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: BIOGRAPHY. Dr. John J. Speed.?This well-known physician died at his home, in Louisville, on the morning of May 6. Although he had been in feeble health for some months, his death was sudden and unexpected. Dr. Speed was born in Bardstown, Ky., in 1816. He received his literary education at St. Joseph's...
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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: BIOGRAPHY. Dr. John J. Speed.?This well-known physician died at his home, in Louisville, on the morning of May 6. Although he had been in feeble health for some months, his death was sudden and unexpected. Dr. Speed was born in Bardstown, Ky., in 1816. He received his literary education at St. Joseph's Academy, and graduated in medicine from the Transylvania University. He passed his period of professional probation in his native town, from which place he moved to Crawfordsville, Ind., and entered substantially upon the practice of medicine. In 1850 he came to Louisville, where for thirty-five years, as practitioner, professor, and sanitarian, he has done honor to his calling through an ever-widening sphere of influence. Dr. Speed possessed a vigorous intellect, to which endowment he added the equipments of profound learning and broad culture. A philosophical thinker and a writer of rare talent, he made many contributions to current medical literature, and was a popular essayist before the Sanitary Councils and the State and local medical societies. His sentences were brief, direct, and vigorous; but always carefully finished and marked by peculiar grace of diction. On the rostrum or the assembly floor, he was of dignified presence. He spoke with force and fluency, always to the point, and commanded respectful attention. Dr. Speed was earnest, humble, and sincere in his daily walk and conversation, above all meanness, beyond all vanity; just to his professional brethren, helpful to his patients, true to his friends, devoted to his family, a physician, a Christian, and a gentleman.?Louisville Medical News. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. NOTE.?The weekly medical journals very properly publish the proceedings of societies as soon as the societies adjourn. This journal b...