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Baltimore University Dispensary

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Location: 233 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1885-1886
    Notes: The College and Hospital buildings are situated at No. 233 East Baltimore street, in a section of the city replete with clinical material for Dispensary and Hospital purposes.
    The Free Dispensary will be opened daily from 12 to 2 o’clock, at which large numbers of out-door The advantages derivable from this mode of teaching can hardly be overestimated.
    Source: Baltimore University, Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Baltimore University School of Medicine Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 3-4
  • Dates: 1901
    Notes: (Estab. 1884), 21-29 north Bond St.; hospital telephone, C&P, St. Paul 2435. Under Medical Faculty of Baltimore University. Hours, 12 m. to 2 p.m. week days.
    Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 43-44

 

Post Hospital Fort McHenry (1839)

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Founded: 1839
Location: Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

Images

Plan and Elevations of the Hospital at Fort McHenry: Drawn from Actual Measurements by R.Q. Butler, Lt. Of Engineers, July 13, 1840. RG 77. National Archives

Plan and Elevations of the Hospital at Fort McHenry: Drawn from Actual Measurements by R.Q. Butler, Lt. Of Engineers, July 13, 1840. RG 77. National Archives

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.. Cator Collection. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.. Cator Collection. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

Edward Sachse, Fort McHenry (detail). Hospital is building in center foreground near main gate. Fort McHenry National Park and Historic Shrine

Edward Sachse, Fort McHenry (detail). Hospital is building in center foreground near main gate. Fort McHenry National Park and Historic Shrine
Post Hospital, Fort McHenry, Maryland [A01136]. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Post Hospital, Fort McHenry, Maryland [A01136]. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
Post Hospital, Fort McHenry, Maryland [A01137]. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Post Hospital, Fort McHenry, Maryland [A01137]. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
Post Hospital, Fort McHenry, Maryland [A01135]. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Post Hospital, Fort McHenry, Maryland [A01135]. Images from the History of Medicine Collection. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1895/02/20
    Notes: Notice, News (Baltimore), February 20, 1895 concerning construction of new hospital at Fort McHenry to replace hospital built in 1840.

Bibliography

  • Ashcraft, Allan, “Fort McHenry in the Civil War” Maryland Historical Magazine (59): 297-303

Baltimore Throat Dispensary

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Closed: 1882
Location: Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1882/09/19
    Notes: Hospital Opening and Dispensary Consolidation. The Baltimore Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital, No. 186 Franklin street, opened its outpatient or dispensary department yesterday. The institution is a consolidation of the Eye and Ear Dispensary of the Church Home, North Broadway, the Baltimore Charity Eye and Ear Dispensary, Central Avenue, the eye and ear department of the Baltimore General Dispensary, Liberty street, and the Baltimore Throat Dispensary, Park avenue, all of which have been discontinued. The staff of the hospital is made up of specialists formerly connected with those institutions, as follows: Eye and ear, Drs. Samuel Theobald, S.L. Frank, Russell Murdock and I. Bermann; throat, Drs. J.H. Hartman, Samuel Johnston and John N. McKenzie; consulting surgeons, Drs. Alan P. Smith, L. McLane Tiffany, Christopher Johnson and Oscar J. Coskery; consulting physicians, Drs. Samuel C. Chew, G.W. Miltenberger, Rigin Buckler and Ferd. J. Chatard, Jr. The hospital is supported by volunteer contributions, and treatment will be supplied free of charge to the poor. The in-patient department, provided with free beds, will be opened about October 1. The officers of the institution are as follows: Hon. Geo. Wm. Brown, president; John W. McCoy, Samuel G. Wyman, vice-presidents; Clayton C. Hall, treasurer; John N. Mackenzie, M.D., secretary; finance committee, Wm. H. Perot, C. Morton Stewart, Mendes Cohen, W.S. Rayner; board of trustees, John Lee Carroll, Ernest Knabe, C. Morton Stewart, Wm. H. Perot, T. Edward Hambleton, Samuel G. Wyman, Jno. W. McCoy, W. S. Rayner, Samuel H. Lyon, T. Harrison Garrett, Mendes Cohen, S. Teackle Wallis, Wesley A. Tucker, Geo. Wm. Brown, Clayton C. Hall.
    Source: Sun (Baltimore), 19 September 1882.

