El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-26
David Wendell Yandell.


Dallas News
DR.. David Wendell Yandel died at
With his d. ath there was the end of q
great doctor and surgeon, who, for
years, stood IN the front rank of his
profession. He had hundreds of pupils
in Texas-Drs. Milliken, Armstrong
an Johnston of Dallas, Bacon Ssun-
ders of Fort Worth, Fly and West OF
Galveston, and many others.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
editorially of the deceased:
man in the medical profession. It was
not alone that he had reached the
first achievements and the highest hon.
ors of that profession; that in London
and in Edinburgh, hardly less than in
schools of his own country, he was
known aad respected; that as a military
surgeon during great war he was
unsurpassed, and, though still pre-
eminent as a surgeon, that he was hard
practitioner during the thirty years of
peace that followed that war; the fav-
orite student of Gross in the meridian
of his powers, and Cross staff and
standby in his later years. These
things were indeed titles to q name and
fame, to the name and fame of the
most ambitious. But apart from them,
ut once beside them and above them,
DR.. Yandell possessed q personality
and character so Impressive aud per-
vssive as to single him out from the
mass even of men, distinguished for
genius aud learuiog, and wherever he
appeared his was at once marked
| presence,
During fifty years DR.. Yandell was
the intim ate Of most of the famous men
of his own country, and of many of the
famous men of the world. He was Of
ten abroad and always q welcome
guest in thee uropean capitals, where
his distinguished bearing, no less than
his extraordinary charm, even more
than his fame as surgeon, made him
a welcome guest in all companies.
Here in Kentucky he stood without q
peer: and he goes to join his collea-
CUES, Gross and Flint and Simms,
who preceded him to the grave, one OF
the kings, sand the last of kings, OF
that realm, now no more, which in
th< ir day was not split up into isolated
and Independent principalities, but
length and breadth of the medical
circumference ard practice, and was as
tyrannous in its limitations and as jea-
lous of it's prerOgstives' even as the
divine right of kings. With the death
of DIR. Yandell the old order of grea,
doctors passes away, leaving the me-
dical profession not merely in new
hands, but to new conditions, to which
the world is adjusting itself, but wheth
err for better or worse it is for the fu
ture to decide"
DR.. Va dell was born Sept. IL, 1926
near Murfreesboro, Tenn. He wal
given a brilliant medical training
completing his studies abroad. In the
early Sos he began his medical career
in Louisville. Durine the war DR.
Yandeu came south with Gen. Buck
uer, was medical director uoder Gen
Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen. w. J
aardee, Geo. Jos. E. Johnston and
Gen. E. XII, by Smith. He took keer
interest in military matters, having
been the medical director of the Louis
vile Legion for many years.
In 1871 he was elected president oil
the American Medical Association ant
later of the American Surgical Asso
citation, the highest honors of the pro
fession.
DIR. Yandell married Miss France.
Crutcher of Nashville. He leaves two
daughter Mrs. DR.. W. o. Roberts
and Mrs. James F. Buckner, Jr. Hi,
son William is physician at E
Paso, Tex.
| For many summers he had q Ions
strip of earth extending around his yarl
planted with his favorite flower, the
fit he planted them, but as gifts
for his patients. Day after day ht
would enter his buggy, carrying lit
tie cluster of the gorgeous blossoms
and in many house darkened by suf
fering and death they have preached
the silent but eloquent gospel of Low,
and sympathy.