Martin, Franklin Henry (13 July 1857–07 March 1935), surgeon, organizer, and editor, was born on a farm near Ixonia, Wisconsin, the son of Edmond Martin and Josephine Carlin, farmers. Martin’s father died in the Union army in 1862. Five years later his mother remarried, and young Martin was put under the care of his maternal grandparents. After passing the teacher’s examination, he taught at several village schools....
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Martin, Franklin Henry (1857-1935), surgeon, organizer, and editor
William K. Beatty
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Mathews, Joseph McDowell (1847-1928), surgeon and medical editor
Eugene H. Conner
Mathews, Joseph McDowell (26 May 1847–02 December 1928), surgeon and medical editor, was born in New Castle, Henry County, Kentucky, the son of Caleb M. Mathews, a lawyer and jurist, and Frances S. Edwards. Educated at the New Castle Academy, Mathews began his medical preceptorship in his home town under his brother-in-law, William B. Oldham. Beginning in 1865 he attended two sessions of medical lectures at the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, obtaining his M.D. in 1867 from the University of Louisville Medical Department, during a brief consolidation of the schools. Following graduation he returned home and began the general practice of medicine with his former preceptor. He remained there for five years, but desiring to practice in a larger community, he moved to Louisville. He married Sallie E. Berry of Midway, Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1877; they had no children....
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Warren, Edward (1828-1893), surgeon, medical educator, and journalist
Philip Cash
Warren, Edward (22 January 1828–16 September 1893), surgeon, medical educator, and journalist, was born in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, the son of William Christian Warren, a physician, and Harriet Alexander. Between 1843 and 1845 he attended the Fairfax Institute in Virginia. He then served a medical apprenticeship under his father. Following this, he enrolled in the medical department of the University of Virginia, where after a year of concentrated study he received his M.D. degree in 1850. Although Virginia’s academic standards were high, its medical department, as was the case with most rural medical schools of the day, was deficient in practical anatomy and clinical instruction. To remedy this, the following year Warren took a second M.D. degree at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, then the center of medical education in the United States. While at Jefferson he developed the idea that morphia would act most efficiently and effectively if administered under the skin, using a lancet and Anel’s syringe. Subsequently, he claimed to have conceived the idea of hypodermic medication....
