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T. A. Atchison, M.D., is a native of Kentucky and a graduate of Transylvania University. He practiced many years at Bowling Green, Ky., and removed to Nashville in 1855, where he has since held a fore- most position as a practitioner. For many years he has been Professor of General and Special Therapeutics and State Medicine in the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University.
W. A. Cheatham, M.D., is a native of Tennessee, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He commenced the practice of medi- cine in this city in 1845, and has been longer in practice here than any other man in the profession. From 1852 to 1862 he was Superintendent of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane.
J. W. Maddin, Sr., is a native of Alabama. He is a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville. He first practiced medicine in Texas, but after the war removed to Nashville, and has since practiced in partnership with his brother, Professor T. L. Maddin.
C. S. Briggs, M.D., is a native of Kentucky, though nearly his whole life has been spent in this city. He is a graduate of the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Nashville, and since 1883 has filled the chair of surgical anatomy and operative surgery in his Alma Mater.
O. H. Menees, M.D., is a native of this State, and was reared in Nash- ville. He is a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, and since 1883 has occupied the chair of general and special anatomy in his Alma Mater.
G. W. Hale, M.D., is a native of one of the Eastern States and a grad- uate of one of the medical colleges of the city of New York. He has practiced his specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, throat, and nose in this city for several years, and has achieved a fine success and reputa- tion.
George S. Blackie, M.D., is a native of Scotland, and was educated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, at the University of Bonn on the Rhine, at Berlin, and at Paris. He first was resident physician at Mowcroft private lunatic asylum, near London; then practiced medicine at Kelso, Scotland; and came to Nashville in 1857, which has been his place of residence ever since, with the exception of 1873 and 1874. His
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specialty is the natural sciences. He is a member of numerous medical societies, and has contributed largely to medical and literary journals.
W. K. Bowling, M.D., was a native of Virginia, born in 1808. He com- menced the study of medicine with Lyman Martin, M.D., of Owen County, Ky., and attended his first course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. He graduated from the Medical Depart- ment of Cincinnati College in 1836. He commenced the practice of med- icine in Logan County, Ky., where he set up a medical college in a cave, and filled all the professorships himself. As a member for Logan Coun- ty of the Constitutional Convention of 1849, he laid the corner-stone of public education in Kentucky. In 1851 he founded the Nashville Four- nal of Medicine and Surgery, and sustained it for twenty-five years. The same year he assisted in founding the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and was elected Professor of the Practice and In- stitutes of Medicine. In 1853 he delivered the oration at the laying of the corner-stone of the first public school building in South Nashville. He was connected officially with the American Medical Association many years. During his entire life he was an active and most successful prac- titioner of medicine.
Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, M.D., was of English descent, but was born in Georgia in 1806. He commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Charles D. Meigs, at Athens, Ga., graduating in 1828 from the Med- ical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. After practicing medicine for a year in Georgia, he prosecuted his medical studies in London and Paris. He then served in a hospital in Warsaw for some time, and, returning to the United States, was elected Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Georgia. In 1851 he was made Pro- fessor of Surgery in the University of Nashville, serving in that chair ten years. After serving as Professor of Surgery in the Missouri Medical College a short time, he returned to Nashville, and was appointed Pro- fessor of Operative and Clinical Surgery in the same university in which he had previously served ; and in 1877 he accepted the chair of principles of surgery and diseases of the genito-urinary organs in the newly founded Nashville Medical College. Dr. Eve was certainly one of the greatest and most successful surgeons that ever practiced in the Southern States. He died November 3, 1877. Two sons of Dr. Paul F. Eve are now en- gaged in the successful practice of medicine in Nashville-Duncan Eve, M.D., and Paul F. Eve, M.D.
John Berrien Lindsley, M.D., is a native of New Jersey, born October 24, 1822. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the Univer- sity of Nashville in 1839. He acquired his medical education in the of-
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fice of Dr. William B. Dickinson and in the Medical Departments of the Universities of Louisville and Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter in 1843. His medical studies were pursued as a part of a theological course, and he was ordained minister in 1846. In 1849-50 he attended medical lectures in Louisville, and in 1852 and 1859 he pursued his studies in France and Germany. In 1850 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and at the same time Dean of the Medical Faculty. From 1855 to 1870 he was Chancellor of the university, preserving it unharmed during the war. He is a member of numerous medical societies, and is the author of several works pertaining to Tennessee. He is at present Secretary of the State Board of Health.
