American Medical Biographies/Picton, John Moore White

by Jane Grey Rogers

Picton, John Moore White (1804–1858)

John M. W. Picton, physician, was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1804, and died in New Orleans, in 1858. Graduating in 1824 from the United States Military Academy, and in 1832 from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, he settled in New Orleans, where he practised for thirty-two years, acquiring great reputation as an operator. He served for many years as house-surgeon of the Charity Hospital and as president of the medical department of the University of Louisiana. Founder of the New Orleans School of Medicine in 1856, he was professor of obstetrics there until 1858.

Jane Grey Rogers.

Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1888.

The Medical Dept. of Tulane University of La. Med. News, N. Y., 1902.