Pre-1864 Civil War Medical Colleges

Medical School of Maine, Bowdin College, established 1820-1834

 

Lecturers:   Henry Halsey Childs, Daniel Oliver, John Delamataer, William Sweetser, William Perry, James McKeen, Israel Thorndike Dana, Reuben D. Mussey, Jedediah Cobb, Joseph Roby, Edmond R. Peaslee, David Conant, Ebenezer Wells, Fordyce Barker, Amos Nourse, William Chafee Robinson

 

Wanted: Medical college lecture tickets photo examples, pre-1864 from American medical colleges or schools

 

TOPICS TYPICALLY LISTED ON LECTURE CARDS

Anatomy Physic Lectures and theory Surgery Medica materia or Materia medica Anatomy and   physiology Chemistry Surgical anatomy Surgical pathology

Clinical surgery Military surgery Pathology and practical medicine Medicine and surgery Principals practice and operations of surgery Department of medicine Ophthalmology Dermatology Nervous diseases

Gynaecology Venereal diseases Laryngology Obstetrics Children Midwifery Orthopedic surgery Comparative anatomy Operative surgery Physiology

 

ALL of the nine medical tickets are from the “Medical School of Maine” – BOWDOIN COLLEGE / Brunswick and are described separately as follows:

Surgery and Clinical Surgical, by Professor Stephen H. Weeks, M. D.

 Materia Medica and Therapeutics, by Professor Charles O. Hunt

 Anatomy, by Professor F. H. Gerrish

 Chemistry, by Professor Franklin C. Robinson

Franklin C. Robinson (1852 – 1910) graduated from Bowdoin College in 1873. The following year he was appointed an instructor of analytic chemistry and mineralogy at Bowdoin. He was appointed a full professor in 1881.

Pathology and Practice, by Israel T. Dana, M.D.

Physiology, by Henry H. Hunt, M.D.

Henry H. Hunt was a graduate of Bowdoin College, Class of 1862. After graduation, Hunt enlisted in the 5th Maine Battery and served during the Civil War, where he was appointed a Hospital Steward and took part in the Battle of Gettysburg. Following the war, he returned to Bowdoin and enrolled in the medical school, graduating in 1867.

Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, by Alfred Mitchell, M.D.

 

Alfred Mitchell was born in Yarmouth, Maine in 1838 and was a member of the Bowdoin Class of 1859. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1865 and served as an assistant surgeon during the Civil War. Mitchell was a Professor at the Medical school of Maine from 1872 to 1897 and was Dean of the Medical Faculty from 1898 to 1911.

Medical Jurisprudence, by C. W. Goddard

Card reads, “This is to Certify Mr. F. H. Sargent Has faithfully dissected and satisfactorily demonstrated the part of the subject assigned him in the Term Ending June 26, 1888 - by Demonstrator Irving E. Kimball.

 

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