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to spend his morning hard at work in his shop, accomplishing if possible a full day's work in this time. At noon he re- moved his overalls, washed himself clean and devoted the remainder of the day and the evening to the study of medicine. A careful pursuit of this rigid system en- abled him to save some money, and in 1S32 he felt able to meet the expense of a course of medical lectures. Accordingly he went on to Baltimore and matricu- lated there in the Washington Medical College. His chief aspiration was to be- come a good surgeon, and with this in view he devoted a large share of his time to careful dissection. In the spring of 1833 he returned to Brookfield and re- sumed faithfully his old system of work and study, so that in the autumn he was again prepared to take another course of medical lectures. On this occasion, how- ever, he matriculated in the University of Maryland, taking also a course of clinical lectures in the infirmary connected with that institution. Dissection of the human body was again his delight, and one of his dissections was commended by the professor of anatomy as the best made in the university. Graduating in the spring of 1834, Dr. Garlick remained in Baltimore until late in August assisting Dr. Nathan R. Smith in his operative work.

The winters of 1850 and 1851 were largely spent in Cleveland, and in the dissecting- room of the Cleveland Medical College, where Dr. Garlick devoted much time to dissecting the important surgical regions of the body and the preparation of plaster casts. It is probable that this work brought him into contact with Prof. Horace A. Ackley of the college and led to the partnership which speedily ensued. At all events, Dr. Garlick came to Cleve- land in 1S52 and formed with Dr. Ackley a partnership winch continued until a few months before the lamented death of that surgeon in 1859. Garlick's death was due to an obscure disease of the posterior spinal nerve roots, the begin- ning of which he himself dates very precisely as January 30, 1864. After

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an uninterrupted course of more than twenty years it resulted in his death December 9, 1884.

Dr. Garlick married three times. His first two wives were sisters, and daughters of his preceptor, Dr. Flower. The third wife, who survived him, was Mary M. Chittenden of Youngstown, whom he married in 1S45. One son, Dr. Wilmot Hall Garlick, did not engage in medical practice.

Dr. Garlick was an interesting charac- ter and of wonderful versatility. A courageous and skillful surgeon, he had twice tied the common carotid artery, thrice he had removed one-half the lower jaw, once he had removed for necrosis the entire outer table of the frontal bone, and in the allied department of operative mid- wifery he had performed version, embry- otomy and Cesarean section. The manu- facture of a set of amputating and tre- phining instruments for his own use has been already noticed, and there is in the museum of the Cleveland Medical Li- brary Association a pair of obstetric for- ceps, the handiwork of Dr. Garlick, which only very careful examination can dis- tinguish from the work of the best in- strument-makers of New York or Phila- delphia. But his life had also an artistic side. Even while in attendance upon the lectures of the University of Maryland in 1834 he made medallion likenesses in base relief of Dr. Eli Geddings, the dean of the faculty, and of the professors N. Potter, N. R. Smith, Robley Dunglison and Hall, all of which were so excellent that Dr. Garlick was invited to go to Washington and model a similar likeness of Pres. Andrew Jackson. The fine anatomical models constructed and colored by the doctor in 1851 have been already men- tioned, and were readily disposed of to various colleges. Prof. R. D. Mussey pur- chased a set for himself, and declared them far superior to the work of Auzoux of Paris. A number of casts of patholog- ical specimens colored by Dr. Garlick were equally admired.

It is also worthy of remark that in De- cember, 1839, Dr. Garlick made a camera