Volume VIII
Number 5
June 29
1940
THE STATE
A Weekly Survey of North Carolina
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1879.
Edward Warren,
М.Ю.
BEY OF EGYPT
Hero was one of the most ronuirkolilo men
.\ortli C arolina over Inis profluroil. Ho prae-
tioiMl moilioino on llirc‘0 oonliiionts anil was
“ivon official recognition by several gov-
ornmonts.
I X April. 1037. the distinguished
I Raleigh surgeon. Dr. Hubert A.
I Royaler, addressed the Richmond
Academy of Medicine, ami instead of
taking as his text Scarpa’s triangle.
Pott's fracture. Hunter's operation, or
some other highly technical subject, he
elected to regale his audience with a
most delightful account of one of the
most remarkable men Carolina has
produced. The priueipal source of Dr.
Royster’s information was Warren’s
autobiography, entitled “A Doctor’s
Experience in 4’hree Continents,” pub¬
lished at Baltimore in 1885, a hook
long out of print. If in the following
article 1 but paraphrase I>r. Royster,
blame it on the fine portrait lie has
painted.
Dr. Royster tells us that Edward
Warren was born in Tyrrell County,
hut the family soon moved to Edcnton
where bis father practiced medicine
until after the Civil War. I thought
Edonton had one colorful Doctor in
Hugh Williamson, who was. at differ¬
ent times in his great career, a preach¬
er, a professor of mathematics, a phy¬
sician. an historian and a statesman,
member of the Continental Congress,
signer of the Federal Constitution,
Mid other big things like that, but
his career was not. half so colorful or
romantic as was that of Dr. Warren.
Read Warren’s titles and degrees:
M.D., C.M., LI„D., Medical Inspec¬
tor of the Army of Northern Yir-
By I*. C. LAWRENCE
ginia ; Surgeon-General of North Car¬
olina troops; Surgeon-in-Chief of the
War Department of Egypt; Founder
and Professor of the College of Physi¬
cians and Surgeons of Baltimore;
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of
France; Commander of the Order of
Osmnnieh of Turkey; Knight of the
Order of Isabella the Catholic, of
Spain ; Redemption of the Holy Sepul¬
chre of Jerusalem ; the White Cross of
Italy; Medal of Victor Emmanuel;
and’ finally BEY TO KHED1VAL
FIRMAN. Bey is an Egyptian title
roughly corresponding to that of an
English knight.
Now if you know- of any country
doctor who has done half so well.
bring him out. In his autobiography
he tells just how he got that way. It
was by falling in lore. He says that
“from that moment I stood at the head
of my clasaes and carried off the high¬
est marks in all the public examina¬
tions. . . . Whatever my destiny has
been, is due to the direct influence of
the passion which this girl inspired
the aspiration lo excel, the power of
concentration, and the fixedness of
риг/юве
which it developed within
me.”
Пе
attended the University of Vir¬
ginia and was greatly pleased when
Professor McGuffey (author of the fa¬
mous readers) told him “you have re¬
ceived the maximum murk for every
recitation during the entire session."
Warren then had an ambition to be¬
come a lawyer, and became gloomy
and dejected when bis father made
him study medicine. What a lawyer
he would have made! But ambition
Anally spurn-*! him on ; he studied six¬
teen hours a day and obtained his
medical diploma in one session, as he
tells us, “walking upon commencement
day by the side of my competitor, the
applause of my enthusiastic friends
was the sweete-t music that hail ever
reached my ear."
Then he went to Jefferson Med¬
ical College at Philadelphia, where
he received his diploma the follow¬
ing spring. What then? lie claim'
that 1m conceived the idea of intro¬
ducing morphia under the shin in
the form of a solution in short hy¬
podermic medication. He «lid not
claim to Ik* the inventor of the
hypodermic syringe, hut di«l claim that
he practiced that form of medication
several years in advance of any other
physicians. I had thought that Rich¬
ard Gatling, inventor of the machine
gun, was the greatest «liseoverer or in¬
ventor of Carolina, hut if this claim
of Dr. Warren
1ц*
founded upon the
Itasis of fact, his discovery was a revo¬
lutionary one and entitles him to rank
along with Long who discovered ane*-
