Page:American Medical Biographies - Kelly, Burrage.djvu/376

NAME EDWARDS 354 EDWARDS porlunity was exceptional, because his aid was requested in much of the abdominal sur- gery done by Edebohls in the year following his retirement from general practice. Herman J. Boldt. Amer. Jour. Obstet, May, 1909. New York Med. Jour., Aug., 1908. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., Aug., 1908. Buffalo Med. Jour., Sept., 1908. Post-graduate, N. Y., Sept., 1908. Portrait. Edwards, Emma Ward (1845-1896). Emma Ward, a pioneer physician, was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 5, 1845, of New England ancestry and educated at local private schools. At seventeen, her health failing, she was placed under medical care for several years. During this time she deter- mined to become a physician and at twenty- one, health recovered, she was studying un- der local doctors. There was no regular school of medicine in New York for women until 1868, when the Woman's Medical Col- lege of the New York Infirmary was opened. Emma Ward immediately matriculated, and entering the first class graduated in 1870 with the honor of valedictorian. After her gradu- ation she served as clinical assistant, dispen- sary physician and instructor in "practice" in the college, and was associated with Dr. Lor- ing of New York for a year. She then re- turned to Newark and took 'up general prac- tice with 'unusual success. In April, 1872, she married Dr. Arthur M. Edwards and removed to Berkeley', California, Her husband becoming incapacitated by ill- ness, she returned with him and the children to Newark in 1878 and built up a phenomenal- ly large practice. She was a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society and Esse.x County Medical Society. To her fine character, coupled with the success she achieved, is partly due the tre- mendous impulse which the education of women in the medical profession received in the vicinity of New York. She died of dysentery, March 28, 1896, at Clearwater, Florida. Alfreda B. Withington. The Woman's Journal, Boston, vol. xxvii. New York Med. Rec., vol. xlix. Personal information. Edwards, Francis Smith (1826-1865). Francis Smith Edwards was born in Nor- wich, England, June 2, 1826, the son of Charles Edwards, a distinguished member of the New York bar, and the author of several legal and other works. He had his early education at a school in Poughkeepsie, New York, and was subse- quently a pupil of the Messrs. Peugnett, in that city. After leaving school he joined Col. Doniphan at St. Louis, and accompanied him in his march over the prairies during the ^Mexican War. A book entitled "A Campaign in New Mexico with Col. Doniphan," etc., of which Edwards was the author, contains an account of his adventures in that expedition. He began to study medicine with Dr. John C. Beales, of New York, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1854. Up to the time of his last sickness he generally assisted at some one of the clinics attached to that institution, and gave especial attention to the diseases of women and chil- dren. For a few months he served as surgeon on one of the Cunard steamers. During his professional career he had col- lected a large number of valuable coins, and his reputation among those devoted to this study elevated him to the vice-presidency of the Numismatical Society. He died of typhoid fever, June 1, 1865, contracted while in attendance upon a patient suffering from this disease. He married Ely Ann, daughter of Thomas Goodwin, of New York City, and left a wife and two children. Med. Reg. City of New York, 1860. Edwards, Landon Brame (1845-1910). Landon Brame Edwards was one of the founders of the University College of Medi- cine, Richmond, Virginia; also founder in 1874, and for many years editor, of the I'irginia Medical Monthly, later known as the I'irginia Medical Semi-Monfhly. He was born September 20, 1845, in Prince Edward County, Va., and died at his home in Richmond, November 27, 1910, aged sixty- five. He was the son of John Ellis Edwards, a clergyman, and was educated at Randolph- Macon College and at the University of the City of New York, where he received his M. D in 1867. In 1863 he enlisted in the Artillery Corps of the Confederate Army and served until the close of the war, and served after- wards as surgeon of the first regiment, Vir- ginia Volunteers. He was a member of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Asso- ciation and past president and honorary fel- low of the Richmond Academy of Surgery. His work as a teacher began in 1874, when he became lecturer on anatomy in the Medi- cal College of Virginia ; in 1875 he was elected lecturer on materia medica and therapeutics and served in this capacity for two years