The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-19
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John 4. Darby, II. ID.

The roll of Carolina physicians yiid
have COINCIDENCE to make their faEaanBd
fortune is one of which the State fnay
we'll feel Proud, for in P:c-is, New York.,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans
and San Francisco there are and have
been Carolina names in the profession,
so iluslrious as to be familiar not only in
the cities where they lived and moved
end had their being, but all over the
Union. Among these distinguished men
none stood higher in professional acquire
mcnts and personal character than DR..
John L. Darby, the announcements of
whose death has just caused thrill of
sorrow throughout the large circle of his
friends. and admirers. A varied expert
cncc in the active duties of his profess
sion, not only in the ordinary walks of
civil life, but in the crowded wards of
city hospitals and amid the narrowing
scenes scenes of the battlefield, had given Or.
Darby unusual advantages for the ac-
quirement Of scientific knowledge and
practical skill of which hiE natural in
telligence enabled him to mako the best
use, and consequently, both as surgeon
and physician, he occupied the foremost
rank. AS citizen and patriot his record
was unblemished. His death will no.
where be regretted more than in this, his
native State.
DR.. Darby was reared in st. Mathews
Parish, Orangeburg County, where his
father practiced medicine before him.
He received his early education at Mount
Zion College, Winnsboro', ard finished
his classical education at the South Caro-
lima College. After completing his COL
legiate course he came to Charleston and
commenced the study of medicine ut the
Summer Medical Institute of which Drs.
Michel, Kinloch and Robertson were the
professors, and also attended the gIed-
cal College of South Carolina, of which
he was graduate. He next went to
Philadelphia, and shortly afterwards be-
came the Assistant Professor of Anato-
my and Surgery in Professor Agnew's
Medical school in that city. He retained
this position and practiced medicine in
Philadelphia up to the commencement of
the war, when he returned to South Car
olina and connected himself with Hamp-
toms Legion, of which he was appointed
surgeon. In this capacity he rendered
efficient service at the first battle of Ma
nassas and several of the engagements
that followed soon after. He was subse-
quently promoted to the position of Di-
war in this capacity. After the war the
Preston family, OF which he had become
membcr by marriage, went to Europe
and DR.. Darby went also, and spent two
years in England, France and Germany.
where he took advantage OF the fine Eu.
ropean hospitals for prosecuting the stud
les of his profession, and during part of
the time he served as o volunteer sur
geon In the German war of 1866 He
then returned to Columbia and was elec-
ted Professor OF Anatomy and Surgery of
the medical department of the IIniversi-
ty OF South Carolina. He retained this
position until in consequence Of the de-
generate condition Of the University un-
der the Radical administration he was
induced to resign, and continued for some
time subsequent TO practice medicine in
the City of Columbia. During his resi-
dcnce in Columbia he was elected Presi-
dent of the South Carolinn Medical AS.
sociation. He then conceived the plan
OF trying his fortunes at the North, and
chiefly through the persuasion OF DR..
Sims, then in New York, he remo7 ed
to that city in 1876 and commenced tl,e
practice of medicine there. Shortly after
moving to New York he obtained the DO
sition of Professor of Surgery in the med
1cal department. of the University of New
YORK, which position he held up to the
time of his death, and in connection with
it practiced his profession. He was also
visiting surgeon to the Bellevue and Sinai
Hospitals in New York, and q member of
the Academy of Sciences OF ,Philadel-
DR.. Darby had suffered severely from
Ill health during his residence at the
!North- During the first winter after his
Location there he was very i'll from the
effects of q. dissection wound, and last
winter he was seized with severe attack
OF pneumonia, from the effects of which
ne never fully recovered. .-Me,us a. "a C6u.
ricr.