Birth: 1778
Death: 1855, Aug. 24
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

Baltimore City

US Census

Year	Occupation	County	Ward/District	Post Office	Page
1850	physician	Baltimore City	13		346

Directories

Date	Name	Occupation	Address	City
1816	H.G. Jameson	apothecary & chemical manufacturer	N. Liberty near Saratoga Street	Baltimore City
1819	Horatio G. Jameson	doctor	corner of Conewago Street & Forrest Lane	Baltimore City
1814-1815	Horatio G. Jameson	druggist	16 N. Howard Street	Baltimore City
1842	Horatio G. Jameson	doctor	Lexington st w of Park	Baltimore City
1812	Horatio Jameson	M.D. druggist and apothecary	16 N. Howard St.	Baltimore City
1840-1841	Horatio G. Jameson	doctor	S. Calvert St. opposite Lovely Lane, at Mrs. Hanna’s boarding house	Baltimore City
1831	Horatio G. Jameson	professor of surgery in Washington Medical College	corner Fayette and Liberty Sts.	Baltimore City
1822-1823	Horation G. Jemmisson	M.D.	NW corner of North and Fayette	Baltimore City
1845	H. Jameson	physicians	Lexington st. near Howard	Baltimore City
1829	Horatio G. Jameson	physician and surgeon	corner of Fayette and Liberty Sts.	Baltimore City
1824	Horatio G. Jamison	M.D.	NW corner of North and Fayette St.	Baltimore City
1827	Horatio G. Jamison	M.D.	SE corner of Liberty and Fayette	Baltimore City
1853-1854	Horatio G. Jameson	doctor	131 Lexington St.; dw: 150 Hanover St.	Baltimore City

Additional Information

Dates: 1778-1855
Notes: Biographical sketch
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 779-795
Dates: 1778-1855
Notes: Born at York, Pa., 1778. Pupil of his father (Dr. David Jameson); began practice in 1795; practiced at Wheeling, 1799-1801; later, in Pennsylvania; attended lectures at Baltimore, where he settled about 1810; M.D., University of Maryland, 1813; Surgeon, General Hospital, U.S.A., Baltimore 1814; Surgeon, Baltimore Hospital, 1814-35; Physician to Jail; Consulting Physician, Board of Health, 1821-1835; Founder and President, Washington Medical College, Baltimore, 1827; Professor of Surgery, Washington Medical College, 1827-35; visited Europe, 1830; First President and Professor of Surgery, Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, 1835-36; returned to Baltimore, 1836; removed to York, Pa., 1854; Member of the Philosophical Societies of Berlin, Moscow, etc.; Editor of Maryland Medical Recorder, Baltimore, 1829-33; author of “Lectures on Fevers,” 8vo, 1817; “American Domestic Medicine,” 8vo, Baltimore, 1817., second edition, 1818; “Yellow Fever,” 8vo, Baltimore, 1824; “Treatise on Cholera,” 8vo, Philadelphia, 1854; he was one of the ablest surgeons of his day. Died at New York City, August 24, 1855.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 452
Dates: 1820
Notes: Dr. H. G. Jameson, of Baltimore, successfully extirpates nearly the entire upper jaw, having first ligated the common carotid artery; the first time the operatrion had ever been done.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 685
Dates: 1820
Notes: Dr. Jameson ligates the external iliac artery for aneurism.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 686
Dates: 1820, Jan.
Notes: “Dr. H.G. Jameson removes the upper maxillae, after tying the carotid. (Med. Recorder, xx.230. The first operation of the kind on record. Gross.)”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 30
Dates: 1821
Notes: “Dr. Jameson (H.G.) ligates the external iliac artery for aneurism. (Medical Recorder, iv. 222-231).”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 30
Dates: 1822
Notes: Ovariotomy attempted at Baltimore by Dr. Jameson.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 687
Dates: 1822/09/02
Notes: Jameson performs tracheotomy (September 2, see Recorder).
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 687
Dates: 1823/05/15
Notes: Dr. Jameson performs tracheotomy for foreign body (May 15 and again in September).
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 688
Dates: 1823/10
Notes: “Dr. Jameson (among the first in Maryland) performs Tracheotomy (Medical Recorder, viii 86). He also attempts Ovariotomy, but fails (ibid. 1829, p. 214, first attempt in Baltimore). Jameson also (the first in Great Britain or America) excises the Neck of Uterus.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 32
Dates: 1824
Notes: Jameson excises the cervix uteri, the first time in Great Britain or America (May).
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 688
Dates: 1826/08/25
Notes: “Dr. Jameson successfully operates for stone.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 33
Dates: 1826-1835
Notes: Consulting Phyician, Board of Health
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 263
Dates: 1827/03
Notes: “Washington College, of Washington, Pa., authorizes the establishment of a Medical School in Baltimore. Faculty are H.G. Jameson, Surgery; Sam. K. Jennings, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Wm. W. Handy, Obstetrics and Diseases of Women; James H. Milller, Practice; Sam. Annan, Anatomy and Physiology; John W. Vethake, Chemistry. They organize and lecture on Holliday street, opposite the Old City Hall.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 33-34
Dates: 1827/04/25
Notes: Washington College, of Washington, Pa., authorizes the establishment of a medical school at Baltimore, with the following faculty: H.G. Jameson, Surgery; S.K. Jennings, Materia Medica; W. W. Handy, Obstetrics; James H. Miller, Practice; S. Annan, Anatomy and Physiology; J. W. Vethake, Chemistry (April 25); the lectures begin the following fall on Holliday Street, opposite the City Hall.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 689
Dates: 1827-1828 session
Notes: Faculty, Washington Medical College, Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy
Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 20
Dates: 1829
Notes: Maryland Medical Recorder, a quarterly periodical, begun at Baltimore by Dr. Jameson.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 691
Dates: 1831
Notes: Retro-vaccination of the cow performed by Dr. H. G. Jameson, Consulting Physician to Board of Health of Baltimore and virus thus obtained successfully used; 4000 vaccinated during year.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 692
Dates: 1831/03/07
Notes: “Dr. H. G. Jameson secures virus by vaccinating a cow.”
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 35
Dates: 1833
Notes: Incorporator, charter of 1833, Washington Medical College
Source: Abrahams, Harold J., Extinct Medical Schools of Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society: 22
Dates: 1835
Notes: Dr. John P. Mettauer, of Virginia, appointed Professor of Surgery in Washington Medical College, Baltimore, vice Jameson, removed to Cincinnati.
Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 694
Dates: 1856
Notes: Dr. Horatio Gates Jameson ob. Aet. 63 (in Philadelphia).
Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 41

