Granville Sharp Pattison

He acted in 1818 as assistant to Allan Burns, the lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Andersonian Institute; but he only held the post for a year, and was succeeded by William Mackenzie.

[2] In 1820 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy, physiology, and surgery in the University of Maryland in Baltimore, a post he filled for five years and resigned, on grounds of ill-health.

[1] But he had been involved in another dispute, over the Fascia of Colles and his own research; and had fought a duel with General Thomas McCall Cadwalader, brother-in-law to Chapman, whom he wounded with a pistol shot.

[1] These posts he was compelled to relinquish in 1831, under pressure from a combination of student activists excited by the July Revolution of 1830, and colleagues who questioned the standard of his teaching.

He was appointed professor of anatomy at New York University on the reorganisation of its medical department in 1840, a post he retained till his death on 12 November 1851.