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Excerpt from Elements of Human Anatomy: General, Descriptive, and Practical IN adding another to the numerous list of books on anatomy already before the profession, the author claims no credit beyond that of a common observer, whose experience, in the dissecting room and amphitheatre, has suggested what he believes to be a slight improvement on the plan pursued by the majority of writers on this branch of physico-medical science. This improvement con sists, in the first place, in the union of general, descriptive, and practical anatomy in the same volume; the intention being to render it unnecessary, on the part of the student just entering upon the study, to provide himself with separate books on these different branches; secondly, in the arrangement of the section devoted to practical anatomy so as to secure the greatest possible economy of material; and lastly, in the substitution of English for Latin terms, wherever this appeared to be practicable and judicious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Tobias Gibson Richardson was the son of William A. and Synia (Higgins) Richardson. Although he was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and died in New Orleans, he was of New England ancestry, being descended from Samuel Richardson who was in Charlestown, Massachussets, as early as 1636.
Most fortunate in his home life, he received a good English education in Lexington, although he completed no classical or collegiate studies. In 1837 he removed to Louisville, and in 1845 enrolled as a medical student in the University of Louisville, becoming the private pupil of Dr. S. D. Gross, professor of surgery, whose friendship inspired him throughout his whole professional life. He graduated (M. D. ) in 1848, having spent the previous year as a resident student of the Louisville Marine Hospital.
He served as demonstrator of anatomy in the University, publishing in 1854 his Elements of Human Anatomy, a textbook which long remained standard in Southern medical schools, and from May to October 1856 acting as coeditor of the Louisville Medical Review.
In 1856 he was offered the chair of surgery at the Kentucky School of Medicine and the chairs of anatomy at the New York Medical College and the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, Philadelphia. The third of these he accepted, but two years later left Philadelphia to become professor of anatomy at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane) in New Orleans. When war closed the doors of this institution in 1862, he entered the Confederate army, serving first as assistant medical director of the Army of Tennessee; then, after July 24, 1863, as medical inspector; and finally, in 1865, as General Bragg's medical director until his staff was disbanded. Returning to New Orleans, he resumed his teaching and private practice, continuing in the chair of anatomy until 1872, when he was elected to succeed Dr. Warren Stone in the chair of surgery.
For twenty years, 1865-85, he was also dean of the College, piloting it through the critical period of Reconstruction. He continued in the chair of surgery until May 18, 1889, when broken health compelled him to resign. As a part of his professional duties, he gave twenty-eight years of free service as a visiting surgeon to the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, in addition to his early years of service as an associate in Dr. Stone's infirmary.
Among the many honors conferred by his professional brethren, perhaps the one he most prized was his election to the presidency of the American Medical Association (1877), the first physician from Louisiana to hold that office. In his presidential address at Buffalo, New York, in 1878, besides making a strong plea for a better preliminary education of medical students, he urged the appointment of a national secretary of health, pleaded for appropriations from the federal government to promote research for the investigation and prevention of disease, and insisted that questions of quarantine involving national or interstate relations should be under the supervision of the federal government (Transactions, 1878).
This was a bold position for a Southerner and Confederate veteran to take at a time when state rights were jealously guarded by the health authorities of the South Atlantic and Gulf states. He was one of the founders of the Orleans Parish Medical Society in 1877, of the Louisiana State Medical Association in 1878, and of the American Surgical Association in 1880.
As an administrator of the fund established by Paul Tulane in 1884 for the benefit of the University of Louisiana, he was zealous in promoting the educational interests of the medical department and secured for it important benefits. His personal benefactions to the medical college were continued by his wife, who, inspired by him, donated the sum of $50, 000 for the erection of a much needed laboratory building. This sum was later increased by an additional $100, 000 (May 9, 1891), with which the Richardson Memorial was built on a site provided by the administrators. It housed the whole medical school for fifteen years, until May 19, 1908, when the New Richardson Memorial for preclinical studies was erected on the campus out of the funds provided by the sale of the old property. Richardson's consummate knowledge of anatomy made him an exceptionally able operator -skillful, quick, and bold "in all those things that are safe; deliberate and cautious in those that are dangerous. "
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From December 23, 1860, to his death he served as a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans.
One of the original members of the New Orleans Auxiliary Sanitary Association, organized in 1878 to aid the city health authorities, he was also a member of the American Public Health Association and a fellow of the College of Pharmacy and of the Academy of Physical Sciences of Philadelphia.
He was a man of tall, commanding presence, but while seemingly distant and self contained, was in fact simple, unostentatious, direct, and deeply affectionate.
The loss of his first wife, Sarah Short Richardson, and their three children, in the boiler explosion of the Mississippi packet W. R. Carter, saddened his life.
On November 12, 1868, he married Ida Ann Slocum of New Orleans, who survived him eight years; the union was childless, but very congenial and happy.
