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NAME JOHNSTON 631 JOHNSTON of health and the Richmond Civic Association, rendering valuable service in both. In July, 1911, Dr. Johnston had an attack of ptomaine poisoning which was followed by myocarditis and angina pectoris. He im- proved very greatly and was actively engaged in his profession until about three months be- fore his death. On the morning of December 20, 1916, he felt better and had gotten up to dress, and while shaving had an attack of acute cardiac dilatation and died suddenly at his home in Richmond. Beverley R. Tucker. Bull, of the Medical College of Virginia, Feb., 1917. Johnston, William Patrick (1811-1876) The son of Col. James and Ann Marion Johnston, W. P. Johnston was born October 24, 1811, in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated at Yale, and at Philadelphia studied medicine under Prof. William Horner (q. v.), and while in the drug store of Samuel Griffith acquired a practical knowledge of materia medica and pharmacy. After graduating M. D. in 1836 at the University of Pennsylvania he was appointed a resident physician at Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia. In 1837 he was appointed physi- cian to the Philadelphia Dispensary, and took charge of the Southwestern District. In the autumn he went to Europe till 1840; the greater part of the time being spent in Paris hospitals acquiring a knowledge of special diseases. His marriage to Miss Hooe, of Alexandria. Virginia, induced him to settle, in 1840, in Washington and he was elected professor of surgery in the National Medical College, Dis- trict of Columbia, but in 1845 was transferred to the chair of obstetrics and diseases of wo- men and children. He joined with the other members of the faculty in establishing the Washington Infirmary. After the close of the war of 1861-5 he resumed his course on ob- stetrics until he resigned in 1871. He r/as then made emeritus professor, and on the death of Dr. Thomas Miller (q. v.), became president of the faculty. He was one of the originators of the Pathological Society of Washington in 1841 and vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1866. Dr. Johnston was the first physician in Washing- ton to devote special attention to the diseases of women, but he never abandoned general practice. He died of chronic heart disease October 24, 1876. Two of his sons followed their father's profession. Daniel Smith Lamb. "In Memoriam, Board of Directors, Children's Hospital, Washington, 1876." Trans. Amcr. ATed. .Acso.. 1878, vol. xxix. Reminiscences, S. C. Busey, 1895. Johnston, William Waring (1843-1902) William Waring Johnston was born in Washington, D. C, December 28, 1843, and died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 21, 1902. He was the eldest son of Dr. Wm. P. Johnston, who came from Savannah, Georgia, and settled in Washington in 1840, where for many years he enjoyed a large medical practice and was professor of obstetrics in the medical school of the Columbian University. The mother of Dr. W. W. Johnston was Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Bernard Hooe, of Virginia. The early education of young Johnston be- gan at his father's residence, under direction of a private tutor, who prepared him to enter St. James College, near Baltimore, which he did in 1861, at the age of 18 years. Owing to the Civil War this college closed in 1862, and William W. Johnston returned to Washington where he continued his studies under direction of Mr. Charles B. Young, until the autumn of 1863, when he began his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. From this institution he obtained his medical degree in March, 1865, and soon afterwards became an interne at the Bellevue Hospital, New York, where he was on duty during the cholera in- vasion of 1866. Leaving New York, after the expiration of his term of service at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Johnston went to the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, where he became the pupil of Dr. John Hughes Bennett, professor of clinical medicine in the Edinburgh Royal In- firmary. From Scotland, Dr. Johnston went to France and finished his medical education in the hospitals of Paris. He returned to Washington in 1868 to begin medical practice, in preparation for which he had now spent five years in study and hospital training. At once introduced by his distinguished fa- ther and bringing with him the latest methods of medical treatment learned in the European hospitals — especially the then new method of treating disease by rest, food and hygiene, rather than by bleeding and drtigs, of which he was an early and enthusiastic advocate — he soon acquired a large practice onerous du- ties of which he continued with unremitting care and industry until the end of his life. Apart from the exacting requirements of a busy practitioner he still found time to con- tribute to medical literature. The productions of his pen, while never voluminous, comprised something over thirty separate papers of rec- ognized merit. Notable among these were his contributions to "Pepper's System of Practical Medicine" (vol. ii, 1885) ; Hare's "System of