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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Albany Medical College Catalogue, 1850, 1852

Annual Announcement of Lectures with a catalogue of graduates

List of graduates from: 1839 to 1852

1850

1852

It is likely and possible any number of the graduates of Albany Medical College would have served in the Civil War.  They would have been seasoned physicians by the time of the War. 

Posted here are the catalogues for 1850 and 1852, listing the students enrolled at the time (a much, much larger number than shown as graduates for any given year) and the graduates from 1839 to 1852.

Also listed is the faculty and examples of the lecture cards issued to the students for payment and admission to their courses during the current year.

 

Faculty 1950 - 1852

Alden March, M.D., Practice of Surgery

James McNaughton, M.D., Practice of Medicine

T. Romeyn Beck, M.D., Materia Medica

Ebenezer Emmons, M.D., Obstetrics and Natural History

Lewis C. Beck, M.D., Chemistry and Pharmacy

James H. Armsby, M.D., Anatomy

Thomas Hun, M.D., Institue of Medicine

Amos Deal, Exq. Medical Jurisprudence

 Albany Medical College, 1840 - 41

                                    J. H. Armsby, M.D.                     Amos Dean, prof.

Albany Medical College 1862-63

Medical Student: John D. Young

 

John V. P. Quackenbush, M.D.              Howard Townsend, M.D.

 

Dr. J. V. P. Quackenbush was New York Surgeon-General from '63 to '65, under Gov. Seymour, and carried out its arduous duties almost to the end of the war.

(John Quackenbush shown as a graduate in catalogue below)

Graduate List 1839  to 1849

 

Discussion of the College's rules, regulations, data, and fees

A list of the students and their hometowns for the year 1850.  Many of these students may have just been upgrading their knowledge, or dropped out after taking a number of courses.  But, most likely the majority were 'refreshing' or expanding their limited knowledge.  The number of students registered for a current year is huge compared to how may actually graduated in previous years.  Since the admission requirements and the curriculum was only two years, it might have been a case of many attended, but few succeeded.

1852, list of former graduates, current students, and rules and regulations

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Direct links to all medical & Civil War collections on this site

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

Medical Text-Books:

1 | 1a | 2 | 2a | 3 | 3a | 4 | 4a | 5 | 5a | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9a | 10 | 11 | 12

Medical Lecture Cards:

1 | 2 | 34 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20

Surgeon CDV Images:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Medical Staff Swords:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

Hosp Dept Bottles & Tins:

1 | 2 | 3 |

 

Currently Seeking to Purchase for this Collection

Partial or Incomplete surgical sets or instruments by:  Snowden, Tiemann, Gemrig, Kolbe', Hernstein

 Any medical instrument or book marked:   U.S.A. / Hosp. Dep't.  or  U.S.A. / Med. Department

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American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

This site is an active on-going collection and research project.  Additions are actively being sought.  Information and evaluations on pre-1865 material are gladly provided to individuals, universities, authors, archivists, museums, libraries, auction houses, antique dealers, and researchers. 

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Last update: Tuesday, March 16, 2010