University Hospital [University of Maryland]

Founded: Founded as Baltimore Infirmary, 1823
Location: Lombard and Greene Streets, Baltimore, MD

Images

 

Hospital building, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.. American Memory Project,Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 LC-D4-16524 DLC (b&w glass neg.). American Memory, Library of Congress

Hospital building, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.. American Memory Project,Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 LC-D4-16524 DLC (b&w glass neg.). American Memory, Library of Congress

University of Maryland Hospital: Interior View - ward scene. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A010405. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital: Interior View – ward scene. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A010405. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: general view. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A010406. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: general view. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A010406. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: general view. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A010407. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: general view. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A010407. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: general view. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A026880. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: general view. Images from the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A026880. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division

University of Maryland, School of Medicine Administration Building, and Dentistry Pharmacy and Hospital, Baltimore, Md.. Images of the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A026827. National Library of Medicine

University of Maryland, School of Medicine Administration Building, and Dentistry Pharmacy and Hospital, Baltimore, Md.. Images of the History of Medicine Collection, Order No. A026827. National Library of Medicine

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1901
    Notes: The following hospitals have ambulances for the conveyance of sick persons to the hospital named in the title:The City Hospital, Calvert and Saratoga Sts.
    Johns Hopkins Hospital, Broadway and McElderry St.
    The Maryland General Hospital, Linden Ave. and Madison St.
    The Maryland University Hospital, Greene and Lombard Sts.
    St. Joseph’s Hospital, Caroline and Hoffman Sts.
    The Health Department, City Hall Annex, has a ambulance to convey cases of contagious disease to the Quarantine Hospital.
    The Supervisors of City Charities have contracted with the following hospitals for the conveyance of city patients: Maryland General, Maryland University, City Hospital, St. Joseph’s, and Homeopathic.
    United States Marine Hospital Service has an ambulance which conveys sick sailors to the hospital.Source: Charity Organization Society, Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations of Baltimore together with Legal Suggestions, Etc. Baltimore: 46
  • Dates: 1920
    NotesAmounts appropriated for state-aided institutions, from the Maryland Manual, 1921-1922.

Bibliography

  • The Hospital Bulletin : 1905-1916

Beneficial Society [for prevention of hydrophobia]

Founded: 1814
Location
: Baltimore, MD

Additional Information

  • Dates: 1814/01/26
    Notes: Beneficial Society for prevention of hydrophobia founded by Drs. Henry Wilkins, James Smith, William Donaldson, Samuel Baker, James Page and Elisha DeButts (January 26).
    Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 680

 

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.