The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 18

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Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 18: July 1944Dr. Johns evidently recognizes the effect of heredity upon men's lives. He traces the ancestral lines of Dr. Johnston back to the Marquis of Annandale, Warden of the West Marches. He Shows the connection of the doctor with hampden-sydney's benefactor, donor of the 100 acres at the head of Hudson's Branch on which the College stands, and outlines too the descent of the family from John Floyd and other lines potent in the formation of the character of the man of genius, of brilliant mind and magnetic spirit, first in Virginia to advocate and adopt the new Antiseptic Surgery. Dr. Johns cites many cases of, successful Operations per formed by Dr. Johnston, and claims for him that he was consistently right on the fundamentals of modern surgery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.