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mg! MMWMM HE sons of the University of Virginia who have attained great eminence have done so principally in the fields of Law and Politics. It has bee come a commonplace that when the relative number of students is cona sidered, this University, as represented by her alumni, carries much more weight in the national councils than any other institution of learning in the country. For this reason people are pr one to overlook the fact that much work of the finest quality and of unique usefulness has also been accomplished by alumni of the University in other fields equally as important as that of state craft, if by their nature less conspicuous. This consideration applies in particular to the realm of Medicine, in which the University may well take pride in the work of her sons, for all that they may not have been heralded by shouting multitudes. In the department of investi- gation the signal achievement of Major Walter Reed C6D in exposing the carrier of the yellow fever bacillus received world-wide will make his name forever memorable. The accomplish- ments of such men as Major Reed as investigators, find their natural complea
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IX!- 6 antks antl Qtutls 1916 befzfgd ment in the work done in the field of practice by men like the subject of this sketch. The one is the type of the great discoverer, the worker in laboratories with microscopes and test-tubes and retorts for his companions-the theorist; the other is the type of the great healer, the active mover about in a world of suffering humanity, the applyer of the general principles of the theorist, chang ing them to suit the infinite varieties of individual paine-the man of action. Dr. George Ben Johnston was born in Tazewell County, in Southwest a Virginia, a fertile region of bluegrass and stalwart men. His family has fure nished many distinguished Virginians, his father being John Warheld Johnston, Senator from Virginia and one of the first lawyers of the State, while his mother was Miss Nicketti Buchanan Floyd, a daughter of John B. Floyd, Senator Johnston was strongly desirous of associating his son with him in his legal practice, and consequently the young man, after a preparatory educa- tion at the Abingdon Male Academy and at St. Vincent,s College, Wheeling, West Virginia, entered the University of Virginia for the session of 187273, where he was a student in the academic department for two years. During this time young Johnston became a conspicuous and very popular figure in the d for his sunny disposition, his feats of personal He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and of the Washington Literary Society. History fails to record, however, that the future surgeon,s reputation for profound or brilliant scholar- ship received any notable enhancement during this period. . The truth is that the nearer came the time for him to enter upon his legal studies, the stronger became his distaste for the prospect. All his desires lay in the direction of a medical career, but his father, the Senator, remained ine Hexible. Accordingly, after the end of his second year at the University, found settled in the office of Daniel Trigg, Esq., at Abinge Had his legal aptitude been slightly greater, these words ten, but so little was his heart in the work that he of toil his reading had covered a grand total It is not surprising that in' the face of this and agreed to his sons return to the University young Johnston is don, reading law. would never have been writ has admitted that after some weeks of eleven pages of Blackstone. result the Senator finally gave in, to study medicine. a 'n Dr. Johnston,s career. From the beginning This was the turning point 1
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