James D. Plunket, M.D., a lineal descendant of Lord Plunket, of Ire- land, is a native of Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1863, and immediately entered the Confederate army, serving as surgeon during the remainder of the war. In 1865 he estab- lished himself in the general practice of medicine in Nashville, where he has resided ever since.
G. C. Savage, M.D., is a native of Mississippi, born in 1854. He com- menced the study of medicine in West Tennessee, and in 1876 and 1878 attended medical lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in May of the latter year. He practiced medicine in Jackson, Tenn., until 1880, when he returned to Jefferson College and took a post- graduate course, studying ophthalmology and otology. He returned to Jackson, and carried on the general practice in connection with his spe- cialty until 1884, but confined himself to his special practice in 1884 and 1885. During the latter part of 1884 and 1885 he studied in the hospitals of London and Vienna, and returned to Jackson, resuming only his spe- cialty. In July, 1886, he came to Nashville, having been elected to the chair of ophthalmology and otology in the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, which position he still holds. He is a member of the State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and of the Nashville Academy of Medicine and Surgery.
John Hill Callender was born in Davidson County, Tenn., November 28, 1831. He attended the best classical schools in Nashville until his seventeenth year, when he entered the University of Nashville, and re- mained a student until its suspension in 1850. In 1851 he entered the law office of Nicholson & Houston, Nashville, and soon afterward the Law Department of the University of Louisville. The illness of his father, followed by his death, recalled him from his legal studies, which a short time afterward were finally abandoned. After a short visit in St. Louis
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he returned to Nashville and began the study of medicine, taking his de- gree in the University of Pennsylvania in 1855. After three years' expe- rience as joint editor and proprietor of the Nashville Patriot, he was made Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Shelby Med- ical College, Nashville, Tenn., and remained in that position until 1861, when he was appointed surgeon in the Eleventh Tennessee Regiment, under General Zollicoffer. He resigned this position in February, 1862. In 1868 he was made Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and in 1869 he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, which position he still retains. The same year he was transferred to the chair of diseases of the brain and nervous system in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and in 1880 he was transferred to the chair of physiology and psychology in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University. In 1881 he was made President of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, and is the youngest man and the only man from the South ever honored with that position. He was one of the witnesses summoned to give expert testimony in the trial of Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, on the question of his sanity; and, though leaving home believing Guiteau insane, after a laborious investigation came to the conclusion that he was not insane. Dr. Callender is carefully trained in the classics, is a voluminous reader, has a most retentive memory and a wonderful power of analysis. His knowledge of men and things is so comprehensive and accurate that he is called by his friends and associates a "walking encyclopedia." In his specialty of the treatment of diseases of the mind he ranks among the foremost men in the United States. He was President of the section on Physiology at the Ninth International Medical Congress at Washing- ton in 1887.
Full biographical sketches may be found in the last chapter of this work, of Dr. Thomas L. Maddin, Dr. Thomas Menees, Dr. William T. Briggs, and Dr. John R. Buist.
The Medical Society of the State of Tennessee was incorporated by an act of the Legislature January 9, 1830. Its first meeting was ordered to be held in Nashville on the first Monday (3d) in May, 1830, boards of censors to be appointed for the three divisions of the State, to grant li- censes to applicants to practice medicine within its limits. There were named in the charter one hundred and fifty-four physicians, and ninety- seven were present at the first meeting. This meeting was held in ac- cordance with the requirements of the charter, and the organization was
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effected and completed by the adoption of a Constitution and By-laws, and a code of medical ethics. Officers were elected for two years, as follows: President, James Roane, of Nashville; Vice-president, James King, of Knoxville; Recording Secretary, James M. Walker, of Nash- ville; Corresponding Secretary, L. P. Yandell, of Rutherford County; Treasurer, Boyd McNairy, of Nashville. Charles Caldwell, of Transyl- vania University, being at the time in the city, was elected an honorary member of the society. The censors appointed for Middle Tennessee were: Drs. Douglass, Stith, Hogg, and Estill; for East Tennessee, Drs. McKinney and Temple; and for West Tennessee, Drs. Young and Wil- son. The society at the time of its organization passed a resolution em- phatically condemnatory of the habitual use of ardent spirits, and urgently recommending total abstinence.
