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MC CLINTIC 731 MC CLURG institution, where he taught until 1893. In 1890 he was elected professor of artistic an- atomy in thq Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and taught there for many years with conspicuous success ; and in 1906 he was elected professor of applied anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College. His chief literary work is '"The Regional Anatomy" which was published in 1891, went through four editions in the United States ; was translated into French, two French edi- tions being published. It is a valuable and beautiful book, the numerous illustrations hav- ing been made from photographs of dissec- tions which Dr. McClellan made himself. He also took the photographs and colored the pictures. ' They show real anatomy ; anatomy as it is, not as we might wish it to be. Another book, called "Anatomy in Relation to Art," is a splendid production. An ad- dress which attracted great attention was called "The Cerebral Mechanism of Emotional Expression." McClellan was a charming teacher, and was absolutely saturated with his subject. The beauty of his dissections ; the clearness of his demonstrations ; the accuracy of the white board drawings which he drew with such marvelous speed, and so much artistic beauty, excited the warmest admira- tion of his class. He dissected a body as a great sculptor would carve a statue, for his anatomy was art as well as science. He was one of the ablest and most interesting of American teachers. He died March 29, 1913. J. Chalmers D. Costa. McClintic, Thomas B. (1873-1912) This martyr to scientific medicine succumbed to an attack of Rocky Mountain fever at Washington, D. C, August 13, 1912. The disease had been acquired in Montana where McClintic had been engaged in the study and prevention of the malady since 1911. His work was highly successful and was nearing com- pletion when the derinacentor venustuS tick of an animal on which he was working trans- mitted the disease and he had barely reached his home before the end came. McClintic was born at Warm Springs, Vir- ginia, in 1873; graduated at the Medical De- partment of the University of Virginia in 1896 and three years later entered the Public Health Service as acting assistant surgeon. He was soon commissioned as assistant sur- geon and in 1904 was promoted to be passed assistant surgeon. He had extensive service on army transports and in domestic quaran- tine ; was engaged in yellow fever quarantine work in Tampico, Mexico, in 1904; was on duty at the Marine Hospital, San Francisco, at the time of the earthquake ; was medical officer of the Revenue Cutter McCulloch on service in Alaskan waters ; was later sent to the Philippines where he served as quarantine officer at Manila. At intervals between these various details he was engaged in special in- vestigations at the hygienic laboratory at Washington, devoting much time to problems of practical disinfection. In 1911 he began his studies in Bitter Root Valley, Montana, on the disease that claimed him in its 90 per cent of victims, his investigations being prose- cuted partly in Montana and partly in the hygiene laboratory. He was perfecting meas- ures for the complete eradication of the dis- ease in certain areas when he became infected. He was regarded as an authority on the disease. Dr. McClintic was a man of unassuming manners, and his tact, consideration, and thoughtfulness made him popular even as a quarantine officer. He had been married barely a year. Journ. Amer. Med. Asso., 1912, lix, 665 and 550. New York Med. Jour., 1912, Ixvi, 338. McClurg, James (1746-1823) James McClurg, a Revolutionary surgeon, was the son of Dr. Walter McClurg, a wealthy citizen and physician of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, who also served his country as a surgeon in the Virginia State Navy in the Revolution. The boy James had the best educational advantages of the day and fully availed him- self of them at William and Mary College, from which he graduated in 1762. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he attracted the attention and com- mendation of Cullen, Black and other pro- fessors. Taking his M. D. from this cele- brated institution of medical learning in 1770, his professional studies were then pursued in Paris and London. Returning to Virginia in 1773, he settled at Williamsburg, where he came into competi- tion with such men and practitioners as Arthur Lee, and others of like caliber. In a very short time, however, he made way to the head of his profession in the state, a posi- tion which he held for fifty years. A professorship of anatomy and medicine having been created at William and Mary, he was elected in 1779 to the chair, but it is not known that he ever gave any instruc-