Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions with anecdotes of pioneer life, and more than one hundred biographical sketches of distinguished pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, jurists, lawyers, divines, etc., Part 85

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870
Publication date: 1848
Publisher: Maysville, Ky. : Lewis Collins ; Cincinnati : J.A. & U.P. James
Number of Pages: 1154

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He returned to Lex ngton, and soon stood in the front rank of the profession His fame filled the southwest. and ur iel> ne was appointed to fill the anatomical and surgreat rheur of the Medical De- partment of Transylvania University. His appointment was convul with the successful esin- lishment of the Med cal College a: Lexington, of which he has been ever since. the principal support. For about thirty years past Dr. D has engryed an amount of reputation and influence which fewy pro- fessional men have ever atamed. Standing for many years at the head of Western surgery, h.s lecturea were highly prized by stadems, and the clear impressive manner an when he naparied his instruction made in indelible impress on upou their muus.

As a surgron he has not been a mere mechan. cal operator, but has strictly auended to constu- tional treatment .. Birner has success in the use of the karte. As a Minhatomat ne is probably nous. passed. He has operated upon the cases of stone in the bladder. Hisopera wns upon they have been very numerous. Among other important operations. he has performed the cranium in some twelve or more cases for the relief of epilepsy. In the treatment of chronic affections of the urethra

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end bladder. his views ars quite original. The most remarkable peculiarities of his practice, how- ever. are based upon his views of the utility of his favorite mstrument-the bandage. Its efficien- cy in the treatment of aneur. sm. fractures, ulcers &c., has been amply illustrated in his hands.

The ments of Dr. Dudley are strictly professional. In general Interature and science he has no pretensions. In his profession. his reputation is based upon his practice and his lectures; having done nothing by his pen for the benefit of the science, notwithstanding his ampie fond of profession- al'experience. With no intellectual reputation at the commencement of'h's career. he nas achiev- ed by his energy, skill and address, an enviable distinction : and will long be remembered as the dis- tingatshed surgeon of Kentucky. As the prominent man of the Transylvania school, the fact of his occupy ing for many years the two cheurs of Anatomy and Surgery, illustrates the importance at- tached to his services. The aggregate numbers of the classes to which he bas lectured. amount to hear & x thousand ; - 1660 is the number of graduates under his teachings. His personal appearance and manuer as a lecturer, are striking and impressive. His stature is moderate, his voice strong. though not somorons or loud ; his face marked by the lines which indicate a strong character ; and his head sach as would indicate to the phrenologist an influential and original mind.

DR. DANIEL DRAKE, for about thirty years, has been distinguished as a medical professor in the med. cal colleges of Lexington. Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Louisville. In the latter city he holds at present the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine. in the most flourishing institution of the Western country. No medical name is more extensively known in the Western and Southwestern Antes, than that of Dr. Drake,

Dr. D. was born in New Jersey, about sixty two years since. In his second year the family re- moved to Kentucky . In his professional career he has been identified with the West. Unlike Dr. Indies, the mients of Dr. Drake have been as showy in other departments as m his own profession. la g. nerat literature and science, and in the various social. moral and literary enterprises of the umnes, Dr. D. has been actively engaged. Having an extensive fond of information. an easy and fluent de- a very; with a find of humour, and even eloquence ; he has often been conspicuous as a public speaker on popular and professional subjects. The professional distinction of Dr. Drake has not ben of the solul practical character which commands the highest reverence of the members of the process on. Though familiar with medical literature, and capable of lecturing or writing in a pleas- my style upon the current topics of interest ; his prodnetions have not been of that extent or elabor- Ateness necessary to a very lasting reputation. Nor has his practical professional skill been conce- ded by all. In the course of a long and restless career, he has sometimes been engaged in strife with h.s professional brethren, and has therefore. decided enemies or opponents as well as friends ; be- twee whom there be some diference in their estimate of his professional worth. An impartial », remtor however. cannot but concede to Dr. D the possession of decided talent, varied acquire- suents and versatile powers ; with remarkable excellence as a public lecturer and miscellaneous professional writer. It has been said that Dr. D. contemplates the publication of ant elaborate medi- cal work, upon which he has been engaged some years. Such a publication would give his reputa- 1.on a more permanent basis.

UR CHARLES CALDWELL, one of the most d'stinguished medical Professors and most voluminode writers of America. is at present Professor of the Institutes of Medieme in the Louisville Medical lasnue Asa contemporary of Rich and Physie, he may be said to belong to a part generation ; but be -all re'a ns in an extraordinary degree his inexhaustible vigor of mind and body.

