Brice W. Goldsborough was born in Princess Anne, in Somerset County on August 6, 1859. He was educated at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia from 1872 to 1878. He was a student of Professor Francis Donaldson and then was a student at the University of Maryland in 1878-79, and then received his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1880.
Dr. Goldsborough attended post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland in 1880-1881. He was on the medical staff at the Charity and British Hospitals in Montevideo, Uruguay from 1881-1883. He returned to Cambridge in Dorchester County in 1883 and began to practice there and was the county's Health Officer from 1885 to 1886.
He was the founder and Chief of the Medical Staff of the United Charities Hospital in Cambridge in 1898, when there were few hospitals on the Eastern Shore.
In 1901-02, Dr. Goldsborough became the Vice President of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and in 1909-10, he became President.
In 1921, on a canoe trip to the Canadian wilderness with Dr. Howard A. Kelly, Dr. Goldsborough became seriously ill. He was taken 40 miles in a canoe and Dr. Thomas Cullen, a friend from Baltimore, who also had a camp in Canada was called to operate on him. Before Dr. Cullen could arrive, Dr. Goldsborough's condition became so critical, Dr. Kelly (an OB/Gyn) was forced to operate. It was feared that Dr. Goldsborough would not live, and his family was summoned to Perry Sound, which is 140 miles north of Toronto, Canada.
He recovered, and spent his convalescence at his brother's house in Baltimore. His brother was US Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough. Dr. Goldsborough eventually died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge at the age of 69 in March of 1929.
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