In 1832 Dr. Roane was re-elected President of the Society; and Dr. King, Vice-president. In 1834 Dr. Felix Robertson was elected Pres- ident; and Dr. John Crisp, of Gibson City, Vice-president. In 1836 Dr. Robertson was again elected President. In 1840 Dr. Samuel Hogg was elected President; and Dr. A. H. Buchanan, Vice-presi- dent. In 1842 Dr. Buchanan, of Columbia, was elected President; and Dr. George Jefferson, Vice-president. In 1844 Dr. Buchanan was re-elected President; and Dr. Jefferson, Vice-president. In 1846 Dr. Buchanan was again re-elected President; and Dr. Daniel McPhail, Vice-president. In 1850 Dr. Watson was elected President. In 1853 Dr. Felix Robertson was elected President; and Dr. Haskins, of Clarksville, Vice-president. In 1855 Dr. Haskins was elected Presi- dent, followed in 1857 by Dr. Ford. In 1859 Dr. C. K. Winston was elected President; and in 1861 Dr. Avent was elected President; and Dr. Nichol, Vice-president. During the war no sessions were held, and the first one after its close was held April 20, 1866. At this meeting Dr. Robert Martin was elected President; and Dr. Nichol, Vice-presi- dent. In 1867 Dr. Lipscomb, of Shelbyville, was elected President; Dr. Menees, Vice-president; Dr. Du Pre, Corresponding Secretary ; and Dr. Plunket, Recording Secretary and Treasurer. In 1868 Dr. John D. Winston was elected President; and Dr. Grant, of Pulaski, Vice-president. In 1869 Dr. Grant was elected President; and Drs. S. P. Crawford, W. L. Nichol, and Frank Ramsey, Vice-presidents-one for each of the grand divisions of the State. In 1870 Dr. Manlove was elected President; and Dr. Towler, of Columbia, Vice-president. In 1871 Dr. Paul F. Eve was elected President; and Dr. William Batte, of Pulaski, Vice-president. In 1872 Dr. S. S. Mayfield was elected Presi- dent; and Vice-presidents as follows: Dr. P. D. Sims, East Tennessee ;
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Dr. B. F. Evans, Middle Tennessee; and Dr. B. W. Avent, West Ten- nessee. In 1873 Dr. C. C. Abernethy was elected President; and Dr. Wright, of Chattanooga; Dr. Woodson, of Gallatin; and Dr. Pearce, of Union City, Vice-presidents for East, Middle, and West Tennessee re- spectively. Dr. G. W. Currey was elected Corresponding Secretary; and Dr. J. D. Plunket, Recording Secretary. The officers elected in 1874 were: Dr. J. B. Murfree, of Murfreesboro, President; Dr. S. Y. Green, of Chattanooga; Dr. T. B. Buchanan, of Nashville; and Dr. P. T. Evans, of Union City, Vice-presidents for East, Middle, and West ยท Tennessee respectively. Dr. G. W. Currey, of Nashville, was re-elected Corresponding Secretary. In 1875 the officers elected were as follows : President, Dr. J. H. Van Deman, of Chattanooga; Vice-presidents, Dr. P. D. Sims, Dr. J. J. Abernethy, and Dr. P. F. Evans, for East, Middle, and West Tennessee respectively. Dr. F. M. Wight, of Chattanooga, was elected Corresponding Secretary. In 1876 the officers elected were as follows: Dr. J. J. Abernethy, President; and Dr. F. Bogart, Dr. J. H. Dickens, and Dr. S. T. Evans, Vice-presidents for East, Middle, and West Tennessee respectively. Dr. R. D. Winsett was elected Corre- sponding Secretary; Dr. Duncan.Eve, Permanent Secretary; Dr. J. W. McAlister, Recording Secretary; and Dr. J. D. Plunket, Treasurer. In 1877 Dr. B. W. Avent, of Memphis, was elected President; Dr. J. W. Copeland, Dr. B. F. Evans, and Dr. Heber Jones, Vice-presidents for East, Middle, and West Tennessee respectively. Dr. Duncan Eve was elected Permanent Secretary; Dr. A. Morrison, Recording Secretary ; Dr. R. D. Winsett, Corresponding Secretary; and Dr. J. D. Plunket, Treasurer. In 1878 the officers elected were as follows: President, Dr. B. F. Evans; Vice-presidents, Dr. E. M. Wight, Dr. H. J. Warmuth, Dr. D. D. Saunders, for East, Middle, and West Tennessee respectively. Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley was elected Permanent Secretary; Dr. A. Mor- rison, Recording Secretary; Dr. R. W. Mitchell, Corresponding Secre- tary; and Dr. J. D. Plunket, Treasurer. In 1879 the officers chosen were: Dr. E. M. Wight, of Chattanooga, President; Dr. B. B. Lenoir, Dr. N. G. Tucker, and Dr. G. B. Thornton, Vice-presidents for the three divisions of the State, commencing with East Tennessee. Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley was re-elected Permanent Secretary; Dr. A. Morrison, Recording Secretary; Dr. R. W. Mitchell, Corresponding Secretary ; and Dr. J. D. Plunket, Treasurer.
