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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3053woods and far from hospital and other facilities. He has one of the youngest,if not the youngest, one arm patients in Georgia. The amputation, which wasmade on a,, child of fourteen mon^is, was for a sarcoma, or cancer, of thearm above the elbow, after "surgeons had refused to do it. The result was aperfect success and a complete recovery. The child is growing and developingnicely.Doctor Barter is a member of the Masonic Order, of the Independent Orderof Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the "World. He is a lover of outdoorsports, and at the same time is devoted to the studious features of his profession. He takes much interest in educational matters, and particularly inthat broad phase of public education relating to -sanitation and public health.His people are all active members of the Methodist Church and he is himselfactive in church affairs and usually serving on some committee or other inhis own denomination. While in college and an interne at Augusta Hospitalhe was a member of the hospital board. He has for the past two years beenpresident of the City! Board of Health of Carrolton and is county physicianof Carroll County. In politics he is a democrat. Doctor Barker is a memberof the County and State Medical societies and of the American Medical Association. Among other interests he owns land and does some farming, particularly in the line of scientific truck farming.\LOVICK PIERCE HEBRINGTON, M. D. A physician of the highest attainments whose practice has been largely confined to Burke County, where hewas born, Doctor Herrington is probably best known as an authority on thecauses and treatment of the malarial diseases peculiar to the State of Georgia.In fact he has been credited with being foremost in this particular departmentamong the medical men of the South. When he began practice in BurkeCounty many years ago the disease probably most prevalent there was malaria.Hundreds of cases of this disease came under his personal observation. Hewas not content to prescribe the routine remedies and treatment of thismalady, but instead began a thorough study and research in order to discoverthe cause, and working from that an effectual remedy. Following outlinessuggested by Government reports, he finally demonstrated that the diseaseoriginated chiefly in the sting of a mosquito that bites only at night. Havingdiscovered the cause, the remedy was next in order. He originated what isknown as Doctor Herrington's Pills for Georgia People, which have sparedthousands of people the ill effects of the dreaded malaria, and have savedmany lives and relieved a considerable section of the population from oneof the most disabling ills to which human flesh is heir.Born in Burke County May 27, 1858, Lovick Pierce Herrington is a sonof Berry and Frances (Milton) Herrington. His parents were also born inGeorgia, where his father was for a number of years a planter and cottonraiser in Burke County. During the war he enlisted in the Confederate army,served with the militia in Burke County as a private, and was also a memberof a general's staff. His death occurred in Burke County in 1886 at the ageof sixty-seven. The mother died in 1895, aged sixty-eight years.Doctor Herrington was one of a family of twelve children. As a boy heattended the common schools, took the academic course at Emory College,and from there entered the medical department of the University of Georgia at Augusta, where he was graduated M. D. in 1884. Several years laterin 1887 he took post-graduate work in the Vanderbilt University at Nashville.For fifteen years Doctor Herrington was located in practice at Girth in BurkeCounty, but since then has been in practice at Waynesboro. His professionalcareer covers more than thirty years, and his kindly services have gone to thousands of patients in that time. For several years he served as county physician, and is now chairman of the board of health at Waynesboro. He is amember of the county and state medical societies and the American 'MedicalVol. VI 18