Baltimore University Lying In Hospital

Location: Adjoins Baltimore University Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1888-1889
    Notes: THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. Supported solely by the University, is directly under its immediate control, and adjoins the general Hospital. Students have at all times access to it, under the direction of the Professor of Obstetrics, and in cases of labor are called upon to assist.
    Source: Baltimore University, Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Baltimore University School of Medicine Baltimore: Record Printing House: 4
  • Dates: 1897-1898
    Notes: THE LYING-IN HOSPITAL. This department is supported solely by the University, is directly under its immediate control and adjoins the general hospital. Students have at all times access to it, under the direction of the Professor of Obstetrics, and in cases of labor are called upon to assist. Members of the graduating class are taken in squads of three or four students each and are notified promptly whenever labor occurs. These squads are assigned in rotation to attend labor cases in the hospital under the immediate supervision of the Professor of Obstetrics, they are thoroughly instructed in vaginal examinations and the antiseptic precautions to be taken in making such examinations, abdominal palpation, the diagnosis of presentation and in the treatment of the case preparatory to, during and after labor.
    Source: Baltimore University, Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Baltimore University School of Medicine Baltimore: Sun Book and Job Printing Office: 18

 

Baltimore University Dispensary

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)

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
    NotesNotice, 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

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)

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

Founded: 1861
Location
: Baltimore, MD

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Post Hospital Fort Marshall

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

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

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