Lewis Coleman Morris / [Edgar Poe Hogan].

  • Hogan, Edgar Poe, 1872-1964.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Lewis Coleman Morris / [Edgar Poe Hogan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS November, 1929, pages 720-726 MASTER SURGEONS OF AMERICA LEWIS COLEMAN MORRIS E. P. HOGAN, M.D., F.A.C.S., Birmingham, Alabama EWIS COLEMAN MORRIS was a student, an educator, a leader in pro¬ gressive movements in the interests of public health and hospitals, and a master surgeon. Though the span of his life was brief, the correct appraisal of it in service to his fellowman entitles him to first rank among the great surgeons, not only of the South, but also among the eminent surgeons of the generation in which he lived. He was a native of Virginia, the state which has given to the nation so many eminent men in education, in law, in statesmanship, in medicine and surgery. He imbibed the spirit of these great men. Tracing his life as a whole the great fundamental principle that guided it was that of preparation for usefulness. He was a descendant of one of the most distinguished families of Virginia. He was born at Clazemont, Hanover County, Virginia, January 23, 1872. His grandfather, Richard Morris, of Taylor’s Creek, Hanover County, a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, was a man recognized as a leader among the greatest men of his time. His parents were Edward Watts and Matilda Coleman Morris. His father was a member of the Virginia Con¬ stitutional Convention of 1850-51. His mother, a member of one of the leading families of Virginia, was related by birth to the Minors, the Maurys, and the Dicks. Lewis Coleman Morris, destined for a great career in any vocation, chose that profession in which he believed he could be most useful to his fellowman. While modest and unassuming, he appreciated his heredity, his environment, and his opportunities, and he made the most of them. His early education was received at McGuire’s School in Richmond, Randolph- Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, and later in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. His medical education was secured at the University of Virginia from which he graduated in medicine in June, 1892. His unusual work as a student was recognized by his Alma Mater in his appointment as demonstrator of anatomy. After one year’s successful service in this position, he resigned and practiced a few months at Salisbury, North Carolina, but in the fall of the same year, 1893, he joined his brother, Dr. Edward Morris, in the practice of surgery in Birmingham, where he spent the remaining thirty years of his active and highly successful career as a leader and honored member of the medical profession in Copyright, 1929, by Surgical Pub. Co. of Chicago