In colonial American, and up
until the 1830's most surgeons were trained in London or
Edinburgh, Scotland. Among the most famous surgeons who
taught at that time was Robert Liston, M.D. The lecture
card shown below is signed by Dr. Liston and has a wax seal in
the upper left with impression of a stamp to show the student
paid for the lecture session, as of 1827. They don't get
much better or more rare.
Additional information on Dr. Robert Liston,
Robert Liston,
M.D., Surgeon
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1827
FIRST BRITISH SURGEON TO
OPERATE USING ETHER ANESTHETIC
Wax seal and Liston's signature
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 for their
medical education. These lecture cards are an
early example of the practice of selling admission cards to the
lectures of the various physicians who taught in the medical
colleges of the time.
Medical Student: William
McGuire
(Apparently he
did not graduate from University of Glasgow)
Thomas Thomsen,
M.D.
James Armour,
M.D. Thomas Thomsen, M.D.
James Armour, M.D. was a
member of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Glasgow.
The College was founded on the 29th
November 1599 with the grant of a charter from James VI to Peter
Lowe, Surgeon, Robert Hamilton, Physician and William Spang,
Apothecary. The charter empowered them, their heirs and
successors to establish a body to examine all professing the art
of surgery in Glasgow and South West Scotland.
John Burns, M.D.
Robert Freer,
M.D. James Armour, M.D.
Robert Freer (c 1747-1827)
was Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the
University, from 1796 until his death in 1827. Freer was a
graduate of the University of Edinburgh (MA, 1765) and studied
Medicine in Holland before going to America during the
Revolutionary War as a surgeon. He was awarded an MD by King's
College, Aberdeen in 1779 and was in private practice in
Edinburgh before his appointment to the Chair at Glasgow.
Dartmouth College, 1820,
1821
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
Medical Student: Galusha B. Balch
During the Civil War, Galusha
B. Balch, of Yonkers, N. Y., was an assistant surgeon in
the New York, 2 nd Veteran Cavalry, (Empire Light Cavalry),
mustered out Nov. 9, 1865. Balch served in the 2nd from
January 1864; Balch later served as a full surgeon from
August 1862 in the 98th Infantry. Reported a case of a
bullet in the human heart, 1861.
See additional
Civil War information
on G. B. Balch
Name: Galusha Burchard
Balch
Death date: Apr 8, 1919
Place of death: Richmond, MA
Birth date: Feb 6, 1839
Place of birth: Plattsburg, NY
Type of practice: Allopath
Practice specialities: GS General Surgery
Places and dates of practices: Yonkers, NY, 1860,
Richmond, MA, Dec 18, 1917
Medical school(s): Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1860, (G)
Other education: Public school, Pittsburgh Acad
Journal of the American Medical Association
Citation: 72:1242 |
History of New York
City Hospital
John Warren, treasurer 1844
1858 New York Affiliated
Hospitals
Geneva Medical College,
N.Y., 1843-44
Student: J. F. McNaughton
James Webster, M. D.
In 1849 Geneva Medical
College conferred the degree of M. D. on Elizabeth Blackwell and
became honorably famous as the first medical college in the
world to confer this degree in course on a woman. Among the
members of the faculty of the Geneva Medical College who made it
memorable and added to the brilliancy of Geneva society were:
Edward Cutbush, Thomas Spencer. Charles Brodhead Coventry,
Willard Parker.
James
Webster, James Hadley,
Frank Hastings Hamilton, Thomas Rush Spencer, Charles Alfred
Lee, John Towler, Frederick Hyde. Hiram Newton Eastman, Nelson
Nivison, Charles Everts Rider.
New York Hospital,
1844
Medical Student: John McNaughton
Albany Medical College, 1840 - 41
Medical Student: Leon G. Vanadort
(sp?)
J. H. Armsby, M.D.
Amos Dean, prof.
See the
Albany Medical College Catalogues, 1850 & 1852, showing
faculty and graduate lists
Albany Medical College
1862-63
Medical Student: John D. Young*
(In the Roster, Ass't surgeon
John Young shows up as 'dismissed', no other information found.)
Name: John D. Young
Death date: Jan 7, 1902
Place of death: Starkville, NY
Type of practice: Allopath
Journal of the American Medical Association
Citation: 38:192 |
John V. P. Quackenbush,
M.D.
Howard Townsend, M.D.
John V. P. Quackenbush,
M.D. was New York
Surgeon-General from '63 to '65, under
Gov. Seymour, and carried out its arduous duties almost to the end of
the war.
Medical College of Ohio,
1839; 1861- 62
Medical student: Chas. M. Godfrey
(1839)
Ottawa, Ohio
John T. Shotwell, M.D., Matriculation 1839
Medical Student: John C. Miller
(1861-62)
Graduated Medical College of
Ohio, 1864, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1865
George Blackman, M.D.
Transylvania University, Kentucky,
1841 - 42
Medical Student: H. D. Henderson of Indiana
*
Robert Peter, M.D.
James Crop, M. D.
William Richardson, M.D. Thomas Mitchell, M.D.
Medical College of the State of South Carolina,
1853 - 54
Medical Student: J. B. Farmier (sp?)
J. Edwards Holbrook, M.D. Henry
R. Frost, M.D.
During the civil war
Dr. Holbrook was head of the examining board of surgeons of South Carolina
for the CSA.
Henry
Frost,
M.D. was an Assistant Surgeon - 1st Reg't. Artillery for the CSA
Medical Department of the
Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio
Cleveland Medical College - Western Reserve College, 1849 - 50
Medical Student: Levi Day
Grandville, Michigan
(Day doesn't show up in the
AMA data or the Roster)
Jared P. Kirtland, M.D.
Horace A. Ackley, M.D.
J. Lang Cassels, M. D.
Jacob J. Delamater, M.D.
University of New York, Department of Medicine,
1858, 1861, 1862
Medical Student: James H. Anderson*
During the Civil War, James
H. Anderson served as an assistant surgeon, in the U.S. Army,
Surgeon to the Home for the aged and indigent blind since 1870:
as sited in the Catalogue of the Graduates and Officers of the
Medical Department of the University of the City of New York,
1872.
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. Draper,
M.D Gunning Bedford, 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.
David S. Conant, M. D.
With the beginning of the
Civil War David S. Conant, M. D.
volunteered as a surgeon, and on the field did an incredible amount
of surgery, often under embarrassing conditions and with a high
percentage of recoveries.
After the battle of Antietam Conant volunteered his services, and owing
to his great exertions contracted an intestinal disease which never
entirely left him.
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.
