American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques

Surgical Set collections from 1860 to 1865 - Civilian and Military

Civil War:  Medicine, Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks

 

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by Collector:   Douglas Arbittier, MD, MBA

 

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Pre-1864 Civil War Medical Colleges

 

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 University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department

 

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Lecturers: Hutchinson, Carson, Woodhouse, Rush, Coxe, Dorsey, Physick, Horner, James, Dewees, Hodge, Hare, Wood, Jackson, Smith, Leidy, Wood, Wistar

 

University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department  | ExamplesExamples  | Examples  | Catalogue 1873-4

 

 

 

TOPICS TYPICALLY LISTED ON LECTURE CARDS

Anatomy

Physic

Lectures and theory

Surgery

Medica materia or

Materia medica

Anatomy and physiology

Chemistry

Surgical anatomy

Surgical pathology

Clinical surgery

Military surgery

Pathology and practical medicine

Medicine and surgery

Principals practice and operations of surgery

Department of medicine

Ophthalmology

Dermatology

Nervous diseases

Gynaecology

Venereal diseases

Laryngology

Obstetrics

Children

Midwifery

Orthopedic surgery

Comparative anatomy

Operative surgery

Physiology

 

 

Lecture schedule, staff list, text book list

Front and back of same card

 

Enlarged staff list and required textbook list (from above card)

 

 

Instructor signatures on back of 1861-62 matriculation card

Front and back of same card

 

Instructor signatures on back of 1862-63 matriculation card

Front and back of same card

 

Philadelphia Hospital Matriculation cards 1861 and 1862

 

Henry H. Smith, M.D.               Joseph Leidy, M.D.                 Henry H. Smith, M.D.

 

Joseph Leidy, M.D.              William Pepper, M.D.                A. F. Penrose, M.D.                  Joseph Carson, M.D.

 

Samuel Jackson, M.D.

 

 

Henry H. Smith, M.D.

Front and Back of same card

 

R. E. Rogers, M.D.                  Joseph Leidy, M.D.             R. E. Rogers, M.D.

 

Hugh Hodge, M.D.                 William Pepper, M.D.                      H. Hodge, M.D.

Samuel Jackson, M.D.          Joseph Carson, M.D.


After serving as a full surgeon during the Civil War, Dr. Knox re-entered Univ. of Penn Oct. 1865-66

What's very interesting is Dr. Knox returned to the Univ. of Penn. medical college after having served as a full surgeon during the Civil War and repeated some of his courses before moving to Santa Barbara, California to practice until 1913

Matriculation card for 1865 with staff signatures

Front and back of same card

 

Frances G. Smith, Jr., M.D.

 

Joseph Leidy, M.D.                   Alfred Stille, M.D.               Joseph Carson, M.D.

 

  Henry H. Smith, M.D.                 R. E. Rogers, M.D. 


Post-Civil War AMA and other invitations to Dr. Knox

 

Front and Back of same card

    

 

Front and Back of same card

 

Medical Lecture Cards:

 

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Index of Medical Colleges in existence prior to and during the Civil War

 

 

 

Topical Index for General Medical Antiques

 

Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques Index

 

Alphabetical Index for American Civil War Surgical Antiques

 

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