The officers since then have been as follows: Presidents: G. B. Thornton, M.D., Memphis, 1881-82; W. F. Glenn, M.D., Nashville, 1883; A. B. Padlock, M.D., Knoxville, 1884; D. D. Saunders, M.D., Memphis, 1885; Thomas L. Maddin, M.D., Nashville, 1886; W. T.
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Briggs, M.D., Nashville, 1887, P. D. Sims, M.D., Chattanooga, 1888; T. T. Happel, M. D., Trenton, 1889; G. A. Baxter, M.D., 1890. Record- ing Secretaries : C. C. Fite, M.D., Shelbyville, 1881-84; A. Morrison, M.D., 1885-86; D. E. Nelson, since then. Corresponding Secretary : A. Morrison, M.D., 1881-82; office then discontinued. Treasurers: V. S. Lindsley, M.D., Nashville, 1881-82; D. J. Roberts, M.D., 1884-85; R. Cheatham, M.D., 1886-89; J. P. G. Walker, M.D., 1890.
There was in existence for several years a Davidson County Medical Society, and also a Nashville Medical Society; but both of these have been discontinued. There is, however, an Academy of Medicine and Surgery, a brief history of which is here introduced.
The Nashville Academy of Medicine and Surgery was organized in April, 1886, with about thirty members. J. W. Maddin, Sr., M.D., was the first President ; N. D. Richardson, M.D., Vice-president ; and J. W. McAl- ister, M.D., Secretary and Treasurer. Since this first organization the of- ficers have been as follows: Presidents, T. A. Atchison, M.D .; W. A. Atchison, M.D .; J. S. Cain, M.D .; and James B. Stephens, M.D. Vice- presidents: W. T. Haggard, M.D .; C. W. Winn, M.D .; -- Hardin, M.D .; and G. C. Savage, M.D. Secretary and Treasurer: J. W. Mc- Alister, M.D. ; J. L. Watkins, M.D. ; Harlow Tucker, M.D .; and George H. Price, M.D. The academy meets every second and fourth Thurs- day in the month; and at each meeting cases are reported, an essay is read, upon which a discussion follows; and then a discussion upon some general topic. Cigarette smoking has been discussed, and it is now in contemplation to take up the subject of wearing mourning for the dead.
The Nashville Gynecological Society was organized October 15, 1889, with eight members. W. T. Haggard, M.D., was chosen President; James B. Stephens, M.D., Vice-president ; and Richard Douglass, M.D., Secretary. This Society is composed of specialists in this branch, and others who take an interest in the subject. Its purpose is to discuss gyn- ecology and hear read contributions upon the subject by its members and others. The officers are elected semi-annually, and at present are: W. L. Nichol, M.D., President; W. A. Atchison, M.D., Vice-president; and Richard Douglass, M.D., Secretary.
The first homeopathic physician to appear in Nashville was Dr. Philip Harsch, a native of Germany, educated at the University of Giessen, who came to this city in 1844. His acquaintance with the new system of med- icine was made in Cincinnati, Ohio, under Dr. Pulte. The success of Dr. Harsch in the treatment of Asiatic cholera in Nashville attracted at- tention to him, and inspired a confidence in the new system of practice. He continued in Nashville for a number of years, after the war devoting
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himself to agricultural and mercantile pursuits. He died in 1870, at an advanced age, from injuries received in a runaway of his horse.
The next practitioner in the new school was Dr. George Kellogg, who came to Nashville from New York in 1853. He remained here only about two years, leaving the city on account of ill health.
Dr. Henry Sheffield came to Nashville in 1855. He was a native of Connecticut and a graduate of the Cleveland (Ohio) Homeopathic Med- ical College in the class of 1852. He soon attained an honorable stand- ing among the physicians of Nashville, and is well known as a Mason as well as a physician.
Dr. R. M. Lytle was a native of Tennessee, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and a well-known surgeon in the Confed- erate army. Upon the close of the war he located in Nashville. He was distinguished as a diagnostician, taking in the case of a patient as by intuition. He practiced mainly in Edgefield. His sister was the first wife of Colonel E. W. Cole. He died in Nashville, while in full practice, of heart disease.
