John Jones / [A.S. Lobingier].

  • Lobingier, A. S. (Andrew Stewart), 1862-1939.
Date:
[1930]
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Credit: John Jones / [A.S. Lobingier]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MASTER SURGEONS OF AMERICA JOHN JONES ANDREW STEWART LOBINGIER, M.D., F.A.C.S., Los Angeles, California THE finest traditions of organized science spring from the impulses which animated the early masters. The life of Dr. Jones is intimately associated with the earliest and most inspiring traditions of the science of surgery in America. He came of sturdy Welsh lineage. His grandfather, Dr. Edward Jones, emi¬ grated from Wales in the ship “Welcome” with William Penn and his colony. He married the daughter of Thomas Wynne, speaker of the Penn Assembly. His son, Dr. Evan Jones, married Mary Stephenson, also of the Penn Colony, and settled in the town of Jamaica, Long Island, where the subject of this sketch was born in 1729. He was the eldest of four sons and his academic schooling was conducted by his father and mother in their home and in a private school in New York City. It was the wish of John’s father that he should study medicine and at the age of eighteen he was placed under the tutorship of Dr. Thomas Cadwallader, one of Philadelphia’s most distinguished physicians. He was there brought in inti¬ mate relationship with the socially elect of Philadelphia, who were the friends of his own family and whose influence was in later years to form a most important background for his professional life in that city. Jones was a conscientious and hard working student, ambitious to excel in all the opportunities offered by his illustrious preceptor. America at that time had no medical college nor any hospital with an organized clinic where a student could be trained in course; and the facilities for clinical study were limited to the private patients of his preceptor. After completing his training under Dr. Cadwallader, Jones went abroad, carrying letters from his preceptor to the master anatomists and surgeons of Britain and France. In London he became the pupil and eventually the intimate friend of Percival Pott, whose surgical clinic at St. Bartholomew’s was justly celebrated. He also took the lecture course of William Hunter in anatomy and became a friend of John Hunter who was completing his course in medicine. After finishing his courses of study in London young Jones went to France. He had acquired a reading and colloquial knowledge of the French language and first became a student at the University of Rheims where he received his degree
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