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James McFadden Gaston was born on December 27, 1824, in Chester County, South Carolina. He was the son of Dr. John Brown Gaston, of a colonial Huguenot family, and Polly Buford (McFadden) Gaston, of Scotch descent .
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James McFadden Gaston was born on December 27, 1824, in Chester County, South Carolina. He was the son of Dr. John Brown Gaston, of a colonial Huguenot family, and Polly Buford (McFadden) Gaston, of Scotch descent .
Gaston received his early education in the neighborhood and at Russell Place in Kershaw district.
He obtained his B. A. degree from the College (later University) of South Carolina in 1843, and pursued his medical studies with his father at home, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the Medical College of South Carolina, where he received his M. D. degree in 1846.
After practise with his father in Chester County until 1852, Gaston moved to Columbia, South Carolina. In the first years of the Civil War, he served as chief surgeon to the South Carolina forces under Brig. -Gen. M. L. Bonham.
He accompanied the latter to Richmond, and when the troops were removed to Manassas he was assigned medical director of the department under Brig. -Gen. Beauregard.
After the battle of Manassas, at his own request, he was transferred to the 3rd Brigade, South Carolina Volunteers, under Brig. - Gen. Richard Anderson.
He was later promoted chief surgeon of his division and participated in the Virginia and Pennsylvania campaigns. Returning to Gen. Beauregard’s command, he was sent to establish a general hospital at Fort Gaines, Georgia.
He was subsequently in charge of a hospital at Fort Valley, where he remained on duty until the close of the war. Carpet-bag rule in Carolina proved unbearable to Gaston, and in 1865, he went to Brazil to select a home for his family, and to report on the country as a possible refuge for a colony from his native state.
His report, Hunting a Home in Brazil (1867), led to a migration of many Carolina planter families to that country. Gaston settled first in Sao Paulo.
He attended lectures at the Imperial Academy of Medicine, and receiving an ad eundum degree in 1873, moved to Campinas, Brazil, where he was so successful that the Emperor offered him a surgical command in the army.
This he declined, and in 1883, he returned to the United States and began practise in Atlanta, Ga. Appointed in 1884 professor of the principles and practise of medicine in the Southern Medical College in Atlanta, he served in that capacity and was known as the leading surgeon and teacher of the South for almost twenty years.
His ability as a speaker and as an executive led to his election to the chairmanship of the surgical section of the American Medical Association (1891 - 92), presidency of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (1891), presidency of the American Academy of Medicine (1895), and to prominent positions in other medical organizations.
Gaston died, aged seventy-nine, at his home in Atlanta, and was buried in Westview Cemetery.
Gaston was the first surgeon to demonstrate the feasibility of cholecyst-enterostomy by the use of elastic ligature on dogs, and one of the earliest to appreciate the value of tincture of iodine as a local antiseptic. His professional writings include significant papers on appendicitis, surgery of the gall-bladder and ducts, ovariotomy, and yellow-fever inoculation. He was elected chairman of the surgical section of the American Medical Association, president of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, president of the American Academy of Medicine.
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A bold operator, Gaston always reported his untoward results with absolute fidelity. Gaston’s activities extended beyond his professional interests. In 1885, he patented an airship motor, but was dissuaded from developing the project by friends and colleagues who feared that his ideas might excite doubts concerning his mental balance.
On November 2, 1852, Gaston married Sue G. Brumby, daughter of Prof. Richard T. Brumby of the state university.
He was the father of ten children, most of whom made Brazil their permanent home.
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