Early Pennsylvania Medical College Lecture
Cards
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Philadelphia College of Medicine, 1858-59,
1859-60
Pennsylvania College Medical
Department
Medical Department of
Pennsylvania College
(Only existed twelve years after being
founded in 1847)
The Philadelphia
College of
Medicine, located at the northwest corner of Fifth and
Adelphi Streets, was organized about 1846, and at its first
commencement, in 1847, graduated eighteen students. The faculty were
Jesse R. Burden, president; James McClin- tock, dean and professor
of Principles and Practice of Surgery ; Rush Van Dyke, Materia
Medica and General Therapeutics; Thomas D. Mitchell, Theory and
Practice of Medicine; James Bryan,
Institutes of Medicine and Medical
Jurisprudence; Ezra S. Carr, Medical Chemistry; James McClintock,
General, Special, and Surgical Anatomy ; Frederick A. Fickardt,
Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. In 1853, Dr. Bryan
was transferred to the chair of Surgery ; Dr. Thomas Spencer was
elected professor of Materia Medica and Pathology, vice Dr.
Van Dyke, transferred to the chair of Practice of
Medicine ; and Dr. Henry Geiger was
elected professor of Obstetrics. From 1847 to 1854 about four
hundred students were graduated. In the latter year the
college was reorganized, and adopted
the code of ethics of the American Medical Association.
The following
were the officers and faculty under the new régime: Hon.
Ellis Lewis, M.D., LL.D., president; J. R. Tyson, LL.D., secretary ;
Dr. George Hewston, professor of Anatomy; Dr. B. Howard Rand, dean
and professor of Chemistry ; Dr. Henry Hartehorne, professor of the
Institutes of Medicine ; Dr. Isaac A.
Penny packer, professor of Theory and Practice of
Medicine ; Dr. James L. Tyson,
professor of Materia Medica and General Therapeutics ; Dr. Joseph
Parrish, professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children
; Dr. Edwin M. Tilden, professor of Surgery. In 1855, Dr. Lewis D.
Harlow succeeded Dr. Parrish as professor of Obstetrics. In 1856,
Dr. Alfred T. King was elected to the chair of Theory and Practice
of Medicine, vice Dr.
Pennypacker, deceased, and Dr. George Dock to the chair of Surgery.
In 1857, Dr. King was elected emeritus professor, and his chair was
taken by Dr. Hartshorne ; Dr. William
S. Halsey was elected professor of
Surgery, Dr. William H. Taggart, professor of Materia Medica and
Therapeutics, and Dr. James Aitken Meigs, professor of the
Institutes of Medicine. In 1858, Dr.
William H. Gobrecht was elected professor of Anatomy.
In 1859 the
college united with the medical
department of Pennsylvania College,
and the faculty of the Philadelphia College
of Medicine became the faculty
of the Pennsylvania Medical
College,
with Dr. Lewis D.
Harlow as dean.
Pennsylvania College.
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Medical Department.
Faculty 1859
B.
Howard Band,
M.D.,
Professor of Chemistry.
Henry Hartshorne,
M.D.,
Professor of Practice of
Medicine.
Lewis D.
Harlow, M.D.,
Professor of Obstetrics
William S.
Halsey,
M.D.,
Professor of Surgery.
William Hembel Taggart,
M.D.,
Professor of Materia Medica.
James Aitken Meigs,
M.D.,
Professor of Institutes of
Medicine.
William II.
Gobrecht,
M.D.,
Professor of Anatomy.
Faculty 1850
Wm. H. Gobrecht, M. D.,
Professor of Anatomy.
B. Howard Rand, M. D.,
Professor of Chemistry.
Henry Hartshorn, M.D.,
Professor of Theory and
Practice of Medicine.
William H. Taggart, M. D.,
Professor of Materia Medica
and Therapeutics.
William S. Halsey, M. D.,
Professor of the Principles
and Practice of Surgery
Lewis D. Harlow, M. D.,
Professor of Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women and
Children.
James A. Meigs, M. D.,
Professor of the Institutes
of Medicine.
Wm. Bradley, M. D.,
Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Wm. H. Hazzard, M. D.,
Prosecutor of Surgery.
B. Howard Rand, M. D., Dean.
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Medical Student: John K. Hartz
John K. Hartz,
M.D., Litiz, Pa. , graduated Univ. of Pa. Medical
Dept. 1860, member of medical society of Lancaster
City and County
Howard Rand, M.D.
Lewis Harlow, M. D. William S. Halsey, M.D.
During the Civil War,
Lewis
Harlow, M.D was a full surgeon, U.S.V.
Dr. Harlow
was Surgeon in charge of the Philadelphia hospital and later was
promoted to Surgeon of U.S. Volunteers.
Wm. Bradley, M. D.
James A. Meigs, M. D.
Assistant
Surgeon
William
A.
Bradley,
United States Army, died February 27, 1869,
at Point San José, San Francisco, California, of convulsions.
Military History.—William
A. Bradley, born in District of Columbia. Appointed from
District of Columbia, Assistant Surgeon
United States Army, October 22, 1861. With the Army of the Potomac,
to December, 1862. Hospital duty, Washington, D. C., to February,
1864. In Medical Director's Office, Department of Washington, to
June, 1869. At Point San Jose, California, to date of his death.
Pennsylvania Hospital, 1859
Medical Student: J. K. Hartz
Student: J. K. Hartz
Admit: D. A. Nelson, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania Medical
Department, 1876-77
Medical Student: Robert C. Irwin
Name: Robert C. Irwin
Death date: Dec 31, 1929
Death date note: This is an approximation of the
individual's death date.
Type of practice: Allopath
Medical school(s): University of Louisville School of
Medicine, Louisville: Hosp. Med. Coll. of Louisville, 1860,
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Alfred Stille, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Medical University 1876-77
Medical Student: Levi J. Enders (of Penn.)
Name: Levi J. Enders
Death date: Dec 31, 1929
Death date note: This is an approximation of the
individual's death date.
Type of practice: Allopath
Medical school(s): United States Medical College, New York,
1881, (G)
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R. E. Rogers, M.D.
H. C. Wood, M.D.
From
1862 to 1863
Dr. R.
E. Rogers was an acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., assigned to
the Satterlee Military Hospital in Philadelphia.
During the Civil War,
Dr. H.
C. Wood served in various hospitals in the Philadelphia
area.
H. L. Hodge, M.D.
Joseph Leidy, M.D.
D. Hayes Agnew, M.D.
Frances G. Smith, Jr. M.D.
From 1861 to 1863
Frances G.
Smith was medical director of the Christian Street
Military Hospital, and left this post, under orders, to
attend sick and wounded officers in the city.
David Hayes Agnew, M.D.
(1818-1892), renowned surgeon and chair of operative surgery
at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Agnew was
immortalized in the 1889 painting The Agnew Clinic
by Thomas Eakins
Baer, B. F.,
M.
D.
Penn Medical University
1879-80
Medical Student: L. G. Endrus
E. D. Buckman,
M.D.
During the Civil War,
E.
D. Buckman, M. D., of Pennsylvania
served as an Assistant-Surgeon.
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