Robert King Stone (December 11, 1822 – April 23, 1872) was an American physician andprofessor at Columbian College Medical School, the predecessor toGeorge Washington University School of Medicine. He was considered "the dean of theWashington, D.C. medical community".[1][2]
Stone servedU.S. PresidentAbraham Lincoln during the years of theAmerican Civil War, frequently treating maladies from the Lincoln family.[3] Stone was present at Lincoln's deathbed and at hisautopsy in 1865.[1][4] Stone was one of 14 doctors to attend President Lincoln at his death bed.[5] Stone was the only witness to his condition at the military tribunal,[5] and his testimony has been shared by theNational Archive of the United States.[6]
Stone was born December 11, 1822, inWashington, D.C., the son of engraver William J. Stone and his wife Elizabeth Jane Lenthall.[7] Lenthall was the daughter ofJohn Lenthall one of the architects of theUnited States Capitol.[7]
He received his medical degree from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in 1845 and visited major hospitals of London, Paris and Vienna before starting his own medical practice in the United States in 1847.[8] Stone specialized in eye problems and was professor ofOphthalmic andAural Surgery.[9]
At the time of his death, fromapoplexy, he was one of the most prominent physicians in Washington, D.C. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth J. Stone, who died in 1892.[8]
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A collection of his papers is held at theNational Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.[10] Stone's "lost" report of the Lincoln autopsy was discovered in 1965 and examined byJohn K. Lattimer.[11] Some of his notes of the autopsy were displayed at theFenimore Art Museum inCooperstown, New York.[12]
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