American Civil War Surgical Antiques

Research and Identification

Civil War Era Surgical Sets, Surgeon's Swords & Images

Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

Established 1995      .     Dr. Michael Echols

Preserving our American Civil War Medical and Surgical History

As seen in: Military Images, American's Civil War Magazine, Warman's Civil War Collectibles, Antique Week, Northeast Antiques, and various Antiques & Collecting publications

 

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Austin Flint, M.D.

 1812 - 1886

Austin Flint, M.D.

(Photo from Duke University, Medspace)

Austin Flint, M.D.  Born in Petersham, Massachusetts and gained his MD at Harvard. His medical teaching career included spells at the University of Louisville and New Orleans Medical College. He helped found Bellevue Medical College in New York City, and taught there and at Long Island College Hospital for many years. He wrote numerous textbooks, of which Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866, with many revised editions) was the best known.

He practiced and taught medicine in Boston and Buffalo, New York. He then taught hospital medicine at various medical schools, becoming an authority on pulmonary and respiratory diseases, and popularizing the use of the binaural stethoscope.

From 1868 until his death in 1886, he served as Professor of Principles and Practice of Internal Medicine and the first Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which NYU School of Medicine had its origins. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Flint is credited with the original descriptions of abnormal breath sounds. Two signs are familiarly identified with his name: Flint's Law and the Austin Flint murmur.

 

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 Wanted:  Pre-1865 medical textbooks marked  "U.S. Army Hospital or Medical Department, USA Hosp. Dept., USA Medical Dept."  Paying $500 and up for marked textbooks in very good or better condition

 

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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