 

Post Hospital Fort McHenry (1814)

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Location: Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

Images

Plan & Sections of Drill Ground at Fort McHenry, Md. Including ordnance, store-rooms, stables hospital grounds, hospital and graveyard. Record Group 77. National Archives

Plan & Sections of Drill Ground at Fort McHenry, Md. Including ordnance, store-rooms, stables hospital grounds, hospital and graveyard. Record Group 77. National Archives

Bibliography

  • Bradford, S. Sydney, “II. Fort McHenry: 1814” Maryland Historical Magazine (54): 188-209
  • Meyer, Sam, “Religion, Patriotism and Poetry in the Life of Francis Scott Key” Maryland Historical Magazine (84): 267-274
  • Sheads, Scott, “‘Yankee Doodle Played’: A Letter from Baltimore 1814” Maryland Historical Magazine (76): 380-382
  • Sheads, Scott, “Defending Baltimore in the War of 1812: Two Sidelights” Maryland Historical Magazine (81): 253-258
  • Walsh, Richard, “Fort McHenry: 1814” Maryland Historical Magazine (54): 59-60
  • Walsh, Richard, “III: The Star Fort: 1814” Maryland Historical Magazine (54): 296-309
  • Weeks, Barbara K., “‘This Present Time of Alarm’: Baltimore Prepares for Invasion” Maryland Historical Magazine (84): 259-266

 

Baltimore Special Dispensary

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Founded: 1861
Location: Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

 

Post Hospital Fort Marshall

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Founded: 1862
Closed: June 13, 1866
Location: Eastern outskirts of the city near Canton in the neighborhood of Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

  • Dates:
    Notes: Garrisoned by the 5th New York Heavy Artillery from May 1862 to April 23, 1864 and later by the 11th Indiana and the 1st U.S. Veterans Volunteers
    Source: Indexes to Field Records of Hospitals, 1821-1912. Maryland. National Archives, Washington, DC. RG94 E544

 

Baltimore Southern Dispensary

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Founded: Incorporated 1870
Location: 106 West Hill Street, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

 

Baltimore Second Dispensary

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Hospitals

Location: Baltimore, MD

Bibliography

  • Baltimore, A series of letters and other documents relating to the late epidemic or yellow fever; comprising: the correspondence of the mayor of the city, the board of health, the executive of the State of Maryland, and the reports of the faculty of and District Medical Society of Baltimore. Also, essays of the physicians, in answer to the mayor’s circular requesting information for the use of the city council in relation to the causes which gave origin to this disease — To which is added, the late ordinance reorganizing the board of health, & c. &c. Published by the authority of the mayor with the consent of the authors for the benefit of the Second Baltimore Dispensary… Baltimore: William Warner, 1820

 

College of Physicians and Surgeons

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Schools

Founded: Established 1872.
Location: Baltimore, MD

  • See also: University of Maryland
  • See also: Washington University School of Medicine

Images

[Anatomy - History: Dissecting Rooms, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore]. Illustrated in Annual Announcement, 1893-1894. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A016205. National Library of Medicine

[Anatomy – History: Dissecting Rooms, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore]. Illustrated in Annual Announcement, 1893-1894. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A016205. National Library of Medicine

Mercy Hospital and College of Physicians and Surgeons. Private Collection.

Mercy Hospital and College of Physicians and Surgeons. Private Collection.

