Gaillard's Medical Journal

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MISCELLANEOUS. Non omnes eadem mirantur amcnt uue. Biographical Sketch of Dr. John D. Jackson, of Danville, Ky. By J. M. Toner, M. D., of Washington, D. C., and L. S. McMuRTRY, M. D., of Danville, Ky. John Davies Jackson, M. D., of Danville, Ky., was born in that place on the 12th day of December, 1834. He...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MISCELLANEOUS. Non omnes eadem mirantur amcnt uue. Biographical Sketch of Dr. John D. Jackson, of Danville, Ky. By J. M. Toner, M. D., of Washington, D. C., and L. S. McMuRTRY, M. D., of Danville, Ky. John Davies Jackson, M. D., of Danville, Ky., was born in that place on the 12th day of December, 1834. He was the son of John Jackson, and Margaret, daughter of John and Margaret Spears, of Fayette Count)', Ky. The ancestors for three generations were residents of Kentucky. The subject of this sketch was the eldest child of his parent?. He has at this time two brothers and three sisters living. His father is also living, aged about seventy-five years. His mother died August 9th, 1849. Dr. Jackson received his academic and classical education at Centre College, Danville, Ky., where he graduated in 185-1. He was possessed of quick perception, a clear j udgment, a philosophical turn of mind, and a wonderful amount of industry and application, so that his mental training and exact knowledge on leaving college were greatly in advance of most students on completing an academic course. Having selected medicine as a profession, he at once entered upon its study in the office of his uncle, Dr. Thomas W. Jackson, a practitioner of Dunville. He attended his first course of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Louisville. The following winter he attended the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1857. His thesis was entitled Vis Conservatrix et Medi- catrix Naturae, and exhibited much literary merit and careful observation. Having brought to the study of medicine a trained mind, with great energy and enthusiasm, he received his degree with more practical knowledge than is usual at this period. The inducements...