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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Harvard University Medical Department, 1841

Medical Student: Francis Minot*

7 Charles St. A. M., Harvard roll.; M. D., Medical Dep't Harvard Univ. (no date): vice.-pres. med. soc. of Suffolk Dis't; member med. soc. of Mass.; physician to Mass, General Hosp.; consult, physician to Boston Lying-in Hosp.; Ass't  Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, etc., Harvard Univ.

 

See additional information on Francis Minot, who came back to Harvard as a staff member while practicing medicine in Boston.  The notes at the bottom of the ticket were made by, Dr. George R. Minot, who won a Nobel prize in 1934 for the treatment of pernicious anemia.

Anatomy & Physiology: Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.

Harvard University Medical Department, 1867

Medical Student: H. T. Boutwell

 

Name: Henry Thatcher Boutwell
Death date: Dec 21, 1915
Place of death: Santa Barbara, CA
Birth date: 1844
Place of birth: Hancock, NH
Type of practice: Allopath
States and years of licenses: NH, 1897
Places and dates of practices: Manchester, NH, Dec 14, 1911, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar 4, 1915, Jun 30, 1915
Medical school(s): Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1870, (G)
Other education: Phillips Exeter Academy

 

MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL COLLEGE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

1868  Faculty of Instruction is composed of

John B. S. Jackson, M.D.,   Morbid Anatomy
Oliver W. Holmes, M.I).,  Anatomy and Physiology.
George С. Shattack, M.D.,  Theory and Practice of Physic.
Jeffries Wyman, M.D.,  Comparative Anatomy and Physiology.
Henry J. Bigelow, M.D.,  Surgery and Clinical Surgery.
John Bacon, M.D.,  Chemistry.
Charles E. Buckingham, M.D., Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence.
Edward H. Clarke, M.D.,  Materia Medica.
Calvin Ellis, M.D.,  Clinical Medicine.
Richard M. Hodges, M.D.,  Surgery and Clinical Surgery.
James C. White, M.D.,  Chemistry, and Diseases of the Skin.
David W. Cheever, M.D.,  Clinical Surgery.
Josiah Stickney Lombard, M.D.,  Physiology.
John E. Tyler, M.D.,  Psychological Medicine.
Francis Minot, M.D., Theory and Practice.
Fitch E. Oliver, M.D., Materia Medica.
Geo. Derby, M. D.,  Hygiene.
Henry W. Williams, M.D.,  Ophthalmology.
J. Nelson' Borland, M.D.,  Clinical Medicine.
John P. Reynolds, M.D.,  Clinical Medicine.
Algernon Coolage, M.D., Tumors.
Henry K. Oliver, M.D., Laryngoscopy and Diseases of the Larynx.
Hasket Derby, M.D., University Lecturer on Ophthalmology.
Charles W. Swan, M.D.,Theory and Practice.
Charles B. Porter, M-.D., Demonstrator.

 

       Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., M.D.        Mattriculation          

 

John B. S. Jackson, M.D. *       Edward H. Clarke, M.D.

 

George C. Shattuck, M.D.      John Bacon, M.D.  

 

Henry J. Bigelow, M.D.        Calvin Ellis, M.D.

 


Medical Institution of Yale College, 1877-78

Medical Student: Austavus G. Eliot

 

Source: AMA database of deceased physicians:

Name: Augustus Greely Eliot
Death date: May 10, 1911
Place of death: New York, NY
Type of practice: Allopath

 

Yale Medical Department FACULTY 1878

BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, M.D.
STEPHEN G. HUBBARD, M.D.
CHARLES A. LINDSLEY, M.D., Dean
MOSES C. WHITE, M.D.
LUCIAN S. WILCOX, M.D.
DAVID P. SMITH, M.D.
LEONARD J. SANFORD, M.D.
William H. Carmalt, M.D., Lecturer on Ophthalmology and Otology
S. Henry Bronson, M.D., Lecturer on Physiology
William H. Hotchkiss, M.D., Demonstrator in Anatomy
Thomas H. Russell, M.D., Prosector of Surgery
Henry P. Stearns, M.D.,  Lecturer on Insanity

The First Term in the Medical Department began Oct. 3, 1878.

 

Obstetrics by Stephen G Hubbard, M. D.*


Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, 1876 - 77

Dental Student: T. M. Poffenburger

 

Faculty 1876

George Barker, DDS

C. H. Meloney, DDS

C. B. Abell, Jr., M.D., DDS

J. Ewing Means, M.D.

J. Tyson, M.D.

 

George Barker, D.D.S.

 

C. H. Meloney, D.D.S     C. B. Abell, M.D., D.D.S.

 

J. Ewing Means, M.D.        J. Tyson, M.D.

 

 


New York College of Dentistry  1892-93

Dental Student: W. B. Dunning

E. Austin Oakland?           Frank LeRoy Satterlee, M.D.       Faneuil Dunkin Weisse, M.D.


Philadelphia  Hospital, 18??

Dr's: Richardson, Marshall, Keating, Parish, Neff, Musser, Curtin, Osler, Wood, Steinbach, Ransley, Porter, White, Montgomery, Parvin, Janney

    


Long Island College Hospital, 1872 - 1900

Medical Student: Albert J. Leffingwell of New York biography

 

Vivisection is the exploitation of living animals for experiments concerning the phenomena of life . . . . Such experiments may range from procedures which are practically painless, to those involving distress, exhaustion, starvation, baking, burning, suffocation, poisoning, inoculation with disease, every kind of mutilation, and long-protracted agony and death.

Albert Leffingwell, MD, An Ethical Problem (1914)

Wright, M.D.

 

1873-4 

N.  Bates, M.D.                   S. Armor, M.D.             C. L. Ford, M.D.

 

1897-8-9

Dr. J. H.  Raymond

 

Lecture Ticket and Medical College Index

 

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

Civil War medical authors and faculty in this collection with their biographies and lecture card examples

1800 - 1870 Medical College lecture cards as well as Medical College catalogues showing graduates and faculty are wanted-to-buy for this collection.  Please contact Dr. Michael Echols

 

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American Civil War Medical & Surgical Antiques

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