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 |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Maddin Sarah Moore |
Thomas L. Maddin (1826–1908) was an American physician. He treated African-American 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.
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This is something that most people don’t get to see. We’re behind the scenes. We’re in the treasure box of the museum which if you’re looking at the museum from the parking lot you see this big tall copper dome that stands up and that is where all the collections are housed. We’re in the vertebrate paleontology collection. We actually have 12 different collections here at the museum and more than half of the footprint of the museum is taken up, actually, in collections and laboratories. These are the fossils we’ve got they’re from a place called Hotel Mesa in Eastern most Utah, right near the Colorado River and the Colorado border. And they’re bones that we all think all go to two individuals of this Brontomerus. One is about the size of a pony the other would have been about the size of an elephant with a long tail and a long neck added on, of course. And the dinosaurs named Brontomerus, it means thunder thigh because it had particularly well developed thigh muscles. I think the most exciting fun thing about this job, to me, is imagining what these animals were like when they were living. Our museum was actually founded in 1899, so we’re more than 100 years old, we have more than 10 million objects in our collection and yet our beautiful facility is just 10 years old. A lot of museums that have old collections also have old buildings and we are fortunate that we do not. We are one of the finest University based museums in the world. The collections here are very active. We’ve got curators working in locations all over the world doing active research, working with Graduate students, working with undergraduate students, teaching in their respective department at The University of Oklahoma, keeps our program very vivid. Very vibrant and alive and its part of what makes our museum so dynamic.
Early life
Thomas L. Maddin was born on September 4, 1826, in Columbia, Tennessee. His father, Reverend Thomas Maddin, was a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His mother was Sarah Moore. 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. 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. He treated 20 black slaves on Luke Pryor's plantation who were ill with typhoid. He subsequently fell ill with malaria.[1]
Maddin joined the Tennessee Medical State Society in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1853. The following year, in 1854, he taught a class of 100 at the University of Nashville. 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. 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. He was a member of the Democratic Party.[1]
Death
Maddin died on April 27, 1908, in Nashville, Tennessee.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.
- ^ a b c "Thomas la Fayette Maddin (1826-1908)". The Annette & Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
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