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(Firolyptol with Creosote same as the above with the addition of 10 minims Beechwood Creosote to the ounce.)

As a primal factor and auxilliary agent in uprooting and aborting. strumous and tubercular eonditions and restoring to health the victims of these distressing ailments, "Firolyptol" and "Firolyptol with Creosote" present to the physician all that seems possible in the light of present day therapy.

Samples and literature on application.

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THE TILDEN COMPANY

Pharmaceutical Chemists.

New Lebanon, N. Y.

St. Louis, Mo.

An Unparalleled Record!

For FORTY years the standard Iron Tonic and Reconstructive
WHEELER'S TISSUE PHOSPHATES

has maintained its remarkable prestige in Tuberculosis and all wasting diseases, Convalescence, Gestation, Lactation, etc., by securing the perfect digestion and assimilation of food as well as of the Iron and other Phosphates it contains. DELICIOUS AS A CORDIAL.

“AS RELIABLE IN DYSPEPSIA AS QUININE IN AGUE!”

T. B. WHEELER, Montreal, Canada.

To prevent substitution, in pound bottles only one dollar. Send for interesting book on the Phosphates in Therapy. Samples no longer furnished.

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at the outside of the Mailing Wrapper of your Journal, and if your time of subscription has ex

pired please forward renewal; or if you do not want the journal to continue its visits a Postal Card or other notification will be sincerely appreciated by

Nashville, Tenn.

Yours very truly,

DEERING J. ROBERTS, M.D.,
Editor and Proprie r.

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Dr. M. Mackenzie.

50% Choicest Norway Cod Liver Oil with the Soluble Phosphates.

PHILLIP'S EMULSION.

Pancreatized.

THE CHAS. H. PHILLIPS CHEMICAL CO., 128 PEARL ST., NEW YORK.

THE SOUTHERN PRACTITIONER

AN INDEPENDENT MONTHLY JOURNAL,

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A Special Address delivered at the Banquet given by The Nashville
Academy of Medicine and Davidson County Medical
Society, Tuesday, April 7, 1903.

IN HONOR OF

THOS. L. MADDIN, M.D.,

Of Nashville, Tenn.

He having completed Fifty Years of Continuous Membership in the Tennessee State Medical Society.

BY DEERING J. ROBERTS,

Mr. President and Gentlemen:

M.D.

Having known Dr. Thos. L. Maddin from early boyhood, the duty imposed on me is a pleasing one; yet, I cannot but feel that it should have been entrusted to one more gifted with glittering metaphor, far better equipped with the pleasing arts of

the orator, or endowed with greater gift of eloquence. It is as if a pigmy were looking up with awe at a giant or Colossus, or one who whitewashes your fences or outbuildings making an effort to tell of the wonders that sprang from the brush of a Michael Angelo, a Rubens or a Titian; or yet a favored employe of this municipality descending from his rock-pile essaying to eulogize the marvellous handicraft of a Praxiteles or a Milo. However, the subject is one well calculated to bring inspiration, and while asking you to bear kindly with my imperfections and my crude thought, should I interest you for the while, you can give credit to the source of inspiration.

Acknowledging my obligations to Dr. J. L. Watkins, of this city, and to a sketch prepared by the late Dr. John H. Callender, in a publication issued from the press of this city, entitled "Sketches of Notable Tennesseans," and to the Transactions of the State Medical Society for biographical and other data, I am confident and assured that any words of eulogium or commendation I may utter, will be fully substantiated by numbers of professional or non-professional men and women in this city, in this State, and throughout the land.

Columbia, one of the most beautiful county seats in the State, the capital of Maury county, magnificently endowed with fertile, picturesque and delightful surroundings; noted since its earliest settlement for the culture, refinement, courtesy, intelligence, and every thing that tends to elevate and ennoble man, is the "native heath" of Dr. Thos. L. Maddin, and he was there "to the manner born" September 14th, 1826.

His father, Rev. Thos. Maddin, of Irish descent, was for 60 years an itinerant preacher of the Methodist Church, and while stationed in this city in 1817, organized the first Church Sunday School in Nashville. He was a most important member of the Church Conference, of high rank and authority in its councils, and renown in its pulpit, who after long years of faithful and earnest work in its service, laid down life's burden in this city and entered into his grand inheritance in 1874, at the age of 76. Ever firm and uncompromising when right and duty was concerned, yet always mild, kindly, gentle and most lovable. He held high rank in the Masonic Fraternity in this State and in Alabama, and was at one time Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee.

His wife was a Miss Sarah Moore, a native of Kentucky, and descended from an old Maryland family, her father being a farmer, residing in the vicinity of Louisville. Of marked gentleness and purity of character, never speaking a harsh or unkind word, she ruled and presided over her household and family as a true Southern matron, ruling and directing with the Divine authority of love and affection. She preceded her husband into te realms of the beautiful beyond, by ten years, dying at Huntsville, Ala., in 1865, at the age of 64.

Dr. Maddin completed his literary education at LaGrange College, Ala., in his senior year, having been appointed assistant instructor, acquitting himself most creditably, as well as complying satisfactorily with the requirements so as to obtain his degree of A.B. in 1854.

His father desired him to enter the ministry, but not feeling. worthy of undertaking so responsible a life, preferring the law, compromising, however, he decided to enter a profession, which, with unwearied energy, has pursued from ago to age, its earnest endeavor to lessen human woe. According to the custom of that day, now, alas! more noted by far, "in the breach than in the observance," he became the office pupil of Dr. Jonathan McDonald, of Limestone county, Ala. In the second year of his office pupilage, there being then a very violent and widespread epidemic of what was termed the "new disease," his preceptor being heavily taxed, he was given almost sole charge of twenty cases of typhoid fever, all negroes on the plantation of Hon. Luke Pryor, all of them recovering, the mortality in this epidemic, in the hands of other practitioners, being between 30 and 35 per cent. At a conference held by a number of physicians called by his preceptor, toward the close of the epidemic, he attributed

his

good

success to the fact that the lancet with which he had

been armed to battle with the disease, the Sangrado method not yet having waned, was too dull to puncture a negro's skin; his original observation attracting the attention of all, that the proper treatment to him seemed to be, not to deplete by bleeding,

but

to economize the vital forces, sustaining the patient with

stimulants and good feeding."

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He matriculated at the University of Louisville in the fall 1847, receiving his degree of M.D., in the spring of 1849,

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