The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-10-17
DEATH OF DR.. G. W. NULL
A NATIVE OF FORSYTH COUNTY
DIES IN KENTUCKY
Son of Mr. Isaac Null, Who Resides a
Few Miles West of Winston Once
Professor in the Louisville
School of Medicine

Professor in the Louisville
School of Medicine.
The Louisville Courier Journal gives
I the particulars Of the death, on sep
| tember Goth, of DR. {. w. Null, a
| native of Forsyth, and son of Mr.
Isaac Null, who resides near Crater's
mill, few miles West of Winston, at
the ripe age of about so years.
The deceased neld the position of
clerk in DR.. Shaffner's drug store,
Salem, before he left here some twenty
years ago for Louisville.
The Courier-Journal, of September
26th, gives the following particulars
of the ending of an unhappy life:
DR.. G w. Null, formerly one of the
besG-known physicians in Louisville,
died aJ the City Hospital last mid
night This will surprise many of his
old professional associates who knew
him as brilliant physician. but did
not know the depths to which he had
fallen. He was taken TO the hospital
last Sunday from Seabold'J saloon, on
First street, near the river, where he
was found unconscious. He was then
in the midst Of one his periodical
his Office, at the corner of Ninth and
Main streets telling no one where be
was going. When he regained con-
sciousneSs at the hospital he seemed
to have lost the power Of speech. He
began to grow worse yesterday morn
ing, and last night had eight convul-
SionS.
DR.. Null was fortytwo years of age
aud came to Louisville about twenty
years ago from North Carolina. He
was an unusually brilliant young man.
He had no money. With an energy
that always characterized him, he
secured position as jdnitOr of the
Louisville School OF Medicine and
took up the study OF medicine at the
same time. He graduated at the head
of his class and was at once elected to
the chair OF Physiology. Shortly after
this he took to drink and also became
d victim of the morphine habit. His
ability was recognized, however, and
he was also given the chair OF Materia
Medica. He delivered one course of
lectures at the Kentucky School OF
Medicine. He was identified with the
movement to establish the Jefferson
School of Medicine, and the failure Of
this scheme went far to confirm him
in his habits of drinking.
He married Miss Womack when
lie was GWenGy-iOuF years Oh aye. lie
drank so heavily that his wife was
compelled to leave him about five
years ago and secure a divorce. DR..
Null disappeared suddenly after that
and nothing was heard from him for
over year, when he Just as suddenly
reappeared at his old haunts. He
said he had been to Australia. He
made repeated threats to kill his wife
and children and then himself, and
the closest watch had TO be kept on
him. Those who had him as physi-
clan had the greatest confidence in his
ability. Persons have come fifty miles
after him taking him to their homes
while he was drunk and keeping him
while he was attending their sick
relatives. He never hesitated to
attend a patient, no matter what time
of night he might be called. The
question of pay never seemed to enter
his mind. 1t was drink that led to
his downfall and death. When his
children, who are still quite young
and who are living with their grand
mother, were taken to see him at the
hospital last night he was not able to
recognize them.