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JAMA. 1970;211(10):1692-1693.

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George McClellan, brilliant and capricious surgeon of Philadelphia, was born in Woodstock, Conn, of rugged Scottish stock.¹ His father was principal of the Woodstock Academy, where he obtained his early education, with attention to mathematics, Greek, and Latin. McClellan was admitted to Yale College in advanced standing, graduating AB in 1816. There he formed a close friendship with Professor Silliman, who attracted him to the natural sciences. Following graduation he was apprenticed to Thomas Hubbard of Pomfret, later professor of surgery at the medical school in New Haven. McClellan continued his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania as a pupil of John Syng Dorsey, professor of anatomy and materia medica. The MD degree was granted in 1819, upon presentation of a thesis, entitled Surgical Anatomy of Arteries. Meanwhile he had served for one year as undergraduate resident at the Philadelphia Almshouse, which provided him the opportunity to spend . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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