Thomas L. Maddin
| Thomas L. Maddin | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
September 4, 1826 Columbia, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died |
April 27, 1908 (aged 81) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
LaGrange College University of Louisville |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Religion | Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
| Parent(s) |
Thomas Maddin Sarah Moore |
Thomas L. Maddin (1826-1908) was an American physician. He treated black slaves in Alabama in the antebellum era. He served as the director of a hospital for the Confederate States Army in Nashville, Tennessee during the American Civil War. He was a professor of medicine at the University of Nashville and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Early life
Thomas L. Maddin was born on September 4, 1826 in Columbia, Tennessee.[1] His father, Reverend Thomas Maddin, was a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.[1] His mother was Sarah Moore.[1] He was of Scotch-Irish descent on his paternal side.[1]
Maddin graduated from LaGrange College (now known as the University of North Alabama) in 1845.[1] He attended the medical school at the University of Louisville from 1847 to 1849, when he received an M. D..[1]
Career
Maddin practiced medicine under Dr. Jonathan McDonald in Limestone County, Alabama.[1] He treated 20 black slaves on Luke Pryor's plantation who were ill with typhoid.[1] He subsequently fell ill with malaria.[1]
Maddin joined the Tennessee Medical State Society in Nashville, Tennessee in 1853.[1] The following year, in 1854, he taught a class of 100 at the University of Nashville.[1] He was a professor of anatomy at Shelby Medical College from 1857 to 1861, and a professor of surgery from 1858 to 1861.[1]
During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he was the director of a hospital for personnel of the Confederate States Army.[2]
Maddin was a professor in the medical school at the University of Nashville from 1867 to 1873.[1] When it merged with Vanderbilt University in 1873, he served professor of practice of medicine and clinical medicine as well as president of the faculty until 1895.[1][2] As the medical school re-joined the University of Nashville in 1895, Maddin served as its chair of nervous diseases and general pathology until 1905.[1]
Maddin served as the editor of the Monthly Record of Medicine and Surgery.[1] He was a member of the Democratic Party.[1]
Death
Maddin died on April 27, 1908 in Nashville, Tennessee.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Allison, John (1905). Notable Men of Tennessee: Personal and Genealogical, with portraits. Atlanta, Georgia: Southern historical Association. pp. 104–106. OCLC 2561350 – via Internet Archive.
- 1 2 3 "Thomas la Fayette Maddin (1826-1908)". The Annette & Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved September 27, 2016.