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Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

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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.  Two years and you're good to go.


For example, Jefferson Medical College, and the medical profession, placed its emphasis on graduation, not entrance requirements. To receive the M.D. degree, applicants were required to be: 21 years of age, have attended two one year 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-1870, 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 purchase 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.

 

Topics: Lecture tickets, Admission ticket tickets, Programme, Physic & surgery, Lectures and theory, Surgery, Medica materia, Materia Medica, Anatomy and physiology, Chemistry, Surgical anatomy, Surgical pathology, Operative surgery, 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, Midwifery, Orthopedic surgery, Comparative anatomy

 

Various Pre- Civil War Medical Colleges in the 1800's

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Examples of lecture tickets on heavy paper (@ 2 x 3, 3 x 4 in.) with topics imprinted for the lecturer and signed plus the students' name

 

Wanted: Pre-1870 medical and dental college lecture cards

 

University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1820 -1821

Prior to the 1830's Scotland was a famous location for training American surgeons.  There were not that many good medical programs in the colonies and men who wanted to train as physicians tended to go to France and the British Isles.

Medical Student: William McGuire

 

 


Dartmouth College, 1820,  1821, 1861

Medical Student David French, (Sr.) the father

Medical Student David French, (Jr.) the son

 

Usher Parsons, M. D.           R. D. Mussey, M. D.

 

R. D. Mussey, M. D.

 


New Hampshire Medical Institution, Dartmouth College, 1861

Medical Student David French, (Jr.)

 

E. R. Peaslee, M. D.       Matriculation

 


New York Hospital, 1859

Medical Student: B. Balch

 

 


Geneva Medical College, N.Y., 1843-44

Student: J. F. McNaughton (sp?)

 

James Webster, M. D.

 


Medical College of Ohio, 1839; 1861- 62

Medical Student: John C. Miller

 

Matriculation 1839

 

  

George Blackman, M.D. 

 


Albany Medical College, 1840 - 41

Medical Student: Leon G. Vunadort (sp?)

 

 

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

 

Albany Medical College 1862-63

Medical Student: John D. Young

 

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

 


Transylvania University, Kentucky, 1841 - 42

Medical Student: D. H. Henderson of Indiana

 

   

Robert Peter, M.D.                                           James Crop, M. D.

 

William Richardson, M.D.         Thomas Mitchell, M.D.

 


University of Vermont, 1864

University of Vermont State Agricultural College, Medical Dept., 1884

Medical Students: M. G Taylor;  B. F. Billings

 

J. Henry Jackson, M. D.         D. S. Conant, M. D.

 


Medical Department of the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio

Cleveland Medical College - Western Reserve College, 1849 - 50

Medical Student: Levi Day

 

 

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

Medical Student: James H. Anderson

 

Name: James Henry Anderson
Death date: Dec 10, 1923
Place of death: Brookline, NY
Birth date: 1839
Type of practice: Allopath
Places and dates of practices: Brookline, MA, 1860
Medical school(s): New York University Medical College, New York: Univ. of City of New York Med. Dept., 1860, 

 

      Alfred Post, M.D.                      Gunning Bedford, M.D

 


 

Lecture Ticket and Medical College Index

 

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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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Civil War: Medical textbooks and Medical College lecture cards

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American Civil War Surgical Antiques 

Research notes and a private collection

 Examples of Pre-1865 Civilian & Civil War Military Surgical Antiques

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