The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-04-01
DR.. R.F. BOYD IN BIRMINGHAM.

Distinguished Negro Doctor Of Nash
Vile Appears Before Medical AS
ISOLATION.
Birmingham, Ala, March 2S.-Dr.
R. F. Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn, one of
the leading Negro surgeons and ply
sicians of the South, and Surgeon-in-
Chief of Mercy Hospital, the largest
institution of its kind owned and con-
trolled by the Negro race, and pro-
lessor of gynaecology and abdominal
surgery in Meharry Medical College, |
the largest Negro medical college in
the world, has been in attendance
here upon the State Medical Associa
ton of Colored Physicians, Dentists
and Pharmacists of Alabama.
He addressed the association on
several scientific and medical sub
jects and has performed some alb
dominal operations in the Home Hos
pital owned and controlled by the
colored people here. Most of the
members of this association are stu
dents of DIR. Boyd. DIR. Boyd has
been a professor and an instructor in
Meharry Medical College for more
than a quarter of a century. He is
the father of the hospital idea in his
race and the founder of both local and
national associations. The many hos
pitfalls that are growing up over the
South for the colored people are con-
Quoted by colored people owe their
inspiration to Mercy Hospital at
Nashville, presided over by this man,
and most of the Negro surgeons in
the South were trained in Dr. Boyd's
, hospital.
DR.. Boyd is not only leader in
the medical profession, put in the bus
mess circles of his race, as we'll, be-
ing the President of the Peoples Saw
ings Bank and Trust Company of
Nashville, which is the first trust
l. company operated successfully by the
0 race. The people of Nashville dem
$ onstrated their confidence in DR..
Boyd and their faith in his institution
7 by depositing in it during the first
five months of it's existence more
e than $175000. No man of his race
has given greater inspiration and
y hope to the youth. BY his life and
example the young Negroes are
taught the possibilities of man ris
ing to usefulness and honors in spite
OF the disadvantages and opposition
that may come to them. He has me-
Il fierce circumstances, overcome oppo
= sition and stands out as one of the
IL foremost leaders of his race along
'e with Booker Washington and other:
5 who are demonstrating to the wOrlt
y that their color is 10 bar to the high
u est moral and intellectual develop
u mCnt.
- Dr. Boyd came from the farm il
~ Giles County, Tennessee, and ha
~ taught by both precept and example
20 of lie dignity of labor. He believe
- and teaches the education of tn
~ heart, head and hand Notwithstand
~ ~ ing his busy life as a physician an,
~, ~ teacher, he still clings to the farm
-, ~ life, being the owner of farm an
&c much farm lands. He is one of tn
" strongest advocates of the Negro
=, making his home and rising to tn
~ highest Develops ents as a useful eli
" izen and property holder right her
in the South No man is bette
~ thought of by the white people anon
no whom he lives than is DR.. Boyd.
II. During the past twelve years b
ri. has been, and is still the Unite
States Jail Physician. His relation
of ship with the officials in charge
the prison is of the most kindly nj
as ture and he is kindly treated an
,st highly regarded by these official
es DR.. Boyd advocates the most kind
relations between the white and co
TT ored races and is himself a marke
lv example of that teaching.