Memphis Medical Monthly [FORMERLY MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL MONTHLY.] SUBSCRIPTION PER ANNUM, ONE DOLLAR. The MONTHLY will be mailed on or about the fifteenth of the month. Subscribers failing to receive it promptly will please notify us at once. Original communications, etc., should be in the hands of the Editor on or before the first of the month of publication. We cannot promise to furnish back numbers. Clinical experience—practical articles—favorite prescriptions, etc., and medical news of general interest to the profession, solicited. All communications, whether of a business or literary character, should be addressed to the Editor. F. L. SIM, M.D., EDITOR, DR. J. W. PENN, the subject of our photogravure for this month, is of Old Virginia extraction and a lineal descendant of William Penn. He was born August 31st, 1836, in Gibson county, Tenn., near the place of his present residence. His mother was a South Carolinian, a daughter of Thomas Broughton, a revolutionary patriot who fought during the entire seven years of the war in Gen. Marion's command. Dr. Penn's parents were married in Rutherford county, Middle Tennessee, in the year 1825, where they remained about eight years, when they removed to West Tennessee and located on a farm in Gibson county. The doctor's father, a Virginian by birth, was a farmer, and the subject of our sketch labored with him until sixteen years old, during which time he mastered the curriculum of studies prescribed by a very excellent high school in his native county. At the age of twenty years he began the study of medicine under Dr. C. T. Love, remaining with him for one year, and ultimately completing his office career under the instruction of Dr. Joseph W. Davis, of Smyrna, Tenn. After fully complying with the requirements of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and gaining for himself a reputation as a painstaking and diligent student, he graduated therefrom in 1859. VOL. XII - 9 He entered at once into active practice, associated himself with his first preceptor, but in the spring of 1860 he withdrew from this relationship, and formed a copartnership with his father-in-law, Dr. W. H. Stillwell, and located in Humboldt, where he has continued to reside and where his superior skill in the treatment of disease, his diligent application to professional studies, his promptitude in obeying the mandates of his profession, and his punctuality in meeting professional engagements, have won for him the public confidence and secured to him a numerous clientele. Dr. Penn has long been noted in the field of his labor, and indeed throughout the State, for his ability, originality of thought, his care in diagnosis and prognosis, and the rapidity with which he reaches exact conclusions has often been likened to the facility and quickness of a Radcliff in this line of perfection. He has always upheld legitimate medicine, and as a dignified gentleman has done much to mould the habits of his local profession. He has ever eschewed medico-political intrigues, and his honorable and gentlemanly intercourse with his brother practitioners has proven him worthy his noble ancestry and the profession of his choice. He has not labored with "an eye single" to money-making, but earnestly and with proper dignity, for the good of a glorious calling. Dr. Penn's labors have done much to maintain the honor of the profession in West Tennessee, and to arrest the ill-timed efforts of those who, from motives of personal aggrandizement and greed, would traduce their calling and humiliate the brotherhood in efforts to fabricate mushroom growths for themselves. He is liberal to a fault, and in consequence has failed to accumulate largely of the wordly lucre. In christian faith he is a Presbyterian, is an elder in his church, but free from bigotry and intolerance. Although punctual in the discharge of his obligations to his church, he never permits such duties to con |