The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.
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- 1878
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Credit: The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MCNEIL, DANIEL CLARENCE, Osceola, Mo., born near Springfield, Sangamon co.. 111., Jan. l6th, 1S25, of Scotch- Irish ancestry on his father's side; was edu- cated at Mofimouth, III.; re^id medicine with Dr. Samuel Webster of that place, and grad- uated from a college in Philadelphia, Pa., and commenced practice with Dr. Webster in 1S45. I'* 1S46 he went to Mexico and returned in 1847. He has practised medi- cine at Cambridge and Henry, III.; at Win- terset, Camanche, and DeWitt, Iowa, and is now settled at Osceola, in this State. He has been a member of the Clinton co. nied. asso., Iowa; of the St. Clair co. med. asso., Mo.; and of the Iowa and 111. States med. assos. He entered the Mexican war in 1846 in the 1st reg. 111. vols., was subsequently appointed acting ass't surg., in charge of a hospital at San Antonio, Texas, and afterwards took part in the battle of Buena Vista in Feb., 1847, and was subsequently appointed ass't surg. 2d Ind. vols.—wounded men. In 1861 he was commissioned captain of, and recruiting officer for, co. A, ist reg. U. S. lancers; and in 1862 ass't surg. i6th Iowa vol. inf. He was afterwards in charge of negro brigade; with the 15th Iowa at the battle of Corinth; i.i charge of hosp. at La Grange, Tenn., and hosp. No. I ; was Ist ass't surg. 2d U. S. vols., district of Iowa; in charge of hosps. at Fort Ellsworth, Texas, and Fort Earned, Kansas; was next attached to the 2d Colo- rado cavalry; then of post hosp. at Fort Earned; and then medical director 3d sub- district, upper Arkansas. In Sept., 1865, he was appointed chief surgeon of Indiana com- mission to hold council with the Cheyennes and other Indian tribes; and was mustered out of service in Nov., 1865. In 1866 he was appointed examining surg. for pensions at DeWitt, Iowa; holds the same office for Osceola now; and was elected surg.-gen. of the G. A. R. at its organization in Indian- apolis. He is examining surg. for the fol- iDwing insurance companies: Accident of Columbus, Ohio; Missouri mutual life, St. Louis; mutual life. New York; life associa- tion of America; St. Louis mutual life; yEtna life, Hartford, Conn.; Atlas mutual life, St. Louis; and National life, Philadel- phia. He has been lecturer on Joint Dis- eases; has read essays on Dislocations, Fractures, '■ Quinine, surgical opera- lions and cases treated by himself, etc., etc.; has been connected with a large number of beneficial and charitable societies, fraternities, etc., and has held offices in all; has been connected with political organizations, rail- road corporations, etc., etc.; has edited two newspapers, and contributed, variously, over 3,000 articles; has been postmaster and cor- oner in Iowa, and has been three times in the drug business. In March, 1861, he was ]ire- sented with a diploma Pro causa Honoris'''' from the Pennsylvania medical college. In Dec, 1849, he married Elizabeth Ann Gra- ham, a descendant of Sir John Graham, Duke of Montrose. STERLING, JOHN WILLIAMS, Port Richmond, N. Y., of American and Irish parentage, was born in the city of New York, June 12th, 1795. ^^^ studied medi- cine under Drs. Valentme Seamen and Thos. Cook, and attended the medical institution, and New York hospital for three years, end- ing July, 1816; also the lectures of Drs. Coles, Dease, Todd, etc., on anatomy, physi- ology, surgery, etc.; and was licensed to jirac- tise medicine by the county medical society of New York in 1S16. In 1S16 and 1S17 he attended the lectures at .the Royal coll. of surg., and Richmond and Swift hosps., Dub- lin; of Sir Astley Cooper and Penjamin Travers, at Guy's hosp., and St. Thomas hosp., London, in 1S17 and 1818; and of Drs. John Abernethy and William Lawrence at St. Bartholomew's hosp., London. Dur- ing the year 1818 he visited Paris and at- tended the lectures of Dr. Brousseau at his hospital in that city. On his return he set- tled as a general practitioner in New York and Staten island. In 1818 he was elected a member of the Royal coll. of surg. in Lon- don ; in 1829 fellow of the coll. of phys. and surg. of the univ. of the State of N. Y. lie has been prosector and demonstrator of surg- ical anat. in the coll. of phys. and surg.. New York; translated Velpeaii's Surgical Anat- omy from the French and published it in 1830; was appointed phys. of Ward's island hosp. in Dec, 1847 ; ass't phys. of the Ma- rine quarantine hosp.. New York, 1S48, a position he held till 1853; and was phys. of the commissioners of emigration of New York and of Castle Garden, from 1853 to 1873; since the last date he has been con- sulting phys. at Castle Garden. In May, 1819, he married Margaret Kelso, of New York, who died in Nov., 1872. MEANS, THOMAS ALEXANDER, Montgomery, Ala., was born at Ox- ford, Newton co., Ga., Oct. inh, 1828, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was educated at Emory coll., Oxford, Ga., and graduated in 1851; received the degree of A. M. in 1866. His first course of medical lectures was taken at med. coll. of Ga., Augusta, and he grad- uated at med. coll., Atlanta, Ga., in 1856. Thereafter he spent two years abroad in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21039161_0810.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
