CHAPTER LIX 

 JOHN S. FULTON, M.D.* 



SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCU- 

 LOSIS 



MARYLAND has been fortunate in the development of its 

 public health and tuberculosis work, both because of the 

 fact that it has had an institution of such international 

 importance as the Johns Hopkins Medical School and also because 

 of the fact that it has had, for over twenty years, state health offi- 

 cers of strong and vigorous personalities. Such a man has been 

 Dr. John Samuel Fulton. Without Dr. Fulton much of the pro- 

 gressive leadership that Maryland has enjoyed in the tuberculosis 

 movement might have been retarded or indefinitely postponed. 



Dr. Fulton was born in a rectory at Freemont, Ohio, in 1859, 

 his parents being Rev. William Fulton, D.D., a native of Glasgow, 

 Scotland, and Nancy Organ Fulton, of Cable, Ohio. In 1861 

 the family moved to Snow Hill, Maryland. Dr. Fulton's educa- 

 tion, therefore, began in the rectory of All Hallows Parish, on the 

 eastern shore of Maryland, with his parents for teachers. The 

 lot of a clergyman in the South during the Civil War was hard 

 enough. There were not fewer than five Scottish born clergy- 

 men on the eastern shore in those days, two of them Fultons, 

 and all of them had to teach for a living. Any boy in a rectory 

 or a manse had, therefore, quite superior educational advantages. 



Dr. Fulton received his A.B. degree from St. John's College, 

 Annapolis, in 1876, and began the study of medicine immediately 

 thereafter as student assistant to Dr. Stephen Purnell Dennis, of 

 Salisbury. He taught two years in the public schools, and grad- 

 uated in medicine at the University of Maryland in 1881. In 

 1897 Dr. Fulton became secretary of the State Board of Health, 



* As Secretary-General of the International Congress Dr. Fulton was a 

 recognized officer of the National Tuberculosis Association. 



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