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in 18S3, Dr. Dawson was a veritable glutton for hard work. He would sit up reading until one or two o'clock in the morning, and at eight he would be in his consulting-room again. During this period be was bright, good- natured and jovial, as famous for his wit as for his learning and professional standing, for he was as popular with the profession as with the people. Soon after the death of his wife he began to lose interest in life and grew gloomy and morose, and in a few years was as peevish and irritable as he had formerly been bright and happy. In the winter of 1S93 he had an attack of influenza, but finally got out to work again, yet towards spring he had a second attack and was never well afterwards. Early in the summer he was taken to the Hospital of the Good Samaritan, but it was soon evident that he was a mental wreck, and he was transferred to the College Hill Sanatorium, where he died February 16, 1893. C. A.

W. W. Dawson, Obit., Cincinnati Lancet- Clinic, March 4, 1S93, n. s., vol. xxx (T. A. Reamy).

Deaderick, William Harvey (1773-1858). William Harvey Deaderick was born at Winchester, Virginia, November, 10, 1773, and died at Athens, Tennessee, October 29, 1858. He was a graduate in medicine and began practice at Green- ville, Tennessee. Shortly afterwards he moved to his farm at Cheeks' Cross Roads, Tennessee, where on February 6, 1S10, he removed the left inferior maxilla. The patient was a boy (Jesse Lay) fourteen years of age. There was an excresence or enlargement of the bone which nearly closed the buccal cavity and presented a large tu- mor outside. The bone was sawn through at the chin and near the joint. The growth was said to have been an osteosarcoma, but the fact that there was no return of it makes that diagnosis doubtful. The scar was, in time, com- pletely hidden by a luxuriant growth of whiskers.

After a through investigation the fact was established that Dr. Deaderick was the first surgeon to remove the lower jaw- bone. His claim as the originator of the operation is justly recognized by Mott in his " Velpeau," by Smith, in his " Opera- tive Surgery," by South, in "Chelius' Sur- gery," and others; notwithstanding, other claims to priority have arisen, all how- ever proven to have been subsequent to Deaderick.

On May 26, 1S07, he married Penelope Smith, a daughter of Col. Joseph Hamil- ton, and had nine children, five sons and four daughters — Thomas, Joseph, Will- iam, Alexander, Robert, Penelope, Anne Eliza, Margaret ta and Frances.

Dr. Deaderick's second wife was Mrs. Lois Ashworth, by whom he had a daugh- ter, Mary McKim.

After living some years at Cheek's Cross Roads he went to Athens, Tenn- essee, where he lived many years. His professional contemporaries and his in- timates have said that his character em- bodied many excellent qualities and he was considered one of the best equipped physicians and surgeons of his day, no less distinguished for his exemplary piety and high moral tone than for his professional accomplishments. C. D.

Athens Post, 1857.

N. Am. M. Chir. Rev., Phila., 1858, ii.

Dearborn, Henry (1751-1829).

The son of Dr. Simon Dearborn, a phy- sician of Hampton, New Hampshire, he, like his father, was educated to be a phy- sician and practised many years at inter- vals in both New Hampshire and Maine, so that although better known as Gen. Dearborn, there can be no doubt that he should be included among the eminent medical worthies of America.

He was born in Hampton, New Hamp- shire, February 23, 1751, and after having such school education as that small vil- lage afforded, studied medicine with Dr. Hall Jackson of Portsmouth, one of New Hampshire's remarkable physicians.

Dearborn, after doing some practice for two or three years with Dr. Jackson, was