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STONE 1111 STONE tlie past were carefully edited, so that although the unworthy too often found places, the book is still a mine of useful information to the student of medical biography. Stone's name should be kept in grateful remembrance by the medical profession of the United States. Dr. Stone married Matilda C. Long, of Maysville, Indiana, November 24, 1869, and they had one son. Dr. Stone practised medicine, surgery and obstetrics. He was quiet and reserved in manner, rather diffident unless in the com- pany of those he knew well. Later in life he experienced financial reverses and disap- pointments that led to his sudden taking oflf. Walter L. Burr.^ce. Eminent Amer. Phys. and Surgs., R. F. Stone. Indianapolis, 1894. Ohituarv by Samuel Earp, M. D., in Indianapolis Med. 'Jour., Oct. 1913. Stone, Robert King (1822-1872) Robert King Stone was born in 1822, in Washington, District of Columbia. His an- cestors were among the earlier settlers of Washington ; both contributing to its progress and prominently identified with its establish- ment and prosperity. At an early age he entered Princeton College and ranked among its brightest scholars. After receiving his A. B., in 1842, he returned to Washington, and worked under Dr. Thomas Miller (q. v.). Dr. Miller selected Stone as his assistant in the dissecting room, considering him a close and minute dissector, good in anatomical studies and especially in minute anatomy. After attending a course of lectures in the National Medical College, District of Colum- bia, Stone went to the University of Penn- sylvania, where he took his M. D. in 1845, and in 1849 that of the University of Louis- ville. In 1846 he went to Europe and walked the hospitals of London, Edinburgh, Vienna and Paris, paying particular attention to oph- thalmic surgery and ear diseases. He was the private pupil of the celebrated Desmarres. assisting him in operations. At the same time he did not neglect his favorite studies of comparative anatomy and operative surgery. Returning to Washington in 1847 he began general practice and became assistant to the chair of anatomy in the National Medical College and was in 1848 appointed adjunct professor of the chair of anatomy and physi- ology, and afterwards professor of anatomy, physiology and microscopic anatomy. A ready and fluent lecturer, he always illustrated his lectures by the most beautiful drawings and diagrams made by himself. Having a de- cided preference for ophthalmic and aural surgery, he was appointed to that chair, earn- ing enduring laurels in the position, but he was thrown from his carriage and his thigh was fractured. He never afterwards engaged in active practice. Resigning his position in the college, he devoted himself to private patients principally for ophthalmic and aural surgery. He died suddenly in Philadelphia on April 23, 1872, from apoplexy. In 1849 he married a daughter of Thomas Ritchie, the founder, in 1804, of the Richmond Enqinrcr, and in 1845 of the Washington Union. Daniel Smith Lamb. Trans. Anier. Med. Asso. 1873, vol. xxiv. Reminiscences, S. C. Busey, 1895. Address before the Med. Soc, Wash., D. C, by Dr. Thomas Miller. Stone, Warren (1808-1872) Warren Stone, one of New Orleans's most noted surgeons was born in St. Albans, Ver- mont, on February 3, 1808, the son of a farmer, Peter Stone, who married Jerusha Snow. As a boy young Warren inclined to study medi- cine and left home to do so under Dr. .^mos Twitchell (q. v.) in Keene, graduating M. D. from the Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1831, but patients proving scanty, he went oflf in the Amelia to New Orleans. Cholera broke out and the passengers were landed on Folly Island near Charleston, and housed there. Stone helped with the cases but caught the disease and when landed in December at New Orleans was sick, poor, and insufficiently clothed. Dr. Thomas Hunt (q. v.), who had nursed him at Folly Island and previously seen his good work, got him at last the post of assistant surgeon at the Charity Hospital. In 1836 he became resident surgeon, then lecturer on anatomy and finally professor of surgery in the University of Louisiana, a post he held until his resignation in 1872. In 1841 he lost one of his eyes from a specific inflammation contracted in an opera- tion. In 1843 he married Malvina Dunreath Johnson, of Bayou Sara, and one son, War- ren, became a surgeon. Stone was noted as much for his diag- nostic skill as his surgery; his judgment was unequalled and his attention to after treat- ment was painstaking. He did much to incul- cate the propriety of opening diseased joints and improving surgical technic. He was the first to advise thoracotomy with drainage and the removal of a rib in cases of empyema. As a writer too he was good, and ably edited T/ieJVrK' Orleans Medical and Surgical Jour-