Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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DEDICATION fX THK hear ul,.,. thou l ilunlimc-nl ol .■ is enLT.ived llie portrait of a man n unhc-ralclecl and unsung, is still to us the line in man. We pause to examine this ce a rugacd man, his kinillv face etched and mciils and his hair streaked with the ol advancing vears and responsil.ililics. With purity and holiness ' he carncs out the loltv .deals ol his chnsen art of healing. No night is larU, no storm rages too herccly but that when the call c comes he buttons h,s old coat ab.uit him, pulls on his fraved n .-.nd resolutely goes lorth to stay the grim, col l hand of death. Too olten the only reward lor his sleepless niglits and weary days spent on tter cnilless vigils is that feeling of profound satisfaction that is his when he sees some life snatched back from the very edge of the Great Bevond by his efforts. Tired, overworked, many times underpaid, still he cheerlully carries the caduceus forward on high, not failing to contribute his share to the new discoveries of science, for was it not from such as he that man learned the use of the great anaesthetic, ether? And the cause and methods of combatting dreaded malaria? We ponder over this portrait of a man and then fondly and reverently to that friend and servant of suffering humanitv, the Countrv Doctor, we dedicate this volume of the X-R, v.

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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA E STUDENT BODY

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FOREWORD I T is the aim of the X-Ray Staff to give the student body a volume vithin whose pages will live again the pleasant days of mmgled vork and play at old M.C.V., and vhich will carry on through the years a touch of the glorious spirit, not only of our college, but of that science vhich the Medical College of Virginia represents — the healins: of the sick. GEORGE BEN JOHNSTON, M. D, MEDICAL COLLEGE oF VIRGINIA 1853-1916 13r. GEORGE BEX JOHNSTON, 18.53-1916. was a native of Tazewell. Virginia. Coming, on both sides, from distinguished families of pioneers, lawyers, statesmen, and physicians. Dr. Johnston inherited splendid qualities of mind and body together with the polish and culture of the true gentleman. After studying medicine at the University of Virginia and the University of New York, he started practice in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. But in a few years he moved to Richmond and devoted his professional life to surgery, becoming in after years professor of surgery at the Medical College of Virginia, president of the American Surgical Association, and the founder of five hospitals. His strength of character and graciousness of personality made him one of the most admired and beloved men of his time.