Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-10-30
VIM. E. Magruder, NJ. D.

Whereas, the death of DR.. Magruder has
taken from the Montgomery County Medi-
cal Society, member ever diligent in its
service and alert for its success, and from
his fellow-members an associate whose
genial personality was source of harmony
and goodwill, we, the undersigned COM
mittee appointed by the president of said
society, respectfully offer the following
tribute and resolutions:
The subject of this sketch was born at
Brookeville, Maryland, August 3rd, 1884,
and died at his home near Sandy Spring,
Maryland, July 18th. 1914. He was the
son of the late DR.. William B. Magru-
der, of Montgomery County. DR.. Magru-
der, after preparatory course at the
Brookeville Academy under the tutorship
of the late John Hall, was graduated in
medicine from the University of Maryland
in 1854. In 1864 he married Miss Mar
earet H. Brooke, of the same neiehborhood.
who, with the following children, Emma,
Richard p. Mary, VIM. F.. Jr, M. D., sur
vive him.
DR.. Magruder was engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession for nearly sixty years,
most of the time actively, with marked
success in the community in which he
was born, so the old adage. "A prophet is
not without honor, save in his own coun-
try" did not hold good in his case.
He was a great lover of the best litera-
ture, a wide reader and dilieent student.
His paper upon the treatment of exopthal-
mic eoitre and paychothuapy were most
favorably commented upon by the medi-
cal journals of this and other States.
He was gentleman physician and he
found, as osler puts it, that Culture is
the bichloride which may prevent infection
and keeps man sweet and whole amid the
most debasing surroundings" and he proved
it true that the poor have pretty keen
appreciation of a gentleman.
DR.. Magruder was a manly man with a
roomy, well-furnished mind. well abreast
with the best learning of the times, and
was emphatically bright physician. He
well illustrated Shakespeares ideal:
His life was gentle
And the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This is man."
How forcibly the life of our deceased
brother reminds us of the picture we some
times see hanging in a physicians office,
Ia -, a..
home of laborer A fevered child lies
upon pillow on chair with the light of
dim lamp turned upon its face, which
the doctor, with his hand upon the pulse.
and face full of anxiety, is watching.
The young mother has her face buried in
her hands, while the father, rough and
rugged, is looking at the doctor with half
frightened look. The crisis is approaching.
Was that humanitarian friend able to avert
the tragedy 1t seems as though the title
should be THE Country Doctor" In Mac
Charms Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush"
the country doctor is immortalized in DR..
Mcclure, big, honest, but tender as a woman
who gave up his life that others might live
When the loved old doctor was approach
ing the end of his last journey, he clasped
his hands and said:
This night lay me down to sleep,
pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If ! should die before ! wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take
Do you not think this petition was an
swered though the old doctor seldom at
tended church? For the Great Physician
said, Come, ye blessed of my Father, was
sick and we visited me? ?"
Therefore be it resolved, That the Secre-
tary of this society enter upon his minute
book record of the profound sorrow of
the officers and members of said society
at the passing away of its oldest member
and the loss suffered thereby;
And be it further resolved, That copy
of these resolutions be sent the family of
DIR. Magruder, with the sympathy of his
old associates, and that they be published
in the county papers.
EUGENE JONES, Chairman,
u. d. NOURSE,
F. N. HENDERSON.