The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.
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- 1878
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![nulhor of Lecture?; on the Physiology and ralhology of the Nervous System, i860; and Paralysis of the Lower Extremities, 1S60. MICHEL, WILLIAM MIDDLETON, Charleston, S. C, was born in that city, Jan. 22d, 1S22. He is of French and Scotch ancestry, his father, Dr. Wm. Michel, being of direct French origin and wholly edu- cated in France, while his mother was a South Carolinian, aMiss Eraser, and a lineal descendant of Simon Eraser, Lord Lovat, of Scotland. Two years of his early life were jiassed at school in Paris, after which he returned to Charleston, again spending five years in Paris, at the Ecole de medecine, from 1842-46. In March, 1847, he gradu- ated from the med. coll. of the State of S. C, and began practice in Charleston. He was a private pupil of, and dissected for, Cruveil- hier, in his laboratoiy, for two years, and afterwards was in the private laboratory at the College de France, as private pupil of Coste. During this term of residence in Paris, in 1844, he delivered a private course of lectures on anatomy, in the French lang- uage, to a class of eighteen Frenchmen at the Ecole Pratique, in conjunction with Prof. Richet, then interne of Prof. Velpeau. He was the founder in 184S, and the conductor until 1S61, of the Summer med. inst. of Charleston, a private school, in which he delivered lectures on anatomy, physiology and widwifery to perhaps the largest classes ever assembled in the South—at one time numbering 150 students; it was not a char- tered school, and was independent of any assistance or i^atronage from the medical col- lege. In his practice the most notable cases have been: Trephining for epilepsy: cure; elephantiasis scroti (immense), operated on : cured; ligature of subclavian, et.-scaleni, for gunshot wound : cured ; removal of jmrotid ; death ; ligature of carotid, twice, on the same side, in the same patient, for secondaiy hem- orrhage : death ; and removal of cystic tumor of thigh of entire region. Among his con- tributions to medical literature may be men- tioned : Organogeny; or, the Science of Organization; Corpus Luteum Coinciding with Menstruation; EarlyHuman Ovum; monograph on Pathology of the Pituitary Pody ; Researches on Black Vomit, Yel- low Fever; Spontaneous Healing of Gun- shot Wounds; Anatomy of Bullet Track ; Epithelioma of Lower Lip; Gunshot Wounds of Face ; Hare-Lip in Negro; and Fibroma Moluscum. Was editor of the Confederate Sla/es Aledical and Stirgical Journal in 1S63 and 1864, and the Charles- ion I\Tcdical journal. During the war he was consulting surgeon to the Confederate hospitals at Richmond, Va., with Drs. Chas. Bell Gibson and J. B. Read, and surgeon to the South Carolina hospitals at Richmond, Va. He is prof, of physiology and histology in the med. coll. of the State of S. C. He is a member of the S. C. med. asso.; of the acad. of science, Philadelphia; of the Am. asso. for the advancement of science; and a corresponding member of the Imperial soc. of nat. hist., Paris. Among his other contri- butions to science should be noted his re- searches on the Development of the Opos- sum, which attracted the attention of Dr. George Morton, who, of his own motion, nominated and elected Dr. Michel a member of the acad, of science, Philadelphia, and which also led to a lilt with Prof. Agassiz, in a debate of an hour, before the Am. asso. for the advancement of science. His diploma as corresponding member of the Imperial soc. of nat. hist., Paris, was brought to him by Prof. Agassiz, when he first visited the United States. He was married, April lith, 1866, to Cecilia S. Inglesby, of Charleston, S. C. TYLER, JOHN E., Boston, Mass., grad- lated A. B. from Dartmouth coll. in 1842, and M. D. from New Hampshire med. coll. in 1846, and from the med. dep't of the univ. of Pa. in the same year. Fle is a mem- ber of the Mass. med. soc, to which he was admitted in 1S60; of the Suffolk district med. soc, of which he is a councillor; of the Bos- ton soc. of nat. hist.; of the Mass. med. be- nevolent asso., of which he is auditor; of the Am. asso. of superintendents of institutions for the insane; of the Am. acad. of arts and sciences; of the New England psychological asso.; of the N. H. med. soc. He is con- sulting physician to the Mass. gen. hosp., and ]:irof. of mental diseases in the med. dep't of Harvard univ. LARENDON, JOSH., Houston, Texas, was born in Charleston, S. C., Aug. 2ist, 1838, his father, G. Larendon, being a native of North Carolina, and his mother of South Carolina. He was educated in Char- leston, at the high school; studied medicine under R. F. and Middleton Michel; attended lectures in 1859 at the coll. of phys. and surg.. New York,and graduated from the med. coll. of the State of S. C. in 1861. Began prac- tice in Houston, Texas, but soon joined the Confederate States army as post surgeon at Galveston; six months later was placed in charge of the post at Pelican .Spit; in 1S62 in charge of hospital at Virginia Point, and in 1863 ordered to Tyler, Texas, in charge of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0805.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
