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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Medical College Lecture Tickets

 

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Starling Medical College, 1848-1849-1850

Moore, Abram C. Moore, Bantam, OH

 

Name: Abram C. Moore
Death date: Jan 7, 1910, age 83
Place of death: Cincinnati, OH
Birth date: 1827
Type of practice: Allopath
Medical school(s): Starling Medical College, Columbus, 1850, (G)
Journal of the American Medical Association Citation: 54:402

 

 

University of Maryland, 1862-63

Medical student: Frank T. Shaw, U.S. Congressman from Maryland

 

 Richard A. McSherry, M.D.

In 1825, there were three hundred students in attendance at the University of Maryland, in Baltimore.  During the Civil War, the University of Maryland lost most of it's students because they were from southern states.  The attendance dropped 50%, the lowest point being 1862-63 when there were only 103 students and 37 graduates.


University of Maryland Medical School, 1832-33

Medical student:  William Carrick McPherson, M.D., who went on to become a prominent physician in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

 

 

Nathaniel Potter, M.D         Robley Dunglison, M.D.

 

Professor Julius Timoleon Ducatel

 

 

Nathan Ryno Smith, M.D

 

Eli Geddings, M.D.

Eli Geddings, M.D. was a surgeon in the Confederate army during the civil war. When the fall of Charleston was imminent, his rare medical library was sent to Columbia, where it perished in the fire that destroyed a large part of the City.

 

Richard Wilmont Hall, M.D.       Soloman Etting, Treas., 1833


Burnside Laying-In-Hospital, Toronto, Canada, 1875

 

( A Laying-In Hospital was for birthing, not ambulatory patients,  note the doctors are:  Physician 'Accoucheur' or one who delivers babies )

Read the Notice, which describes how women were being infected by 'infected' students and doctors via dissection-transfer of disease


University of Michigan, 1873 - 1875

Medical Student: John F. Thomson

 

Medical Department of the University of Michigan (1862-68)
Faculty 1862

Dean, SILAS II. DOUGLASS, M.D.
Secretary, ALONZO B. PALMER, M.D.
ZINA PITCHER, M.D., Emeritus Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Obstetrics.
ABRAM SAGER, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children.
SILAS II. DOUGLASS, M.D., Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology.
MOSES GUNN, M.D., Professor of Surgery.
ALONZO B. PALMER, M.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and pathology.
CORYDON L. FORD.M.D., Professor of Anatomy,
SAMUEL G. ARMOR, M.D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medico.
HON. THOMAS M. COOLEY, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence,
ALFRED DcBOIS, M.A., Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
WILLIAM LEWITT, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.

 

   

Donald Maclean, M.D., Dean      G. E. Nottingham, M.D.  

 

  

  Abram Sager, M.D, Dean      Alonzo B. Palmer, M.D.

 


 

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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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:

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Medical Lecture Cards:

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Surgeon CDV Images:

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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

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Last update: Friday, March 12, 2010