The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-19
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John T. Darby, nj. D.

J0hn i, DARCY, He lie
The roll of Carolina physicians who
have gone-hence to make their farmland
fortune is one of which the State may
well feel proud, for in Paris, New York.,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans
and San francisco there are and have
been Carolina names in the profession,
SO illustrious as to be familiar not only in
the cities where they lived and moved
and had their being, but all over the
Union. Among these distinguished men
none stood higher in professional acquire
ments and personal character than Or.
John T. Darby, the announcements OF
whose death has Just caused q thrill OF
sorrow throughout the large circle of his
friends and admirers A varied expert
ence in the active duties of his profes-
sion, not only in the ordinary walks of
civil life, but in the crowded wards of
city hospitals and amid the narrowing
scenes Of the battlefield, had given DIR.
Darby unusual advantages for the &C
uuirement of scientific knowledge and
practical skill of which his natural in
telligence enabled him to make 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', and 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 at the
Summer Medical Institute Of which Drs.
Michel, Kinloch and Robertson were the
professors, and also attended the Medi-
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. BE was subse-
quently, promoted to the position of Di-
vision Surgeon and served through the
war in this capacity. After the war the
Preston family, of which he had become
member 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 a volunteer sur
geon in the German war of 1866. He
then returned 10 Columbia and was cleo
ted Professor Of Anatomy and Surgery of
the medical department of the Universi-
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
. ehO SlbJ VI SO1QuUia. oQiluS alo 1Co1-
dence in Columbia he was elected Presi-
dent of the South Carolina 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 removed
to that city in 1875 and commenced the
practice of medicine there. Shortly after
moving to New York he obtained the po-
sition Of Professor of Surgery in the med
ical 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 member of
the Academy of Sciences of iPhiladel-
phia.
DR.. Darby had suffered severely from
i'll 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
he never fully .recovered.--Neacs and C6u-
yier