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PATTISON
1866 to 1874, profes.sor of medical juris-
prudence in the Chicago Medical College.
He was a large man, five feet ten inches
high and of heavy build. His hair;
brown, his eyes hazel; in manner very
quick. He was a good and ready
talker, but seldom told stories. A little
anecdote of his childhood, however, he
was fond of narrating. One Sunday
morning he ran away from church and
caught a fine string of trout. Not daring
to bring them home on that day, he hid
them. Monday, the time still looked
suspiciously close to Sunday, so he
waited still longer. Tuesday he decided
it would be all right to go and bring home
the fish. Alas! the fish were spoiled.
This very deplorable fact led to inquiry
and detection. His parents dealt with
him after the manner of the real New
Englander of that time. And, as the
doctor was himself wont to say, in all the
affairs of his subsequent life, he was
more inclined to give particular attention
to "prognosis." He was exceedingly
fond of driving a fast horse. 'T take my
exercise," said he, "vicariously." He
made friends quickly and was fond of
cliildren, but very seldom played with
them. He married Lucy Clark, of Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, in 1848. He wrote l)ut
little in connection with his specialties
(outside the lectures which he de-
livered at the Chicago Medical College)
but was wholly absorbed in the work of
teaching and practising. He was an
excellent hand with the knife in more
senses than one, and used to spend long
hours in whittling and joining together
new models for hospital furniture. He
used to say, "Every boy who intends to
be a physician should learn how to
whittle." The clause in the Illinois law
for the commitment of the insane, which
provides for the appointment of a medical
commission by a judge of court, in lieu of
a jury trial, was entirely owing to his
strenuous efforts.
He died at Batavia, Illinois, April 27, 1893, after a few days illness, of pneumonia.
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Pattison, Granville Sharp (1791-1851).
The youngest son of John Pattison, of Kelvin Grove, Glasgow, he was educated at Glasgow, and at seventeen began to study medicine, being admitted as a member of the faculty of the Physicians and Surgeons of Gla.sgow in 1813. He acted, in 1818, as assistant to Allan Burns, the lecturer on anatomy, physi- ology, and surgery at the Andersonian Institute in that city, but only held the office for one year, and was succeeded by Dr. William McKenzie.
He came to Philadelphia in 1818, and lectured privately on anatomy, but was disappointed in not obtaining the chair of anatomy which had been promised him by the University of Pennsylvania. In 1820 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy, physiology and surgery in the University of Maryland, in Baltimore, a position he filled for five years. He then resigned on the ground of ill-health.
During this period he edited the second edition of Burn's "Observations on the Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck," which was published in 1823. Pattison returned to England 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 foinidation of the North London Hospital. This position he was com- pelled to relinquish in 1831 on account of a disagreement 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 University of New York on the re-or- ganization of its medical department in 1840, a position he retained until his death.
He was the author of "Experimental Observations on the Operation of Lith- otomy " (Philadelphia, 1820), and of much controversial matter of ephemeral interest. He edited in 1820 the "Ameri-
