J. William White / [Alfred C. Wood].

  • Wood, Alfred C., 1863-
Date:
1922
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Credit: J. William White / [Alfred C. Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Roy MO0 COLLECT/) Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS November, 1922, pages 665-668 / J. WILLIAM WHITE J WILLIAM WHITE, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (Aberdeen), late emeritus profes¬ sor of surgery, and trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, was born in * Philadelphia, November 2, 1850, and died at his home in that city, April 24? 1916, after an illness of several months. He was descended from the Reverend Henry White, who came from England in 1649 and settled in Virginia. Four later generations lived in North Carolina. James White of the fifth generation moved to Burlington, New Jersey. A son married Mary Stockton, a descendant of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. White’s father came from this union. His mother was connected with the well-known New England families of Dowse, Hunt, Isbell, and Griswold. Having attended the public schools and a private school in his native city. Dr. White entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1871, and at the same time received the degree of doctor of philosophy, having taken the course leading to this degree simultaneously with his medical studies. In the autumn of that year he accepted an invitation to join the scientific expedition headed by Professor Agassiz, sailing on the U. S. S. Hassler from Boston, December 4. The stops made included the West Indies, the Strait of Magellan, both coasts of South America, Juan Fernandez Islands, the Galapagos Archipelago, Panama, and Mexico; the expedition terminating at San Francisco in August, 1872. On Dr. White’s return to Philadelphia, he served as resident physician in the Philadelphia Hospital, and subsequently filled a similar position in the Eastern Penitentiary. His connection with the University of Pennsylvania began in 1876, when he became an assistant on the surgical staff. Two years later he was appointed lecturer on venereal diseases and was placed in charge of this department of the out-patient service. In the early 8o’s he became assistant to Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, an association that continued with the greatest cordiality and satisfaction to both, until Dr. Agnew resigned on account of advancing years. In 1886 he was given the title