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 GARNETT

GEDDINGS

with which he took one of the earliest daguerreotypes ever taken in this country (a landscape), and in the following year he was able to take likenesses of his friends with the same instrument.

Finally it should be recorded that Dr. Garlick was the first person in this country to essay the artificial culture of fish, an experiment which he carried out success- fully on the farm of Dr. Ackley, some two miles out of Cleveland, as early as 1853. His experiments and results were report- ed in a paper read before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences on Febru- ary 7, 1854, and were published under the title " A Treatise on the Artificial Prop- agation of Fish, with Description and Habits of Such Kinds as are Suitable for Domestic Fish Culture" in 1857. A second edition was published by the Kirtland Society of the Natural Sciences in 18S0. He was also an early member of the Ohio State Medical Society.

No portraits of Dr. Garlick, other than crayon drawings or photographs are known. H. E. H.

Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of the

State of Ohio, Part 1, Cuyahoga County,

1875.

An autobiography in pencil in possession of

his daughter.

Garnett, Alexander Velverton Payton (1820-1888). Alexander V. P. Garnett, of Essex County, prominent surgeon of the Confed- erate Army, came of a well-known Vir- ginia family. He was educated by private instructors on his father's plantation and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1841, his thesis being " Extrauterine Gestation." Soon after, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, and after five years' service in different parts of the world returned to the United States in 1848 and married Mary E. Wise, the daughter of the well-known Virginia governor, and retired from the navy and began to practise medicine in Washing- ton, District of Columbia. When the Civil War broke out Garnett chose the fortunes of his native state and entered

the Confederate Army as surgeon. He was the physician and intimate friend of Jefferson Davis and Gen. Lee. At the close of the war he resumed practice in Washington where by his skill and ur- banity he rose to be one of its first prac- titioners. Garnett was a classic writer on medical subjects and took active part in the medical life as well as in the pro- motion of all benevolent and charitable institutions of the capital. A. A.

J. Am. Med. Ass., Chicago, 1888, xi. Minutes of Medical Society, D. C, July 13, 1888.

J. B. Hamilton's " Remarks, " etc., Washing- ton, 1888. Trans. Amer. Climat. Asso. (1890-1891),

Twentieth Cent. Biog. Diet., 1904.

Geddings, Eli (1799-1878).

Eli Geddings was born in Newberry District, South Carolina, 1799. He re- ceived his early education in Abbeville County, South Carolina, and was licensed to practice by the Examining Board in July, 1820, in Charleston. In 1820-21 he took a course of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1S25 at the inauguration of the Medical College of South Carolina had the proud satisfaction of receiving the first degree at the first commencement. In the spring of 1S25 he went to Europe to attend Paris and London hospitals, especially the former. In May, 1S26, and for one year he discharged the duties of demonstrator of anatomy in his alma mater. In 1851 he was invited to accept the chair of anatomy and physiology in the University of Maryland and stayed there until 1837. While in Baltimore he edited in 1S33 the " Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal," a quarterly which was converted in 1834 into a monthly journal known as the "North American Archives of Medical and Surgical Sci- ences," and his prolific pen was often en- gaged in contributing valuable papers to the present "American Journal of Med- ical Sciences."

The chair of pathological anatomy and medical jurisprudence having been cre- ated for him, he returned to Charleston in