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2009-10 Medical Alumni Board Martin I. Passen, ’90 President Otha Myles, ’98 President-Elect Nelson H. Goldberg, ’73 Vice President Tamara Burgunder, ’00 Treasurer Victoria Smoot, '80 Secretary Protagoras Cutchis, ’83 Donna S. Hanes, ’92 Joseph M. Herman, ’00 Charlotte M. Jones-Burton, ’99 Joseph P. Martinez, ’98 Michael K. McEvoy, ’83 Jerome Ross, ’60 Elizabeth Tso, ’79 Katherine N. Wex, ’00 Directors |
16th Historical Clinicopathological Conference
Progressive Glomerulonephritis
Doomed Sailor
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considered by many as the father of the United States Navy, died at age 45 of kidney failure probably brought on by a viral or bacterial infection. The diagnosis was made during the 16th Historical Clinicopathological Conference in historic Davidge Hall.
The conference, devoted to the modern medical diagnosis of disorders that affected prominent historical figures, featured Matthew R. Weir, MD, professor of medicine and director of Maryland’s division of nephrology, as well as Lori Lyn Bogle, PhD, associate professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Jones, born as John Paul in Scotland in 1747, first went to sea at age 13 and became a captain at 21. He was a spectacularly successful officer during the American Revolution. Despite his naval prowess, Jones experienced recurring health problems beginning at age 26. Weir theorized that the interstitial nephritis was the end result of this progressive disease. He also had pneumonia, an incidental finding not likely related to the kidney disease.
