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MACLEAN 728 MC CLELLAN made surgeon-in-charge and commandant of the Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond. This hospital he organized from its very beginning, and made it one of the largest the world has ever known, in which, during the four years of the war, 76,000 soldiers were treated with a remarkable number of recoveries, con- sidering the poor facilities and scant supplies. He was successively professor of chemistry (1858-1868) and practice of medicine (after 1868) in the Medical College of Virginia for many years ; served as dean of the faculty for twelve years, and at the time of his death was president of the board of visitors. "He was," says Dr. J. N. Upshur, "a man of most distinguished presence, magnetic and successful." He married, in 1845, Delia Patterson, of Richmond, and had nine children, of whom six survived him ; three sons entered the medical profession. He died in Richmond on August 13, 1906, at the the age of eighty-three. Robert M. Sl.ughter. Transactions of the Med. Soc. of Va., 1906. Medical Reminiscences of Richmond during the past forty years. (J. N. Upshur.) Maclean, Donald (1839-1903) Donald Maclean, surgeon, was born at Sey- mour, Canada, December 4, 1839. His father, of Edinburgh, Scotland, became totally blind at the age of fifteen, but by the aid of tutors prepared himself for the ministry, only to be rejected because of his blindness. He then moved to the wilderness of Canada, where Donald was born. The boy's education was obtained partly at Oliphant's School, Edin- burgh, and partly at Cobourg, Belleville, and Queen's College, Canada. In 1858 he returned to Edinburgh and entered the medical side at the University, in 1862 becoming a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons there. Return- ing to the United States he became assistant surgeon in the army, working in various hos- pitals at St. Louis, Louisville and elsewhere. In 1864 he was professor of surgery in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons at Kingston, Ontario. In 1872, lecturer, and later professor of surgery in the department of medicine and surgery, University of Michigan, resigning this position in 1889 for private practice in Detroit, Michigan. In 1884 he was president of the Michigan State Medical So- ciety ; in 1894 president of the American Med- ical Association. He was honorary member of the Ohio State Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, also fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. During the Spanish War he was surgeon and stationed at Old Point Comfort. When assistant to Syme of Edinburgh, he acquired great dexterity in those operations which made Syme famous. As a teacher he commanded the confidence and enthusiasm of his pupils. Of spare build, about five feet ten inches high, with sandy hair, smooth-shaven face, clear, blue eyes, firm, elastic step, kindly manner, he was a most attractive personality to his friends and a pillar of strength to the cause he charnpioned. Being a ready writer, force- ful speaker, a faithful friend and powerful enemy, he exerted a wide influence. In the con- troversy between the University of Michigan and the Michigan State Medical Society over the introduction of homeopathy into the uni- versity, he led the university party. He was a leader in hastening the evolution of the Michigan State Medical Society from a con- vention with political methods into a society for mutual instruction and fellowship. He married twice. His first wife was a Kingston lady, by whom he had two children ; one, a son. Dr. Donald Maclean, Jr., and a daughter. His second wife was Mrs. Duncan of Detroit. Dr. Maclean died at his home in Detroit, July 24, 1903, from heart failure. Leartus Connor. Biographical Cyclopedia of Mich., Detroit, 1900. Hist. Univ. Mich., Ann Arbor, 1906. McClellan, Ely (1834-1893) Ely McClellan. surgeon in the United States Army and hygienist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1834, He was a stu- dent at the University of Pennsylvania and at Williams, and received his M. D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1856. In 1861 he became surgeon in the United States Army, was pro- moted major in 1876, made deputy-surgeon- general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, in 1891. He wrote "Obstetrical Procedures among the Aborigines of North America" (1873) ; "Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus" (1874) ; "Battey's Operation" (1875) : "Cholera Hy- giene" (1874) ; "Common Carriers, or the Porters of Disease" (1874) ; "A History of the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States" (1875), and other studies in cholera and sanitatiofi. McClellan died in Chicago, Illinois, May ?, 1893. .Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1887. McClellan, George (1796-1847) George McClellan, eminent surgeon and founder of the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, was born at Woodstock, Con-