkable success until their death within the last half decade. In 1851 Dr. J. W. Hough introduced the practice at Jackson and is to-day the oldest and most successful homeopathic physician in the state. Dr. Hardenstein resided at Jackson for some years, until his removal to Vicksburg after the war, and died there about seven years ago, leaving a large practice and reputation to his son, Dr. Otto Hardenstein. Dr. Gilman, a contemporary of Dr. Harper, died about fifteen years ago. Dr. Gilbert, who died in September, 1891, at Jackson, practiced there for several years.
Dr. Pierce, who settled at Jackson in 1891, is a younger member of the school, being a graduate of the Hahnemann college of Chicago. Dr. French, of Natchez, settled there a short time before the death of the pioneer, Dr. Davis, and Dr. Chase have practiced there for over a quarter of a century.
The names of homeopathic physicians registered are: F. A. M. Davis, the first old school, now homeopathic, B. D. Chase and J. D. Smith, of Adams county; J. W. Hough, Hinds county; J. Galdechens, Hinds county; H. J. Coleman, Jefferson; E. T. Harding, Pike; A. O. Hardenstein, Warren; T. J. Harper, Warren; G. O. Furry, Warren.
The registry of Mississippi physicians dates back only to 1882. Of the total number, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen whose names and records are entered in the books of Secretary Johnston of the board of health, all presented evidence of their right to prac- tice medicine in Mississippi in 1882, with the exception of one who registered in 1884 and fifteen in 1890. In the record the allopathic school is represented by seventeen-eighteenths of the whole number. The eclectic school claims seventy-six members exclusive of those who are both allopathic and eclectic physicians; the homeopathic school claims ten mem- bers, and sundry other schools twenty-six members. The number of physicians in each county, according to the record of 1882, is shown by the following table:
Adams, fifteen; Alcorn, twenty-four; Amite, twenty; Attala, thirty-eight, two in 1890; Benton, twenty-two; Bolivar, seventeen; Calhoun, thirty-one, one in 1884; Carroll, twenty- four, one in 1890; Chickasaw, thirty-five; Choctaw, twenty-one, one in 1890; Claiborne, twenty-seven; Clay, twenty-seven; Clarke, twenty; Coahoma, twenty-one; Copiah, fifty-four; Covington, nine; De Soto, thirty-six; Franklin, seventeen; Greene, four; Grenada, eleven; Hancock, seven; Harrison, eleven; Hinds, fifty-eight; Holmes, forty; Issaquena, eight; Ita- wamba, twenty-four; Jackson, sixteen; Jasper, eighteen; Jefferson, eighteen, one in 1890; Jones, eleven; Kemper, twenty-five; Lafayette, thirty-seven; Lauderdale, thirty-six; Law- rence, twenty-two; Leake, thirty-two; Lee, fifty-four; Lincoln, twenty-five; Lowndes, forty- four; Le Flore, nineteen, two in 1890; Madison, thirty-five; Marion, three; Marshall, forty-one; Monroe, forty; Montgomery, twenty-five, three in 1890; Neshoba, eighteen; Newton, twenty- three; Noxubee, thirty, two in 1890; Oktibbeha, twenty-seven; Panola, fifty; Perry, four; Pike, thirty-five; Ponotoc thirty-four; Prentiss, twenty-four; Quitman, three; Rankin, twenty-six; Scott, twenty; Sharkey, thirteen, one in 1890; Simpson, nine; Smith, eighteen; Sunflower, eight; Tallahatchie, twenty; Tate, thirty-three; Tippah, thirty; Tishomingo, twenty-one; Tunica, seven; Union, twenty-five; Warren, thirty-six, one in 1890; Washington, thirty- seven; two in 1890; Wayne, ten; Webster, twenty-three; Wilkinson, thirteen; Winston, twenty-five; Yalobusha, thirty; Yazoo, forty-two.
The Botanic school enrolls seven members; the mineral school, thirteen; the dosimetric, one; the Esculapian, one; the hydropathic, one, and the idopathic one. Joe Barnes' name appears as herb doctor of Lowndes county and Ned McDuff's as root doctor of Leake county. Among the systems of practice or schools written in the record the following are given:
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