Additional Information

  • Date: 1899, Jul.
    Notes: “The New College Building,” In: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore Jul. 1899: 33-35
  • Date: 1899, Oct.
    Notes: “The Teaching of Practical Medicine” In: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore October, 1899: 89-90
  • Date: 1901, Jan.
    Notes: Dr. William H. Welch, “The Material Needs of Medical Education. Address at the Opening of the New Building of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, December 21, 1899.” In: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore Jan. 1900: 97-106.
  • Date: 1900, Jan.
    Notes: “In a Field Hospital” In: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore Jan. 1900: 113-116.
  • Date: 1900, Jan.
    Notes: “City Hospital Operating-Room” In: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore Jan. 1900: 126-127
  • Date: 1900, Jan.
    Notes: “Opening of the New College Building” In: Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore Jan. 1900: 127-128
  • Date: 1901, Apr.
    Notes: Announcements
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore April 1901, p. 25.
  • Date: 1901, Apr.
    Notes: Commencement
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore April 1901, p. 25.
  • Date: 1901, Jul.
    Notes: Post-Graduate Courses for Alumni
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore July 1901, p. 57-58.
  • Date: 1901, Oct.
    Notes: Dr. W. F. Lockwood, “Extract from the Introduction Address: Session of 1901-2”
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore October 1901, pp. 65-70
  • Date: 1901, Oct.
    Notes: The College
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore October 1901, pp. 89-90
  • Date: 1901, Oct.
    Notes: Post-Graduate Courses
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore October 1901, pp. 90.
  • Date: 1902, Jan.
    Notes:  College Medical Society
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore January 1902, pp. 122-123
  • Date: 1902, Jan.
    Notes: Phi Betta Pi
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore January 1902, pp. 123-124
  • Date: 1902, Jan.
    Notes: Nurses Commencement
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore January 1902, pp. 125
  • Date: 1902, Jan.
    Notes: The Post-Graduate Course
    Source: The Journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore January 1902, pp. 125-126
  • Date: 1910
    Notes: COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Established 1872. An independent institution.
    Entrance requirement: Less than a high school education.
    Attendance: 252
    Teaching staff: 59, of whom 21 are professors, 38 of other grade. One teacher devotes his entire time to medical instruction.
    Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $39,000.
    Laboratory facilities: Ordinary working laboratories are provided for bacteriology, histology, and pathology, including surgical pathology; the chemical laboratory provides satisfactorily for general chemistry. The dissecting-room is fair, as far as it goes. There is no experimental pharmacology and no student work in experimental physiology. The museum consists of several hundred specimens; the library, of which there is a librarian in charge, of perhaps 1500 volumes and a few current periodicals. The undeveloped character of the laboratories is due, (1) to the payment of faculty dividends; (2) to the application of current fee income to the discharge of building debts.
    Clinical facilities: The school completely controls the adjoining hospital, of which some 210 beds, including a maternity ward, are available for teaching. Ward-teaching on the section plan is in use. The clinical laboratory is open to the students.
    The dispensary occupies an excellent suite of rooms; the attendance is ample.
    Date of visit: March, 1909.Source: Flexner, Abraham, Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: 235-235.

Woman’s Medical College of Baltimore

June 2, 2018 By in Baltimore City, Schools

Founded: Opened 1882
Closed: ca. 1910
Location 1882-1885: 126 North Eutaw Street, near Franklin Street, Baltimore, MD
Location 1882-1887?: Hiss property on McCulloh Street, Baltimore, MD
Location 1887-1888: 510 N. Eutaw above Franklin, Baltimore, MD
Location 1888-1895: SE corner Hoffman Street, Baltimore, MD
Location 1895-ca. 1910: corner of McCulloh and Hoffman Sts., Baltimore, MD

  • See also: Hospital of Good Samaritan
  • See also: Women’s and Child’s Hospital and Dispensary

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1901
    Notes: Has an obstetrical department.Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: : 51
  • Dates: 1910
    Notes: WOMAN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE OF Baltimore. Organized 1882. An independent institution.
    Entrance requirement: Less than a high school education.
    Attendance: 22.
    Teaching staff: 31, of whom 18 are professors, 13 of other grade.
    Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $2000.
    Laboratory facilities: Small laboratories, scrupulously well kept, show a desire to do the best possible with meager resources: pathology, bacteriology, embryology, chemistry, and anatomy are thus taught.
    Clinical facilities: These are quite insufficient: across the street from the school is a hospital with 17 beds; supplementary material is obtained at several institutions through staff connections.
    A suite of rooms in the college building is devoted to dispensary purposes. There is a fair attendance. Date of visit: March, 1909.Source: Flexner, Abraham, Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: 237