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NAME MC GUIRE 742 MC GUIRE successfully to tie in continuity, in the same subject, with an interval of a month, both primitive carotids, in 1813, the second time the operation had been done. He was fol- lowed in 1827 by Reuben Dimond Mussey (q. v.), and in 1833 by Valentine Mott (q. v.), December 27, 1825. Macgill did the first lithotomy in Washington County, Maryland. In the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1827, vol. i, 240, is a review of a "Case of Hydatids of the Uterus, successfully treated by the Ergot," by W. D. Magill, M. D., of Hagerstown. He died at Hagerstown, March 13, 1833, at the age of thirty-one. Med. Annals of Md., Cordell, 1903. P „ Hist, of Medicine, Garrison, 1917, 528. New York Med. and Phys. Jour., 1825, iv, 576. McGuii-e, Hugh Holmes (1801-1875) He was born in Frederick County, Virginia, on November 6, 1801, and was the son of Edward McGuire, descendant from Thomas MorMcGuire, Lord or Prince of Fermanagh, Ireland, who was born in 1400. He read medicine with Dr. Robert Barton of Winchester, attended lectures in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and graduated there- from in 1822, the subject of his thesis being "Tetanus." He was a member of the Medical Society of Virginia. Settling in Winchester to prac- tise, he devoted himself specially to surgery and during his life did most of the surgical work in his section. He is said to have been the first Virginian to operate for cataract, doing the couching or needling operation with a needle made under his direction by a mechanic. He was the first in America to operate for club-foot. He cut directly down upon the tendons, severing all the tissues cov- ering them — a method which has been revived in recent years. A skilful lithotomist, too, he operated for stone more than thirty times without a death. Thus successful as a sur- geon, possessing both judgment and skill, he acquired a national reputation which led to his being called to the chair of surgery in schools in Philadelphia, New Orleans and Louisville — calls declined, however, as he pre- ferred the quieter life of a country town and work among his own people. When the Medical School of the Valley of Virginia was established at Winchester in 1826, he was made professor of anatomy and physiology and filled the chair until the school was disbanded. Upon its revival in 1850 he became dean and professor of surgery, and so continued until it ceased to exist on the out- break of Civil War, when, despite advanced age, he entered the Confederate Army as surgeon and served through the entire war. He married Anne Eliza Moss, and two of the sons. Hunter (q. v.) and William P., became physicians. He died at Winchester in 1875. Robert M. Slaughter. An unpublished biographical sketch by J. M. Toner, M.D. A steel engraving and photographs of Dr. Mc- Guire are in the possession of his son. Dr. W. P. McGuire, of Winchester, Va. McGu!re, Hunter Holmes (1835-1900) Dr. McGuire was born in Winchester, Vir- ginia, October 11, 1835, the son of Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire (q. v.), a surgeon of note, and the founder of the Medical College at Winchester, Virginia, and of Anne Eliza Moss McGuire, his wife. First he studied medicine at the Winchester Medical College, graduating in 1855, and in 1856 matriculating at both the University of Pennsylvania and at the Jefferson Medical College, but was soon taken ill and had to return home. In 1857 he was elected professor of anat- omy in the college at Winchester, but desiring greater clinical advantages, he resigned the position after one session and returned to Philadelphia. The intense sectional feeling aroused by the insurrection of John Brown in 1859 led to the calling of a mass meeting of the Southern students then in Philadelphia, at which it was determined that they should return South. The large majority went to Richmond and entered the College there, the remainder going to New Orleans. Having saved some money from the fees received from his pupils in the quiz classes, he paid the traveling expenses to Richmond of all stu- dents who were unable to pay it themselves. The number of these southern students was some three hundred. Dr. McGuire, who led the move, completed the course of lectures in Richmond and received a second degree. He then went to New Orleans and there estab- lished a quiz class, but the secession of South- Carolina soon after convinced him that war was inevitable, and he returned home and offered his services to his state. When Virginia seceded he volunteered as a private soldier in Company F, Second Vir- ginia Regiment, and marched to Harper's Ferry. Soon after he was commissioned sur- geon in the Virginia forces, and in May, 1861, he was made medical director of the Army of the Shenandoah, then under the command of Stonewall Jackson. Later, when Jackson organized the First Virginia Brigade, he re- quested that Dr. McGuire might be assigned him as brigade-surgeon. Thereafter he served