Da Caldwell was born in Caswell Co., N. C., about the year 1772. At nine years of age he was sont no school and after two years in the log cabin schools of Caswell and Cabarrus counties. was considered master of all their teachers could impart. Having surpassed all his schoolfellows. he was peridited by his tather to attend a Latin school. on condition that he allowed no fellow pupil to w.ipa-, h.m in his studies. The condition was fulfilled, and by the age of fourteen he had mus- Were I the Latin. Greek and a'l the other studies of the classical schools. His father wished hon to whyly D, vinity. but he declined : and taking an independent course. opened a grammar school m Ire- Ar flerumty, winch was attended by several pupils much older than himself. One year spent in this, and two d. ammer grammar school in that county. completed his seventeenth year. He then common- calle andy of medic'ne with Dr. Harris, of Salisbury. N. C. After a year and a half of private stads, be removed to Philadelphia, and graduated in the medical school of that city. in which Rush, Varan * ** ppen were professors. In 1795 he commenced his career of authorship by the trans- Iation of Bausenbach's Firements of Physiology. This period of his life was one of extraordinary man. t. being often engaged from eighteen to twenty hours of the twenty-four. in active men- Ha! ! car, and mining but four hours sleep! In this respect Dr. C. has been throughout his ige an Habentravle modelfor the amit ous student ; and even al the present time there are few young men wy can rival h sinemal activity and scholastic ass dunty. Knowing h.s habits, one need not be sur- je wat me extent of the literary labors. Dr. C. has written and published in the course of his life. a v ..! member of produchons-his essays. translations, pamphlets and books on various subjects have beest wanted to amount in the aggregate to more than ten thousand pages. and perhaps eleven thou- and would be nearer the truth. In reviewing the volumemons collect on. we are struck with the great Overs ly ath & writings-Med ene. thestory. Biography. Poetry and Fiction. Jurisprudence. Faire. rology, Education. Penal Law. Hygiene, Mesmerism, Philosophy, the Languages. Morais, the Pix seats eners, and the Ancient Classics have each been the subject of essays or volumes. He has made in the aggregate two hundred and eleven distinct publications. . Four-fifths of this numleer do not exceed fils pages in length-twenty-one are above 100 pages-thirteen above 200, and . of three hundred and upwards Notwithstanding the extent of his interary, and se vat. fie labora. Dr. C has not aclueved the cold and commanding reputation to which his abilities energy and per- verance were justly entitled. This may be attributed partly to the lack of concentration. Wring upon all subjects with gracefal taeildy. he has produced no imposing origmal work upon which h's Hope m ghtrest. . At the same time del going in philosophy and argumentative discussion. rather 100 1 proc real datas he has neu red the character of a speculative, rather than practica! writer and having a higher degree of mental liberalny than his contemporaries he has generally been too mach madvance of the age to be fully appreciated. His position has always been in the van. In Modeal for spendene. he was nenujunction with Dr. "ringham, the first in the United States to der vor acourse of lectures. The first course of element bettors in the Philadelphiah Aanshouse new Hockley Hospital) was delivered by Dr. (. He was the first prominent champion of Ihrenology it's Und Santes, and may be regarded as the father of the science in the country In Mestere- Joint 'o. he was one of the few distinguished men who openly and manfully espoused the cause of Benthic trati. in the face of pubee ridicule and opposition.

The pone pal professional labors of Dr. C. have been in the teaching of philosophical medi Be. in which he has been engaged nearly thirty years. as Professor of the Institute at Lexington med Louisville. In the former city he was the most distinguished member of the Faculty, by whom the

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medical department was successfully established ; and in the latter he may be regarded as the founder of the Medical Institute, having been the inest prominent actor in its establishment.

Prof. Caldwell ha's received many honors in the course of his life. and enjoy's a European, as well as American reputation. He has a remarkably venerable and distinguished personal appearance ; a dignified bearing ; a great flow of conversation, and inexnaustible energy. As a writer. he is always clear and instructive. Though somewhat diffuse in style. he has no idio verb.age -no ab- surd.t.es in thought-no viorations of good taste. In conversation. writing, or lecturing, he has ever the same strong. steady current of thought. Never inventive, but always independent in his views, never brilliant. but always polished ; never sublime. bat generally elevated : never enthusiastc. but always earnest; never very practical. yet always rational. instructive and us. fol : never rash in his intellectual progress. yet always in advance of most of his cotemporaries. It may be said, apon the whole, that few have done so much. and done so well ; and although not adapted to general poptr lar.ry. he has gamed a wide-spread reputation among liberal minds.

