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Title: Virginia medical semi-monthly
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Richmond, Va. : (L. B. Edwards)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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n; Richmond Academy ofMedicine and Surgery, of which he was at one timepresident, as also former president American MedicalEditors Association and of American Medical Pub-lishers Association. Honorary member West Vir-ginia State Medical Society; of Medical and SurgicalSociety, District of Columbia; of National Associationof Railway Surgeons. Contributions to literature—all medical—chiefly as editor. Author of SimpleContinued Fever, Twentieth Cent. Prac. of Med., 1899.Member Delta Psi Fraternity; A Mason; Pythian. It i- an easy and pleasant task to enumeratethe honors received and the high positions heldby a man occupying a prominent place in thepublic eye; but how difficult it is to describe theprivate virtues, the cheerful spirit, the industry,the upright character, the forgiving disposition,and the loving charity of the noble heart of onewhom we love! Landon Brame Edwards was born September20, 1845, in Prince Edward County, Virginia.As was the custom in those days, his father, a
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distinguished minister of the Methodist Church,had him educated at the best private prepara-tory schools. He entered Randolph-MaconCollege, where he pursued his studies with dis-tinction, till this institution was closed by theCivil War. Filled with patriotic zeal for the defense ofhis native State and the cause of the South, heenlisted, a mere boy, as a private in the South-side Artillery of the Confederate Army in 1863.With this command he saw active service atDrewrys Bluff, Howlett House, and otherpoints. While performing his honorable part asa soldier, he never lost sight of his future life-work. He eagerly took advantage of the kind-ness of the Army Surgeons to assist and studythe varied injuries and disease-; attendant uponarmies in conflict. He closed his armyservice with General Lee a,1 Appomattox, April9, 1865. He graduated in medicine from theMedical Department of the University of theCity of Yew York, March, 1867, having previ-ously spent one year each at the Medical Colleg

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