Birth: 1791
Death: 1851, Nov. 12
Occupation: doctor
Associated Counties
- Baltimore City
Directories
| Date | Name | Occupation | Address | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1822-1823 | Granville Pattison | professor of surgery at the University of Maryland | SE corner of Lombard and Green; dwelling: St. Paul’s Lane, east side south of Pleasant St. | Baltimore City |
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Notes:MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY --------------------------- RECORD --------------------------- Author Figge, Frank H. Title Statement Granville Sharp Pattison, the dueling anatomist. / Frank H.J. Figge...[Extr. from the Bulletin of the School of medicine, Univ. of Md. v.23, no.2, Oct. 1938]. Published [S.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. Description 81-91 p. : ; 25 cm. Title Statement Granville Sharp Pattison, the dueling anatomist. / Frank H.J. Figge...[Extr. from the Bulletin of the School of medicine, Univ. of Md. v.23, no.2, Oct. 1938]. General Note The address was delivered before the Cordell hist. soc'y of the U. of Maryland., Apr 20, 1938. Subject Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851. Call Number PAM 11531 Location Main Reading Room
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- Dates: 1791-1851
Notes: Born near Glasgow, Scotland, 1791. Educated at the private school of Dr. Allan Burns; Demonstrator of Anatomy, Andersonian Institution, Glasgow, 1810; Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Surgery, Andersonian Institution, 1812; emigrated to Philadelphia, 1818, and opened an anatomical school there; Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland, 1820-26; Dean, University of Maryland, 1821-22; fought a duel in 1823 with General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia, Pattison escaping injury, whilst Cadwallader received a wound permanently disabling his right arm; went to Lendon, 1826; Professor of Anatomy, University of London, 1827-31; dismissed from the University of London, 1831; returned to Philadelphia, 1832; Professor of Anatomy, Jefferson Medical College, 1832-41; Founder of the Medical Department of the University of New York, 1841, and Professor of Anatomy there, 1841-51; author of “The Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science;” “Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries of the Head and Neck” (Burns), two editions; “Anatomical Atlas” (Masse); “Anatomy” (Cruveilhier); an Editor of the American Medical Recorder; received Honorary M.D. late in life. “A small, elderly gentleman, of medium stature, with black eyes and white hair” (Gross). Died at New York, November 12, 1851.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 529 - Dates: 1820
Notes: “Dr. Granville Sharpe Pattison elected to chair of surgery in Medical University.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 30 - Dates: 1820
Notes: Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison, of Glasgow, elected Professor of Surgery in the University of Maryland.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 686 - Dates: 1820-27
Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 210 - Dates: 1821
Notes: “Dr. Pattison partially excises the superior maxillae”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 30 - Dates: 1821-22
Notes: Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 209 - Dates: 1827/03/13
Notes: Dr. Nathan R. Smith, of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, elected to the Chair of Surgery in the University of Maryland, vice Prof Granville S. Pattison, who had gone to London the year before (March 13).
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 689 - Dates: 1851
Notes: Dr. Granville Shape Pattison ob aet 66
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 39 - Dates: 1999
Notes: “Dr. Frank H.J. Figge joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine as assistant in anatomy in 1929, became professor of anatomy in 1950 and was named chairman of the department in 1955. He passed away in 1973 at the age of 69. Dr. Figge presented the following paper before the Cordell Historical Society of the University of Maryland on April 20, 1938. The paper was published in the Bulletin magazine, Volume 23, No. 2 (October 1938).”
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Bibliography
- Pattison, Granville Sharp, Syllabus of a popular course of lectures on general anatomy and physiology, as illustrative of the natural history of man Philadelphia: n.pl.. 13 p. 14 cm.
- Pattison, Granville Sharp, A reply to certain oral and written criticisms, delivered against an essay on lithotomy, published in the January number of the American medical recorder… Inserted in the American medical recorder for July, 1820. Philadelphia: [James Webster]. 23 p. 21 cm.
Separate, from v. 3, p. 351-371 of the journal - Pattison, Granville Sharp, A refutation of certain calumnies published in a pamphlet, entitled, “Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. Nathaniel Chapman” … Baltimore: J. Robinson. 64 p. 24 cm.
The previous pamphlet was written by Nathaniel Chapman and published in Philadelphia in the same year. - Pattison, Granville Sharp, Experimental observations on the operation of lithotomy; with the description of a fascia of the prostate gland, which appears to explain anatomically the cause of urinal infiltrations, and consequent death … [Philadelphia]: [James Webster]. [2], 24 p. illus., 2 plates. 21 cm.
Separate issue, with special title page, of an article “written for the American medical recorder [v. 3]… Jan. 1820.” - Pattison, Granville Sharp, Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. N. Chapman. [Philadelphia?]: n.p.. 16 p. 23 cm.
Contains Chapman’s explanation (p. 5-16) of his stand in a mainly personal controversy with Pattison. The correspondence dates from Oct. 12 to Oct. 20, 1820. - Pattison, Granville Sharp, An answer to a pamphlet entitled “Structures on Mr. Pattison’s reply to certain oral and written criticisms, by W. Gibson”… 2d edition Baltimore: Richard J. Matchett. 32 p. 21 cm
- Pattison, Granville Sharp, An answer to a pamphlet entitled “Strictures on Mr. Pattison’s reply to certain oral and written criticisms, by W. Gibson” … Baltimore: Printed by Richard J. matchett. 52 p. 22 cm.
Gibson’s “Strictures on Mr. Pattison’s reply” was published in Phildelphia in the same year. - University of Maryland. Medical Department, [Address to the students of the university on the subject of private classes by professors]/University of Maryland, Medical Faculty Baltimore: [The University?].
Medicine in Maryland, 1752-1920 