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 CALLENDER

CAMPBELL

Nicholson and Houston, Nashville, and soon after in the law department of the University of Louisville. The illness of his father, followed by his death, recalled him in a short time, and his legal studies were suspended and finally abandoned.

In 1853 he began to study medicine, taking his degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1S55. December, 1855, he became and remained for three years joint proprietor and editor of the "Nash- ville Patriot" when he was made pro- fessor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Shelby Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, until the Civil War.

He was one of the witnesses summoned to give expert testimony in the celebrated trial of Charles J. Guiteau on the question of his sanity, and after a laborious investigation pronounced him not insane, though leaving home with a different impression.

He was facile princeps in Tennessee as an authority in cases of insanity and diseases of the nervous system, and among the best alienists of the United States, whose really recognized experts may be counted on the fingers.

In 1S68 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical department of the University of Nash- ville, and in 1870 was appointed medical superintendent of the Tennessee Hos- pital for the Insane. The same year he was transferred to the chair of dis- eases of the brain and nervous system in the University of Nashville, and in 1S80 held the chair of physiology and psychology in the University of Nash- ville and Vanderbilt University.

I have a lively recollection, said his colleague Dr. Daniel Wright, of his lec- tures which had for their main subject the mode of action of remedies in the human system. In treating this subject he manifested a profound acquaintance for so young a man with the subjects of pathology and therapeutics, and applied that knowledge with an originality of thought still more remarkable. He mar- ried at Nashville, Tennessee, February 24, 1858, Delia Jefferson, daughter of

Dr. John Pryor Ford, and had one child, a daughter, Annie Mary.

Dr. Callender died in Nashville, Tennessee, in August, 1S96, of acute colitis. W. D. H.

Nashville Jour. Med. and Surg., 1896, vol.

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Tr. Med. Soo. Tennessee, 1897.

Campbell, Francis Wayland (1837-1905). Francis W. Campbell, Montreal, son of Rollo Campbell, graduated at McGill in 1S60 and was first registrar of the medical faculty of Bishops College when it was organized in March, 1S71. In 1S83 he was elected dean and professor of medi- cine, positions which he held till 1905, when the medical faculty was amal- gamated with McGill University. For ten years he was secretary of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. He received the degree of M. A. in 1871 and D. C. L. in 1S95 from the University with which he was associated. He was editor of the "Canada Medical Journal" from 1864 to 1872, and of the "Canada Medical Record" for thirty years more. For forty-three years he was connected with the militia of Canada and rose to the rank of surgeon-lieutenant- colonel. He died on May 4, 1905, from diabetes. A. M.

Campbell, George W. (1S10-1SS2).

His father was deputy-lieutenant of Dumbarton, his mother a daughter of Donald Campbell of Ardnacross, Argyle- shire. Dr. Campbell late in life became the head of an old branch of the clan and inherited a small entailed estate on the shores of Loch Long. He was a gradu- ate in arts and also in medicine of Glasgow University in 1S32, and came to Canada the same year, being in 1833 appointed to fill the chair of surgery, and to lecture upon obstetrics in McGill University. He taught midwifery till 1842, and surgery till 1875, when he resigned. Upon the death of Dr. Holmes in 1S60 he was elected dean and held that post till death in 1SS2. For eighteen years or more after 1835 he was physician