Bibliography

Jameson, Horatio G., Lectures on fevers in general; in which their causes, symptoms, and sanatives are reviewed. With critical observations on causes, pathology, animal life, & c. & c. Baltimore: Printed for the author by John D. Toy. 48 p. 8 vo.
Jameson, Horatio G., An inaugural dissertation on the supposed power of the uterus� Baltimore: J. Robinson. 17 p. 22 cm.
Thesis — University of Maryland
Jameson, Horatio G., The American domestick medicine, or, Medical admonisher containing some account of anatomy, the senses, diseases, caualties: a dispensatory, and glossary: in which the observations, and remedies, are adapted to the diseases, & c. of the United States: designed for the use of families. Baltimore: Published by F. Lucas, Jun.; J. Robinson, printer. xii, [17]-675 (I.e. 657), [2] p. front. 23 cm.
Includes (p. [136]-162) an abstract of an account of yellow fever in Baltimore in 1794, taken from letters written by Thomas Drysdale to Benjamin Rush and published in 1805 in v. 1 of the Philadelphia medical museum.
Jameson, Horatio G., The American domestick medicine, or, Medical admonisher containing some account of anatomy, the senses, diseases, caualties: a dispensatory, and glossary: in which the observations, and remedies, are adapted to the diseases, & c. of the United States: designed for the use of families. 2d. Edition, with additions and improvements Baltimore: Published by the author; John D. Toy, printer. 574, [2] p. front. 23 cm.
Includes a new part on “Bleeding” (p. 98-103) sections on “Land scurvy” and “Corns” (p. 353-355) and several additions to the “Dispensatory” not in the edition of 1817.
“Erratum”: p. [576]
Jameson, Horatio Gates, An introductory lecture delivered at the opening of Washington Medical College of Baltimore, for 1827 & ‘8. Baltimore: Matchett. 18 p.
Microfilm. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm
Location: HMD Collection
Call Number: W J31i 1828
Location: Microform Collection
Call Number: Film 2022