Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dr. Hobart A. Hare and Dr. Thornton a splendid prize for work done in inves- tigating the cause of death from Chloroform. Dr. Thornton continued his experiments into the nature and effects of poisons which had met with valuable results in other directions. He conducted an especially searching quest for an antidote for phosphorus poisoning. His independent discovery of the properties of potassium permanganate as an anti- dote was made simultaneously with that of another investigator in the same field, whose results were published prior to Dr. Thornton's, so that Dr. Thorn- ton claims no credit for this accomplishment. Dr. Thornton is a member of the American Medical Association, the Col- lege of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Pathological Society of Philadelphia. He served two terms as Primarius of Epsilon Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and a Thirty-second Degree Free and Accepted Mason. ' In 1892, Dr. Thornton married Elizabeth Smith of Philadelphia. U ' R. S. GRIFFITH. Page Eleven

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Edward Quin Thornton I DWARD QUIN THORNTON, M.D., Associate Professor of Materia Medica, was born in Marion, Alabama, May 13, 1866, the son of Edward Quin and Sarah Jane Cocke Thornton. He was educated in private schools and at Howard College in Marion, where his father was Pro- fessor of Chemistry. In 1886, he came to Philadelphia to prepare himself for his future career, entering as a student in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and jefferson Medical College, attending both institutions simultaneously. From the former, he was graduated in 1889, and he received his degree in medicine from jefferson in 1890. His first post was that of assistant in the Outpatient Department at jeffer- son, and in 1891 he became assistant in the Laboratory of Materia Medica. Devoting his energy particularly to this study, he soon became instructor and then lecturer in Materia Medica. Later he was made Associate Professor, which position he still fills. Meanwhile he went into the general practice of his profession in Philadel- phia, giving special attention to internal medicine. From the time of his gradua- tion until the present day he has uninterruptedly continued this public practice. In addition he has served as Physician-in-Charge of the Hospital of the Red Bank Association, and as Acting Assistant Surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital. He is now Assistant Visiting Physician at Jefferson Hospital and formerly was Assistant Visiting Physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Despite this varied and busy devotion to the actual toil of healing, despite also the time given to lecturing and teaching, Dr. Thornton has not flagged in his study and experimentation in his chosen field of Materia Medica, nor has he neglected to give to the profession and the world the published results of his labor. He is the author of the standard Dose Book and Manual of Prescrip- tion Writing QSaunders 8: COQ, Manual of Materia Medica fLea and Febigery, Medical Formulary QLea and Febigerj. He is also American editor of such important British works as Tirrard on Treatment fLea Brothers, Philadelphiaj, and Bruce on Treatment fLea Brothers, Philadel- phiaj, as well as being department editor of The Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. fWm. H. Wood 8: Co., New York.j In 1895, His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad in India, conferred upon Page Ten

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