American Medical Biographies/Blackie, George Stodart
Blackie, George Stodart (1834–1881)
This professor of botany and chemistry came, like many another of his kind, from Scotland, a land which sent over many of America's earliest botanists.
Alexander Blackie, banker, of Aberdeen was the father, and the eccentric, erudite John Stuart Blackie the brother of John Stodart, who was born in Aberdeen on the tenth of April, 1834. After a capital general education at Aberdeen University and a course in medicine at Edinburgh he went to Germany and France, taking his A. M. and M. D. in Edinburgh.
He seems to have moved about a great deal at first; to the Mowcroft Private Asylum, London, as physician, then north again to Kelso, as a local practitioner, finally coming over to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1857 and remaining there for the rest of his life.
Besides being co-editor for twelve years of the Nashville Medical Journal, he contributed largely to the London Botanical Gazette and the North American Surgical Review. Three of his publications were "Cretins and Cretinism," 1885; "The Medical Flora of Tennessee," 1857, and "History of the Military Monkish Orders of the Middle Ages."
He held many appointments: professor of botany in the University of Nashville; professor of botany, Tennessee College of Pharmacy; professor of chemistry, Nashville Medical College; member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, Edinburgh, and fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.