Background
Edmund was born near Hillsboro, North Carolina, United States. He was the son of William Francis Strudwick, who had served as a member of Congress in 1796-97, and of Martha (Shepperd) Strudwick.
(Excerpt from An Address Before the Medical Society of the...)
Excerpt from An Address Before the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, at Its First Annual Communication, in Raleigh, April, 1850 Permit me to allude to a few of the extravagant appendages of the medical profession - Homepathy and Hydropathy - sys tems containing some truth, though largely diluted with error. The inappreciable doses of Homcepathy is a pretty apt illustra tion of the expectant plan of treating disease, and operate like doses of confidence, which are often of signal advantage. Who would at this day renounce cold water as a Therupeutic agent? Yet how vain the attempt to invest it with the virtues of a pana cea - vainer still the attempt to dignify Hydropathy with the appellation of science Heat and Steam are also valuable agents, but admit not of that universal application in the practice of medicine, which is claimed for them by the misguided and fa natical Thompsonian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Edmund was born near Hillsboro, North Carolina, United States. He was the son of William Francis Strudwick, who had served as a member of Congress in 1796-97, and of Martha (Shepperd) Strudwick.
He began the study of medicine under a local physician, James Webb, and received the M. D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1824.
Strudwick remained in Philadelphia two years, practising in the alms house, and then returned to take up practice at Hillsboro in 1826.
While engaging in a general practice, he became particularly interested in surgery and proved to be unusually skilful in this field. He performed scores of operations for cataract, by the old needle method, without the loss of an eye, and he was also noted as the leading lithotomist in his state. This did not mean, however, that he became a specialist in the modern sense; indeed in courage, skill, and devotion to his patients he represented the best type of the heroic "country doctor. "
He remained a "Union man" until 1860, when a visit to Alabama convinced him that, regardless of right or wrong, North Carolina must inevitably side with her sister states "in resisting the coercion of the North. "
He presided over the first war meeting held at Hillsboro on April 14, 1861, supported the Confederacy most loyally thereafter, and was financially ruined as a result. Refusing to take advantage of bankruptcy proceedings, he surrendered everything to his creditors and took up life anew in a two-room cottage.
He continued his practice until the day of his death, which was occasioned by accidental poisoning with atropine.
(Excerpt from An Address Before the Medical Society of the...)
He also was an elder in Hillsborough's Presbyterian Church.
He was an active Whig in politics.
He remained a "Union man" until 1860, when a visit to Alabama convinced him that, regardless of right or wrong, North Carolina must inevitably side with her sister states "in resisting the coercion of the North. "
He was married to Ann E. Nash, the daughter of Frederick Nash. They had five children.
