American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

(A Private Collection - Research and Identification Project)

Civil War Era Surgical Sets, Surgeon's Swords & Images

Civil War Surgeon Education & Civil War Medicine Text-books

Established 1995      .   .   .     Dr. Michael Echols

As seen in: Military Images Magazine, American's Civil War Magazine, Warman's Civil War Collectibles, Antique Week, Northeast Antiques, Civil War Army Swords, Civil War Times Illustrated, various TV programs, Antiques & Collecting publications

 

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 Frederic Henry Gerrish, M.D.

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Name: Frederic Henry Gerrish
Death date: Sep 9, 1920
Place of death: Portland, ME
Birth date: 1845
Place of birth: Portland, ME
Type of practice: Allopath
Practice specialities:GS General Surgery, PH Public Health
States and years of licenses:ME
Places and dates of practices:Portland, ME, 1869
Hospital affiliations: Maine Gen. Hosp
Medical school(s): Bowdoin Medical School, Brunswick-Portland: Medical School of Maine, 1869, (G)
Other education: Grammar, high sch., Portland, Bowdoin Coll., 1860
Professorship: University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Department of Medicine and Surgery, therapeutics, materia medica, physiology, ME-01 Bowdoin Medical School, Brunswick-Portland: Medical School of Maine, 1911, materia medica.  Journal of the American Medical Association Citation: 75:889

Frederic H. Gerrish, Portland, 1874GERRISH, FREDERIC HENRY, M.D., Portland, Me., was born in Portland, ME, March 21st, 1845. "He graduated at Bowdnin college in 1866, and at the med. school of Maine in 1869, establishing himself in his native city. Since 1873 he has been prof, of materia medica and theraputics,and since 1876 also lecturer on public health, in the med. school of Me. ; was prof, of thcrap.. mat. med. and physiol. in the univ. of Mich, in 1874 and 1875; is instructor in physiol. and histol. in the Portland school for med. instruction ; and since 1874 has been pathologist to the Me. general hosp. He is a member of the Me. med. asso. ; and of the Cumberland со. med. soc., of which he was elected president in Nov., 1876; and of the Am. med. asso.

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American Surgical Sets:        Pre-1861:  1 | 2    -    Civil War:  4 | 5 | 6 | 7     -    Post-1865:  3 

Medical Text-Books:

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Medical Lecture Cards:

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Surgeon CDV Images:

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Medical Staff Swords:

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Hosp Dept Bottles & Tins:

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American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

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Last update: Tuesday, March 16, 2010