Medical school: Columbia Medical College, 1861; University of Pennsylvania, 1865
Notes
McCullough says King was the first physician to reach Lincoln after the shooting, but the accounts of Dr. Leale and Dr. Taft suggest that King was second.
King was so named "because of his father's admiration" for that continent [Kunhardt p45]
King later became a professor of obstetrics in Washington, DC [McCullough]
In 1882 King proposed a method to eradicate malaria from Washington, DC: encircle the city with a wire screen as high as the Washington Monument. Many people took this as a jest, partly because the link between malaria and mosquitoes had, at that time, been *hypothesized* by only a few physicians. It was not until 1898 that Ronald Ross proved mosquitoes were a vector for malaria (he won the Nobel Prize for the discovery just four years later) [MuCullough 409-410, 422]. However impractical, King was on the right track for malaria control, well in advance of the rest of the medical profession.
References
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Kunhardt DM, Kunhardt PB Jr. Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights That Followed. New York: Castle Books, 1965.
McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977; page 143.
