Biography of Claudius Henry Mastin, MD, Mobile, Alabama

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February 2002

CLAUDIUS HENRY MASTIN

     Claudius Henry Mastin, of Mobile, Alabama, was born June 04, 1826, at Huntsville, 
     Alabama.  His academic education was at Green Academy, Huntsville, Alabama; collegiate 
     education at the University of Virginia.  In 1846 he began the study of medicine; 
     Dr. Geo. B. Wood, of Philadelphia, was his private preceptor.  He took the degree of 
     M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1849, and the degree of Doctor of 
     Laws [LL.D] from the same university, in 1875.  He also studied his profession at the 
     University of France, hospitals of Paris, and afterwards at the Royal College of Surgeons, 
     London, then at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and settled in Mobile, Alabama, in 1854... 
     [This is a very long biography, email me if you want more.]  

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, 
      Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 317.