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were the Rev. Thomas Maddin, D. D., and Sarah Moore.

The son was educated in the common schools of Middle Tennessee and North Alabama and his medical education was gained under Dr. Jonathan McDonald, of Limestone County, Alabama, and he graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville.

Constant overwork in a large country practice in Alabama proved a severe trial to a physical constitution never very stout, and he went to Nashville, Tennessee. The opportunities for med- ical observation offered him in Alabama were various and extensive, and a num- ber of serious epidemics of typhoid fever gave him large experience in disease.

In 1854 Dr. Maddin commenced private tuition in the various branches of medi- cine, and erected rooms for that purpose. For several years his classes were large, and his reputation as a teacher great. In 1857 Shelby Medical College was founded as the medical department of a projected university of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church South, which has since developed into the Vanderbilt Uni- versity. He occupied for two years the chair of anatomy there, and afterwards that of surgery. At the time of the war, Maddin was in charge of one of the largest of the hospitals established in Nashville by Confederate authorities. During the subsequent years of the war, the large number of wounded quartered in and near the city afforded Dr. Maddin an ex- tensive surgical experience, and he per- formed a number of interesting opera- tions, notably two for traumatic aneur- ysm. One of these required the ligature of the external iliac artery, the aneurysmal tumor extending from the inguinal region to a line drawn from the crest of the ilium to the umbilicus. The other was an an- eurysm of the left subclavian artery, ne- cessitating the ligature of that artery in its middle third and a number of sub- sidiary vessels. The delicate operation, which from its difficult and hazardous nature was declared inadmissible upon consultation with Dr. Frank H. Hamilton,

then medical inspector of the army of the Cumberland, was witnessed by that sur- geon, who also gave his assistance. It was pronounced by him, resulting as it did in the relief of the formidable tumor, a great surgical triumph. In the circuit of his private surgical practice. Dr. Mad- din is also credited with the first success- ful ovariotomy performed in Tennessee.

In 1867, Dr. Maddin was called to the chair of institutes of medicine in the med- ical department of the University of Nash- ville, and after several years' acceptable service therein was transferred, about the time of the alliance of that institution with the medical department of Vander- bilt University, to the chair of theory and practice of medicine and clinical medi- cine.

Dr. Maddin was a member of the State Medical Society, the County and City Medical Societies, and contributed a number of able papers to their archives, and also to the medical journals of the time. For several years he was co- editor of the "Monthly Record of Medi- cine and Surgery," published at Nash- ville.

He died April 27, 1908, at his home, 109 Ninth Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee.

W. D. H.

Mann, James (1762-1832).

James Mann, surgeon of the United States Army, graduated at Harvard Uni- versity in 1776 and studied medicine under a Dr. Danforth. For three years he served as surgeon in the Continental Army and in 1812 was appointed hospital surgeon in the United States Army and rendered valuable service as head of the medical staff on the Canadian frontier. He is the author of "Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812,'13, and '14," a most interesting book, which was pub- Hshed in 1816. He died in New York in 1832.

A. A.

Toner, Collect. Med. Biogr., Congress. Libr., Washington.