DR. JOHN MILTON HARNEY, a distingu shed poet. was the son of Major Thos. Harney. of Delaware. who emigrated to Tennessee, and settled near Nashville, in 1791. The birth of Dr Harney occurred in Sussex Co .. Delaware. March 9th, 1759. Major Harney was a gallant and accomplished gentis- man. and his traits ofcharacter have been inherited by his descendants. His youngest son. Col. W. S. Harney, has been distinguished as a brave and efficient officer in the Florida campaigns. and m the present war with Mexico. His eldest son, Dr. Benj. F. Harney. is the oldest surgeon in the U. S. Army. His second son. Dr. Jno. M. Harney, the subject of our sketch. manifested not only a vigo :- ous and bril ant intellect. but an exalted sense of honor, purity of Life and dignity of character.

We have but few details of the wife of Dr MI. It is known that he settled at Bardstown, Ky. in the practice of his profession, where he was much esteemed and admired. He married a daughter of Judge Rowan. m 1-14. by whom he had a daughter (now living.) Mrs. H. did not long survive the birth of her daughter. Atter her death. Dr. H. went to New York. visited England. Ireland, France and Spannt: and spent some time as surgeon in the naval service of Buenos Ayres. Sobsegnenny he settled at Savannah. where he edited with ability a political newspaper. Being out of health at the trine that a fire broke out in Savannah. hs exposure while laboring to extinguish the flames, produced an impression upon his constitution from which he never recovered. He returned to Ken- tucky. and died at Bardstown. Jan. 15, 1825, in his 36th year. In his later years, Dr. H. became deeply linpressed with the truth of Christianity, and after full investigation, adopted the Roman Catholic faith.

Dr. Harney possessed a highly poetical temperament. Ardent and firm. yet keenly, almost mor billy sensitive : generous, affectionate, grave and pensive full of romance and chivalry, his personal character was just what we should look for in the true eple poet. As a poet. although most of his productions have been lost. there is sufficient evidence that he was entitled to a high rank. Critics and poets who have been familiar with his writings, affirm that his genius was truly of a high order. In reading. after his. the works of Milton, Thompson, Pope and Cowper, we feel that Harry's was a kindred spirit, and that he might have won a place in the brightest constellations of either hemis- phere.

The principal evidences of his powers are now unfortunately lost, in consequence of the sudden deaths of individuals who had his manuscripts in charge ; but in his Cerstilling Favor Dream and some other of his productions, there is the evident impress of genius ; who knew him the impression of Ins mental superiority was firmly stam sensitiveness, he suppressed nearly the whole of the edition of his Crys the annoyance of unfriendly criticism. Subsequently for some years }. . hi preparation of an epic poem of some length. which is believed to have This, and many other productions of his pen, are probably irrecoverab those who knew and honored him. there was a consciousness of his pov ten manifestaron. and among those who enjoyed the perusal of his ma admiranon of his gemus. The classical scholar, the critic and the pot e Dubored the Name Harney.

DR. JOSEPH BUCHANAN. a philosopher, mathematician and mecha Washington Co. Va., Aug. 24, 17-5, removed to Tennessee in 1795, vis tion of his elacation in 1s04, and spent the remainder of his life chiefl literary occupations.

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His boyhood in Tennessee (on the Cumberland) was spent amid th life and poverty, with but trifling opporninities of education. In 19 : school near Nashville; where he spent five months. and by his rem his class-mates and obtained the reputation of a great gemius." Ha important invention for mills, he wished to devote his attention to the. but upon a cr uical review of his plan. discovered a defect, and gave .. the Academy, and in the course of nine months mastered the Laun le self by original composition. "He was so fond of or guiality in all " even condescend to write on any subject on which be had ever read

In 1-04 he was sent by lus guardian Major Edmonson. to Transylv Ky. Raste and & Aident-enteehled by cuense study and a pulmonary pleton. until his proficiency in mathematical studies again made him es guron'a Optics. be detected an error of the author in regard to the 1 professor sustained the author and put him down by author 's. Who. ded in. Buchanan gave in as h &, the disputed proposition concerning render it sufficiently long by a demonstration on the black board. non permet him to use the board and gain a mathematical trumph. I da mathemat end pamphlet of 20 pages, demonstrating the super ene motions and the in correctness of "the projectile velocity assigned by relied upon his own genius, with but little assistance from authors.

