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NAME GARLICK 427 GARLICK two years and learned the trade of a black- smith, but about 1818 travelled on to Cleve- land and learned stone cutting from Abner who had come west with him and had settled in that city. The next years were spent in Cleveland, on Black River or in Newbury, Geauga County, sometimes with one brother, sometimes with the other, but always engaged in either blacksmithing or the lettering of tombstones. Indeed, from the period when he left home in 1816 the doctor assures us that he never received any pecuniary aid from his father, but supported himself by his own work. In 1830 another brother, Anson, rented a farm in Brookfield, Trumbull County, Ohio, and joining this one, Theodatus resolved to study medicine and prepared himself for the work by collecting a large number of stones suitable for tombstones, and manufactured for himself the tools necessary to enable him to cut them properly. Having secured a suitable shop for his work, he then enrolled himself as a student of medicine with Dr. Ezra W. Gleason of Brookfield, and, after the removal of Dr. Gleason, with Dr. Elijah Flower, a reputable physician of the same town. His system of labor was to spend his morning hard at work in his shop, accomplishing if possible a full day's work in this time. At noon he removed his overalls, washed him- self clean and devoted the remainder of the day and the evening to the study of medicine. A careful pursuit of this rigid system enabled him to save some money, and in 1832 he felt able to meet the expense of a course of med- ical lectures. Accordingly he went on to Balti- more and matriculated there in the Washington Medical College. His chief aspiration was to become 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 resumed faithfully his old system of work and study, so that in the au- tumn he was again prepared to take another course of medical lectures. On this occasion, however, 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 dissec- tions 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 (q. v.) 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. Garhck 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 (.q. v.) of the college and led to the partnership which speedily en- sued. At all events. Dr. Garlick came to Cleve- land in 1852 and formed with Dr. Ackley a partnership which 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 beginning of which he himself dates very precisely as January 30, 1864. After an un- interrupted 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 1845. One son. Dr. Wilmot Hall Garlick, did not engage in medical practice. Dr. Garlick was an interesting character and a man of wonderful versatility. A coura- geous and skilful 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 midwifery he had performed version, embryotomy and Cesarean section. The manu- facture of a set of amputating and trephining instruments for his own use was one of his feats, and there is in the museum of the Cleveland Medical Library Association a pair of obstetric forceps, the handiwork of Dr. Garlick, which only very careful examination can distinguish from the work of the best instrument-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 bas-relief of Dr. Eli Geddings, the dean of the faculty, and of 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 President Andrew Jackson. The fine anatom- ical models constructed and colored by the doctor in 1851 were readily disposed of to va- rious colleges. Prof. R. D. Mussey purchased a set for himself, and declared them far superior ^ to the work of Auzoux of Paris. A number of casts of pathological specimens colored by Dr. Garlick were equally admired. It is also worthy of remark that in Decem- ber, 1839, Dr. Garlick made a camera with