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Jefferson Medical College
Lecture Cards
1867-70
Medical Student: Charles P. Levy,
Tennessee
Birth
date: Nov 1846
Early years:
Trenton, Gibson, Tennessee
Later years: Thornton town, Limestone, Texas
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Jefferson Medical College 1867-69
(First Year for Levy)
Original
leather folder for storing the lecture cards during two school years
Receipt for
lecture ticket purchases
Matriculation card with signatures of the faculty in 1867-69
Anatomy:
Joseph Pancoast, M.D.
During the civil war
Joseph
Pancoast served as a surgeon in the Union army.
Practice of
Medicine:
Samuel Henry Dickson, M.D.
Surgery:
Samuel D. Gross, M.D.
When the U.S.
Civil War began,
Gross produced A Manual of Military Surgery
(1861), with a pirated Confederate version appearing in
Richmond in 1862. A copy of many of his surgical
books are contained in this
Civil War collection.
Material
Medica, John B. Biddle, M.D.
Chemistry:
B. Howard Rand, M.D.
Obstetrics:
Ellerslie
Wallace, M.D.
Institutes
of Medicine: Robley Dunglison, M.D.
Jefferson Medical College 1869-70
(Second Year for Levy)
Receipt
for lecture ticket purchases
Matriculation card with signatures of the faculty in 1869-70
Practice of Medicine:
S. Henry Dickson
Anatomy: Joseph Pancoast, M.D.
Anatomy: Joseph Pancoast, M.D.
Surgery: Samuel D. Gross, M.D.
Obstetrics:
Ellerslie
Wallace, M.D.
Material Medica, John B. Biddle, M.D.
Chemistry: B. Howard Rand, M.D.
Jefferson Medical College
Professors
This is a CDV (Carte-De-Visite) set
of portraits mounted on a matte of the Professors of the Jefferson
Medical College made by Wm. Houseworth Studio Philadelphia circa
late 1850's. Jefferson Medical College was founded in 1824 in
Philadelphia and in 1969 became Thomas Jefferson University.
The CDV contains 9 smaller CDV
photos in B&W on a brown matte. The center photo is the famous
Professor Samuel Gross. According the Thomas Jefferson University
-Samuel Gross was one of America’s most distinguished and
influential surgeons, physicians, anatomists, authors and teachers.
As Jefferson Medical College chair of surgery from 1856 to 1882, Dr.
Gross inspired thousands of Jefferson medical students and
assistants with his articulate lectures, calm judgment, mechanical
dexterity, and contributions to surgical technique. Gross was author
and editor of hundreds of articles and many books, including his
acclaimed two-volume System of Surgery of 1859. Eakins studied
anatomy with Gross in 1874, which inspired him to paint his
uncommissioned masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, in 1875. Gross was
75 at the time of Eakins portrait. This portrait shows Gross at
about the age of 50-55. He is listed on the back as Professor of
Surgery.
The back of the portraits has the
names of the professors in pencil with the subject they taught and
is signed by a graduate of the College who graduated sometime in
the mid to late 1860's. The professors signatures I can identify
are, Gross,
Wallace,
Rodgers,
Pancoast,
Barthalow, Chapman,
DaCosta.
Jefferson Medical College was
founded in 1824-1825 through the efforts of Dr. George
McClellan. The medical faculty consisted of six
instructors who taught classes by didactic lecture in the
Old Tivoli Theater at 518-520 Prune Street (now Locust Walk)..
College clinics were conducted for clinical instruction.
Two class sessions, each 20 weeks long, were held every
year.
The faculty at Jefferson in
October 1863 consisted of Drs. Samuel H. Dickson,
Samuel
D. Gross, Franklin Bache,
Joseph and William Henry
Pancoast,
Ellerslie Wallace, Thomas D. Mitchell, and
Robley
Dunglison. These gentlemen were representative of America's
finest, but aging, medical minds. Only Wallace and William
Pancoast were relatively recent medical graduates (1843
and 1856, respectively). Mitchell was 72 years old, and
Bache died between sessions.
Samuel H. Dickson, MD
(1798-1872), assumed the chair in theory and practice of
medicine on the death of John Kearsley Mitchell, MD, in
1858. Dickson was 60 years of age when he accepted this
position. A graduate of Yale University (1814) and University
of Pennsylvania Medical Department (1819), Dickson was
eminently qualified to speak with authority on fevers.
The title of his dissertation was History of Yellow
Fever, and he authored several papers on the general
topic of fevers. He said of himself in 1860. (The
Medical Education of William Brooks Bigler (1863)
Suzanne M.
Shultz, MA )
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