William Waring Johnston. 

 1843-1902. 



Dr. William Waring Johnston was born in Washington, 

 D. C, December 28, 1843, and died in Atlantic Cit}', New- 

 Jersey, on March 21, 1902. He was the eldest son of Dr. 

 Wm. P. Johnston, who came from Savannah, Ga., 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 Flooe, of V^irginia. 



The early education of young Johnston began 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 col- 

 lege 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 

 invasion of 1866. Leaving New York, after the expiration of 

 his term of service at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Johnston went to 

 the University of Edinburgh, where he became the pupil of Dr. 

 John Hughes Bennett, a noted Professor of Clinical Medicine 

 in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmar}^ From Scotland, Dr. John- 

 ston 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 father and bringing 

 with him the latest methods of medical treatment learned in the 

 European hospitals — especially the then new method of treat- 

 ing disease by rest, food and hygiene, rather than by bleeding 



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