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DEADERICK 299 DEANE 1852, while residing in Vicksbiirg, Miss., hav- ing adopted Baptist views, united with that denomination. Henceforth he was distin- guished for his controversial writings. Be- sides being associate editor of the Tennessee Baptist, he was the author of two religious novels, "Theodosia" and "The Infidel's Daugh- ter," of which the first had a wide circulation. Appleton's Cyclop, of .Smei. Biog., New York, 1887, vol. ii, 113. Deaderick, William Harvey (1773-18.^8). William Harvey Deaderick was born at Win- chester, Virginia, November 10, 1773, and died at Athens, Tennessee, October 29, 1858. He was a graduate in medicine and began practice at Greenville, Tennessee. Shortly afterwards he moved to his farm at Cheeks' Cross Roads, Tennessee, where on February 6, 1810, he re- moved the left inferior maxilla. The patient was a boy (Jesse Lay) fourteen years of age. There was an excresence or enlargement of the bone which nearly closed the buccal cavity and presented a large tumor outside. The bone was sawn through at the chin and near the joint. The growth was said to have been an osteosarcoma, but the fact that there was no return of it makes that diagnosis doubtful. The scar was, in time, completely hidden by a luxuriant growth of whiskers. After a thorough investigation the fact was established that Dr. Deaderick was the first surgeon to remove the lower jawbone. His claim that he was the originator of the opera- tion is justly recognized by Mott in his "Vel- peau," by Smith in his "Operative Surgery," by South in "Chelius' Surgery," and others ; notwithstanding, other claims to priority have arisen, all, however, proven to have been sub- sequent to Deaderick. On May 26, 1807, he married Penelope Smith, a daughter of Col. Joseph Hamilton, and had nine children, five sons and four daughters. Dr. Deaderick's second wife was Mrs. Lois Ashworth, by whom he had a daughter, Mary McKim. After living some years at Cheek's Cross Roads he went to Athens, Tennessee, where he lived many years. His professional contem- poraries and his intimates have said that his character embodied many excellent qualities and he was considered one of the best equipped physicians and surgeons of his day, no less distinguished for his exemplary piety and high moral tone than for his professional accom- plishments. Chalmers Deaderick. Athens Post. 18.S7. Nor. Amer. Med. Chir. Rev., Phila., 1858. vol. ii. Deane, James (1801-1858). James Deane, physician and geologist of Greenfield, Mass., was born in Coleraine, not far from his Juture place of residence, February 24, 1801. He was the eighth child of Christopher and Prudence Deane, who had come from Stonington, Connecticut, to Coler- aine, in their early maried life; Christopher, a farmer, having been a descendent of James Deane, one of the earliest sellers of Stoning- ton. The boy worked on the farm, studied Latin and later French, under a lawyer, and at the age of nineteen went to Boston in search of employment and when twenty-one settled in Greenfield, as clerk to Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court and Register of Probate. Here he lived four years in Mr. Alvord's family and finally became a pupil of Dr. Amariah Brig- ham (q. v.), who at that time was practising in Greenfield. Deane went to New York in 1829 to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia. After he had received the degree of M. D. from that institution in 1831, he returned to Greenfield and engaged in practice. In 1836 he married Mary Clapp Russell, of that town, and they had four children. He began to write for the Boston Medi- cal and Surgical Journal in 1837, contribu- ting a paper on congenital fissure of the palate and this was followed by eighteen other papers, on a variety of subjects in the same journal, between that date and December, 1855. In the last year the Massachusetts Med- ical Society published his most important medical contribution, a paper on "The hygien- ic condition of the survivors of ovariotomy," founded on an extensive correspondence with the leading surgeons of the United States and Europe — in which the performance of the operation was justified to a doubting pro- fession. At this time he was serving as vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1854-1857. In the spring of 1835 slabs of stratified red sandstone were brought from quarries at Turner's Falls, on the Connecticut River near at hand, to be used as sidewalks in Green- field. Although all recognized "Bird Tracks" in these slabs, it was Dr. Deane who con- ceived the plan of studying and trying to classify the fossils. To this end he got into touch with Professor Hitchcock of Amherst and Professor Silliman of Yale and began to make drawings of all the specimens of the fossils he could find, publishing a paper in Sillinian's Journal of Science,