In 1 -03 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr & Brown : in mint prolengua note from glasses of dif rent cht cal compos conception of the Music of Itent. to beexecuted by meansat barmer ed. The invention has never been put into operation. but there can ' the one of the gran lest and most impoene spectacle ry. witness discovered that Father Castel and the Darw us and ante pated the in ety an esset of Il pages upon his discovery, strongly characterised by critical acumen. And igen> ons originally.

To procure the means of finishing his education at Philadelphia. be removed to settle and practice

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for a short time at Por: Gibson, Mississippi Territory. In 1907 he resolved to that place, where bo spent eight months, andere from the climate. practised his profession, and wrote a volume of 175 pare od the Subject of Fever, a th which he retroved to Philadelphia. Professors Barton and Rush spokoi guess the style. allty, and ingenuity of his essay, and offered their friendly services. But being att destitute of resources, he could neither publish his work, nor remain in attendance anon the sectores : and in ley he walked out m 27 days to Lexington, Ky., and settled at that place, empty in parte, but improved minalth. The degree of A. B. was soon after conferred upon him, by the Un.vers.ty.a' the instance of President Biythe.

He now directed his attention to the medical department of Transylvania. which had only a nomi natex tence, there being but one professor, who gave no lectures. The Trustees co-operating with han. a regular Faculty was organized, and he received (in 1:09) the appointment of Professor of the INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE. being then in his 24th year-five years from his arrival as & rusuc student from the wilds of Tennessee.

The fall of tsIt was fixed upon as the time for the opening of the medical session ; prior to which he was engaged in preparing his lectures. Dr. B. had. unfortunately, but little faith in the success of the piterpr.se-no. expecting an efficient support from any of his colleagues but Dr. Overon ; in whoin he had the highest confidence. Nevertheless he prepared his lectures, and being wholly en- grossed m writing and inventions, mode non Port to obtain practice. When he abandoned the attempt Begonianes nie phnomphical views (in lei2) in a volume of 36 pages, under OF HUMAN NATURE" of which a thousand copies were issued. This omfound tinker. It is a work of rare ment and notwithstanding the LA Belle ogical science. (with the latter of which he was an- hi : 12 .ook. qua voin the advice of his friends to abandon the medical

Kentucky the Pestalozz'an system of educa- ;vom. as introduced by Mr. Neef. and spent some dr .s. udom table mental activity withdrew min from "uresson of law, and delivered a course of law iec- Fagyd th, editing the Reporter, and writing on other sub- ir hard stady without deriving much profit from 131 " Philosophy" he reviewed in a masterly man- wwf his former arguments, one might by a deeper an- " a Jefferson. an democrat, a friend of Mr. Clay Palladium, at Frankfort ; the Western Soy de is. it louisville. The latter, which he projected in s.n. ( Dr. J. R. Buenanan, Prof. Institutes of manuscripts and sketches o important mechan xtr . my economical steam engine, which he success- Mory, and to steam navigation on the Ohio. way of fuel : but it was found that the spiral en . Usted by the impurities of the river water : and :. .. From the superior lightness and efficiency of in applicable to serial navigation. An experiment en which he had relied, had been erroneously 'pd n's engine npon land, to demonstrate its appli- Aran through the streets of Louisville in the presence

ser derived nom combustion without the aid of water or steam, Handl' " madame to be regretted that he never attempted is exe-

elocation. He published et Louisville a gram-

.o Holitate the study of grammar by youth. H.R ana Centhods admirable, and mealeuiobly superior 1. ons were fully realized. in the education of his wthe age of twelve, he was placed at the si dy of l a course of studies cinbracing grammar, ying. astronomy, natural philosophy. che- itutional law. Similar methods of educa- he Eelretic Institute of Lexington. produced the pupils of Mr. Perre-little boys sich as net and first lessons-were seen gravely treating apon chemistry and natural philosophy, web

Simple in his manners and tastes, amiable wy nd philanthropy -- original and ingen in the searching ana yeis of critical reason ho .. Fine which his energies had been concent rant; : ... he scorned the pursuit of wealth . asstrac- .y embarrassment-abandoned the road to

hat sure ction and novelty-wasted his powers a nepeut to fame-and as soon as the depile of "vanned and & kweller exhausted, became indifferent in all the

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Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870 Publication date: 1848 Publisher: Maysville, Ky. : Lewis Collins ; Cincinnati : J.A. & U.P. James Number of Pages: 1154

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870
Publication date: 1848
Publisher: Maysville, Ky. : Lewis Collins ; Cincinnati : J.A. & U.P. James
Number of Pages: 1154