Civil War and Other 1800's Medical College Lecture
Tickets & Cards
Medical Ephemera
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During the 1800's medical doctors who
taught in medical schools or colleges supported their efforts by selling
lecture tickets or cards to their lectures for the semester or whatever
period the lecture series would take. This was how they were paid and
students would buy tickets for the lectures they needed for their course of
study. Both the student and the lecturer would normally have signed
the lecture ticket for admission to the course. During the 1800's it was common for doctors and 'surgeons' to
attend only two years of lectures. Medical school was not four years
plus internship and a multi-year residency after four years of college as it
is today.
For example,
Jefferson Medical College, and the medical profession, placed its emphasis on graduation,
not entrance, requirements. To receive the MD degree, applicants were
required to be: 21 years of age,
have
attended two courses of lectures,
studied
three years with a preceptor, have
written a thesis, and
passed an oral or
written examination given by the faculty. Only
then would students receive the coveted Pass Notice.
The more desirable lecture cards for this
collection are
pre-1865, from American medical colleges for medical courses of interest,
signed by notable doctors, and in excellent condition. All medical lecture
tickets from the 1700' and 1800's are wanted to buy by this collector,
Michael Echols.
It's all inter-related on
this site: medical schools sold lecture cards, lecturers who were
authors of books wrote books used at the medical schools, the
surgeons who attended the medical colleges fought in the Civil War,
surgeons joined the Army, the Army bought surgical sets for the
surgeon's use, and round and round it goes.
Various Pre- Civil War Medical Colleges in
the 1800's
Click on any image to enlarge
Examples of lecture tickets
on heavy paper (@ 2 x 3, 3 x 4 in.) with
topics imprinted with the lecturer and signed with the students' name.
| Wanted: Pre-1865
medical college lecture cards like those on
these pages. Paying top dollar! |
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, City of New
York, 1864 - 65
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, established 1861 and later merged with
N.Y.U. Medical College
Bellevue Hospital Medical College lecture
schedule and staff list
Alexander Mott, M.D, 1864 - 65 James Wood, M.D.
1864 - 65
Medical College of Ohio, 1861 - 62
George Blackman, M.D.
Albany Medical College, 1840 - 41
J. H. Armsby, M.D.
Amos Dean, prof.
Transylvania University, Kentucky,
1841 - 42
Robert Peter, M.D.
James Crop, M. D.
William Richardson, M.D.
Thomas Mitchell, M.D.
For student D. H. Henderson of Indiana
Medical Department of the
Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio
Cleveland Medical College - Western Reserve College, 1849 - 50
Jared P.Kirtland, M.D.
Horace A. Ackley, M.D.
J. Lang Cassels, M. D.
Jacob J. Delamater, M.D.
Medical College of the State of South Carolina,
1853 - 54
J. Edwards Holbrook, M.D.
Henry Frost, M.D.
University of New York, Department of Medicine,
1858
Alfred Post, M.D.
Gunning Bedford, M.D
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Medical College
lecture cards are wanted-to-buy for this collection. Please
contact Dr. Michael Echols
Please
go here for a list of
early medical
colleges and when they were in existence during or prior to the Civil War.
Since medical colleges merged or went in and out of existence, all
colleges or departments of medicine may not be listed.
"Medical Education Before the Civil War", by Wm. F. Norwood.
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