New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-15

| gions was so thorough that there was nc
| focal injury or disease which he was not
capable OF diagnosing, no surgical opera
| ton he was not prepared to undertake He
| pursued such sy stem of daily post mOrtem
| on those who died in the various wards OF
the hospital that in few years none were
so capable of establishing the real nature
or seat of the disease, none were more able
| to indicate during life the organs and it's
sues most seriously involved.
In conjunction with DR.. William E. Ken
needy, an eminent physician of this city. he
| built, in 1899, an extensive and commodlous
| private hospital on the corner of Canal and
| Claiborne streets. This private institution
was very useful and enjoyed great repu
tatlOn, people being brought to it from the
city and wide space of the surrounding
country. But the proprietOrs, like most
medical men, having no experience IN man
| aging the financial and domestic arrange
ments of so large an establishment, found
| it very Improbable. DR.. Kennedy retired
| in 1915, and DR.. Stone, the most unfit per,
son conducting any complicated business
| out of his profession, retained the property,
| but never devoted it to any purpose proht-
| able to himself. 1t was here in 1871, he
lost his eye from a specific Inflammation
contracted from a child. 1t was source OF
great pain and suffering for years, and de-
tracted much from his personal appearance.
In the year 1913 he was married TO MISS
Johnson, of Bayou Sara, and a few years
afterwards built fine dwelling next to his
hospital. where he resided with all the ele-
gance and comforts of happy home, so
cOngenial to one of his atfectiOnate and de-
voted nature. Living so long IN the word
Ito the age of thirty-twO) without home,
without the society of al atfectlonate' IN
telligent lady, never was man so altered In
his appearance and manners
His marriage was followed in a few years
by young family. His devotion to his
little children was of the most tender char
acter, and among the few mistortunes that
cast their shadows on his path, nothing
was borne with so incOnsOlable and pro-
found atf1iction as the death of his little
children. The people who knew him
transiently knew little of the pa
ternal affection that welled up III
every throb of that kind and gentle
nature of that noble and manly heart. 1t
was the cherished hope of his existence,
the long wished for consummation OF his
devotion to the future of his family, that he
might see them elevated by early advantage
of education and society above the disad-
vantages of the difficulties and humiliations
of his early life, and that they might stand
beside him on the same high platform that
he had reached by his own exertions, his
own energy and abilities. He educated an
accomplished successor to occupy the ros-
trum which he had himself so long occupied
without opposition, and to keep alive that
reputation that he wished to transmit.
A year has just elapsed disease, hopeless
disease, was making rapid inroads upon his
mental and physical energies. He often
complained a. home of hts inability to de-
liver his lectures; he made an Intellectual
and unsuccessful effort to call in the aid of
the one he had educated and prepared to
assist him; unexpected opposition mani
tested itself; all hope of accomplishing his
long cherished wishes vanished like a
dream; his feelings were deeply wounded
by some from whom he anticipated more
consideration, and he resigned the prOfes-
sorship he had held for thirty-six years and
retired heart broken with all his long
cherished hopes scattered and lost forever.
Oh, Warren Stone, Row few unlike thee
stood in the world ready to sacrifice much
for others. how few like thee would have
smothered in silence the beatings of thy
proud heart-would have stood before God
accomplishing, that although not blameless
themselves they had been unkindly treated
by others
The points in our late friend we approach
with the greatest difidence, all the aeknowl-
edged excellencies in his intellectual devel-
Opment, his professional characteristic and
his high moral and philanthropic character.
II the extraordinary development twenty
three inches in circumference of the brain
be an accepted indication the degree of
power of the Intellectual and emotional
manifestations, then should he by this evil
dence have been admitted among the most
gifted of mankind ! His memory was un-
surpassed; what he observed, what he read,
what he heard he caampI tn
During the greater part of his life he used
no memoranda in his extensive business: no
notes IN his lectures or addresses, no writ.
ten records OF the vast amount Of interest
ing facts daily submitted to his careful ex-
animation. Patients the most transient, re.
turning after long interval to his care.
have betn astonished and pleased to find
that the recollection of their persons. their
diseases, ana the very prescriptions were
fresh in his memory. He read more than
was generally credited. His references to
historical facts, his wonderful political
knowledge in everything that was really
important On modern history of the United
States and of Great Britain, made him a
formidable opponent in a discussion: his
kno Wedge of general literature, and more
of the English poets and essay.
lists he often aptly quoted was an unex-
pected pleasure to many. In his profess
sion, what he saw and what he learned he
never forgot. 1t was from this vast accu-
mutation ever at his command, that he con
tributed those general principles he formed
in every department of his knowledge In
deed there were few subjects on which
he had not adopted opinions or some gen
eral principles. His judgment in pro-
the nature of a case. particularly
of one properly surgical, was the most dis
tinguished quality OF his mind. The treat
ment the operation. the time, the
manner of operating. and above all, |
which he exeelled all others of his |
! saw in Charleston at the |
meeting of the American Medical Associa-
ton of the most eminent surgeons and
physicians in America, an unfortunate fel. |
ow from North Carolina, who had at.
tended this and the previous meeting at
the North, in 1851, hoping to be relieved OF |
a tumor in the antrum. 1t was shown to
ne by ali eminent professor CT surgery a |
who pointed out the indica-
ions of what he called fungus humatodes. |
4 malignant disease, so pronounced by ali |
.he surgeons. 1t pushed up and disfgured |
5he whole of the left side of the face and OF
he orbit, drove out the teeth from the |
lbrebla processes, the left side, and pro-
1uced altogether shocking de |
tormity of the face. Shortly at |
ter my return to New Orleans, l found |
that this man whom no operator would |
touch had arrived at the Charity Hospital |
and placed himself under the care of DR..
Stone. After thorough examination he
pronounced, in spite of all the other dag
noses, that it was non-maliguant growth or
Dolypus in the antrum. He proved the
ruth of his opinion by extracting the
growth through the cheek. I Witnessed
Dart of the operation and took the tumor
n my hand as soon as it was exposed and
lrawn out. 1t was simple tibroid, and the
nan was recovering rapidly when the cry
ipelas, then contagious in the hospital. |
INVADED the wound and destroyed! the ga.