Dr. J. P. Dake was the next homeopathic physician to settle in Nash- ville, coming here in 1869. He graduated at Union College, Schenec- tady, N. Y., under the famous Dr. Eliphalet Nott, in 1849; and com- menced the study of medicine immediately afterward, under Dr. Gustavus Reichhelm, of Pittsburg, Pa., who was the first homeopathic physician west of the Alleghanies, arriving in Pittsburg in 1837.
Dr. Dake took a course in the Geneva Medical College, New York (old school), in 1850, being all the time, however, under the tuition of Dr. Reichhelm. He then took a course at the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia, graduating in 1851. He practiced in Pittsburg, Pa., as a partner of Dr. Reichhelm, until the latter moved to Philadel- phia, in 1853, when he succeeded to the practice of the firm, remaining in Pittsburg until 1863. For two years-from 1855 to 1857-he was en- gaged as Professor of Materia Medica in Hahnemann College. He was President of the National Homeopathic Society in the year 1857. In 1863 he was obliged to give up practice, on account of ill health. In 1869 he came to Nashville, and has since been engaged in the practice of medicine here almost continuously. When not thus engaged he has been traveling in Europe, where he paid great attention to the outfit and man- agement of hospitals, and has very decided views as to what they should be. While believing that the public hospital may be made of use to the medical student, he would not sacrifice the interests of the inmates for any clinical advantages to the student. He has long been known as an opponent of meddlesome legislation with the practice of medicine. He
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is in favor of the State exercising its power to compel every physician to state under oath what he has done to qualify himself for the practice of medicine, leaving the largest liberty to the individual sick in the selection of his medical attendant and the means of cure, and the greatest freedom on the part of the practitioner in the selection of the methods and means in the treatment of the sick. He believes that for boards of medical cen- sors to strive to compel all physicians to conform to some assumed stand- ard is absurd; and he regards medicine as a progressive science-as yet more an art than a science-and very far from perfect. He is looking forward to greater discoveries and great improvements as the light of ex- perience increases, and would have no barriers placed in their way.
Dr. Dake has exerted great influence for homeopathy in Nashville and throughout the South. His success in the treatment of Asiatic cholera in 1873 attracted attention throughout the entire country, he losing but one case out of sixty-three treated. He was appointed to discuss the subject of Asiatic cholera before the World's Homeopathic Convention, which met in London, Eng., in 1881, and delivered an address in accordance with that appointment. He is the author of a chapter on the same sub- ject in "Arndt's System of Practice," a cyclopedia of homeopathic medicine. He was one of a commission which made a report on the therapeutics of yellow fever in 1878, the members going on the field immediately after the subsidence of the epidemic, and collecting statistics which proved that under homeopathic treatment the mortality among yel- low fever patients was only about fifty per cent. of what it was under the treatment of the old school.
Dr. Dake has two sons in partnership with him in the practice of medi- cine : William C. and Walter M. Dake. The former graduated in 1872 at the University of Nashville, and afterward attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and the New York Homeopathic Medical College. He immediately began the practice of medicine in Nashville, and has continued in it ever since. He is widely known as an author on diphtheria. Dr. Walter M. Dake attended lectures in the Medical De- partment of the University of Tennessee, and afterward at Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, O. He afterward studied in the Hahnemann Med- ical College, Philadelphia, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1877. He then became associated with his father and brother in Nashville in the practice of medicine, and has thus continued to the present time.
Dr. Herman Falk was a native of Germany and a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in 1877. He practiced in Nash- ville for a number of years, and died in 1881.
Dr. Thomas E. Enloe, born in West Tennessee, graduated from the
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Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and began practice here in 1874. He has been in practice in Nashville ever since. He took the first prize in surgery at the time of his graduation. Upon the an- nouncement of his adherence to the new school of medicine, he was de- nounced by a certain medical journal as being a deserter from the prac- tice of "honorable medicine." In reply to this charge he published a pamphlet maintaining his right to choose for himself the best methods and means of cure. Having secured a proper education deemed sufficient for the practice of medicine, he considered himself competent to judge for himself. The result of the attack and reply was such as to place him at once in possession of a large practice, which he has since retained. Dr. Enloe is a brother of Hon. Benjamin A. Enloe, member of Congress from the Eighth Tennessee District.
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