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UPDATE 11-25-17 From L K Perry
The Evening Star
Washington, District of Columbia
25 January 1924 (page 7, column 5)
NOTED SURGEON DIES.
Dr. Edward L. Keyes Proved Mercury a Tonic.
NEW YORK, January 25.—Dr. Edward Lawrence Keyes, noted surgeon and dermatologist and a son of Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes of civil war fame, died at his home yesterday from pneumonia.
Graduated from Yale in 1863, he went to Paris, studying for several years at the University of Paris. He revolutionized the therapeutics of mercury by proving before the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876 that mercury was a tonic in small doses.
Dr. Keyes was born in Charleston, S. C. in 1843. He married Miss Sarah Loughborough of Maryland.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress
OF ST.GREGORY
H/O SARAH (LOUGHBOROUGH)
Genealogy
UPDATE 11-25-17 From L K Perry
The Evening Star
Washington, District of Columbia
25 January 1924 (page 7, column 5)
NOTED SURGEON DIES.
Dr. Edward L. Keyes Proved Mercury a Tonic.
NEW YORK, January 25.—Dr. Edward Lawrence Keyes, noted surgeon and dermatologist and a son of Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes of civil war fame, died at his home yesterday from pneumonia.
Graduated from Yale in 1863, he went to Paris, studying for several years at the University of Paris. He revolutionized the therapeutics of mercury by proving before the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876 that mercury was a tonic in small doses.
Dr. Keyes was born in Charleston, S. C. in 1843. He married Miss Sarah Loughborough of Maryland.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress
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