Biography of John Perkins Furniss, MD, Dallas, Alabama

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JOHN PERKINS FURNISS

     John Perkins Furniss, of Selma, Alabama, son of Dr. John P. Furniss, a native 
     of Maryland, was born September 24, 1841, near Columbus, Mississippi.  He graduated 
     from the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, in June, 1860.  During the Civil 
     War he was Assistant Surgeon in the Confederate Army; and was recommended in March, 
     1865, for promotion.  He received the degree of M. D. from the New Orleans School of 
     Medicine in March 1866, and settled the next month in Selma, Alabama, where he has 
     since remained engaged in the active and successful practice of his profession.  His 
     specialty is genito-urinary surgery.  He is a member of the Selma Medical Society, of 
     which he was secretary from 1869 to 1875, and vice-president in 1876 and 1877, and of 
     the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, and has served as a member of the Board 
     of Councilors.  He is the author of an essay on the "Anatomical and Physiological Peculiarities 
     of the Negro," which was published in the NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, 
      Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 621.