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NAME PATTISON 896 PATTISON ders of the Musical Fund Society of Philadel- phia; its president, 183S-1853. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1839. Patterson married Helen Hamilton, daugh- ter of Thomas Leiper, the Revolutionary soldier and patriot. }ie died September 5, 1854. Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, now deceased, H. Simpson, 1859. University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1900, .T. L. Chamberlain, 1902. Pattison, Granville Sharp (1792-1851) Granville Sharp Pattison, according to his biographer, S. D. Gross, was a noted teacher of visceral and surgical anatomy. The youngest son of John Pattison, of Kel- vin Grove, Glasgow, he was educated at Glas- gow, and at seventeen began to study medi- cine, being admitted as a member of the fac- ulty of the Physicians and Surgeons of Glas- gow in 1813. He acted, in 1818, as assistant to Allan Burns, the lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Andersonian Institute in that city, but only held the office for one year, and was succeeded by Dr. Wil- liam McKenzie. He came to Philadelphia in 1818, and lec- tured privately on anatomy, but was disap- pointed in not obtaining the chair of anatomy which had been promised him by the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. In 1820 he was ap- pointed to the chair of anatomy, physiology and surgery in the University of Maryland, in Baltimore, a position he filled for five 3'ears. He then resigned on the ground of ill-health. During this period he edited the second edi- tion of Burns' "Observations on the Sur- gical Anatomy of the Head and Neck," which was published in 1823. Pattison had a prolonged quarrel with Dr. Nathaniel Chapman (q. v.), of Philadelphia, culminating in 1822 in a duel between Gen. Thomas Cadwalader, Chapman's brother-in- law who had espoused his cause, and Pattison. They met somewhere in Delaware ; Cadwala- der received the ball from Pattison's pistol in his "pistol arm," which was thereby disabled during the remainder of his life. Pattison was uninjured, but "a ball passed through the skirt of his coat near the waist." Pattison returned to England in 1826. In July, 1827, he was appointed and for a short time occupied the important post of professor of anatomy at the University of London (now University College), acting at the same time as surgeon to the University Dispensary, which preceded the foundation of the North London Hospital. This position he was compelled to relinquish in 1831 on account of a disagree- ment with the demonstrator of anatomy. In the same year he became professor of anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he received the M. D. degree. He was appointed professor of anatomy in the Uni- versity of New York on the reorganization of its medical department in 1841,- a position he retained until his death. He was the author of "E.xperimental Ob- servations on the Operation of Lithotomy" (Philadelphia, 1820), and of much contro- versial matter of ephemeral interest. With Eberle, Ducachet and Revere he edited in 1820 the American Medical Recorder and the Reg- ister and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, Washington, 1833-36, and was co- editor of the American Medical Library and Intelligencer, Philadelphia, 1836. He also translated Masse's "Anatomical Atlas," and edited Jean Cruveilhier's "Anatomy of the Human Body." Pattison brought to Balti- more the anatomical collection that had been bequeathed to him by his master, Allan Burns. The faculty of the University of Maryland bought it for $8,000. This was the beginning of the Museum of the University. It is probable that no anatomical teacher of his time attained a higher reputation. His reputation lay in his knowledge of visceral and surgical anatomy, and in the practical ap- plication of this knowledge to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, accidents and op- erations. His earnest manner and clever dem- onstrations made him very popular in the lecture room. He possessed a singularly at- tractive eloquence, that left a lasting impres- sion upon the audience. Gross, who was a personal friend, said that he had a slight lisp and a Scotch accent, which never entirely left him. He had little taste for surgery and abandoned it in his later years. Pattison was actively interested in the estab- lishment of the Grand Opera House in New York City. He was fond of music, hunting and fishing, and had a naturally, somewhat in- dolent nature and love of ease, or otherwise would probably have attained a much more lasting reputation as an anatomist. He died of obstruction of the ductus com- munis choledochus in New York, November 12, 1851, leaving a widow, whose maiden name was Sharp, but no children. ."Vutobiography, Dr. S. D. Gross, 1887, vol. ii. Diet. Nat, Biog., Lond., 1895, vol. xliv. D'Arcy Power. N. Y. Jour, of Med., 1SS2, n. s., vol. viii. Lancet, London, 1830-1. vol. ii. Gent. Mag., 1852, vol. i. New York Jour, of Med., 1852, Jan., vol. viii.