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  Notes: M.D. Of Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 452

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

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• 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

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  Notes: M.D., University of Maryland, 1845; Vaccine Physician, Baltimore, 1847; Delegate to National Convention, 1849.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 453
• Dates: 1847-1850
  Notes: Attending Physician, Baltimore General Dispensary
  Source: Baxley, C. Herbert, ed., A History of the Baltimore General Dispensary Baltimore: Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation, Inc.: 110

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Occupation: druggist, apothecary

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Birth: 1766, Feb.
Death: 1831, Nov. 1
Occupation: doctor

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• Dates: 1766-1831
  Notes: Born in Baltimore County, Md., February, 1766. M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1793 (Inaugural Thesis on “Putrid Ulcerous Sore Throat,” pp. 16); on Committee of Health of Baltimore, 1794; Member of Maryland Senate, 1811. Died in Baltimore County, November 1, 1831.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 458
• Dates: 1789
  Notes: “Dr. Thomas Johnson enters on practice.”
  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: 16
• Dates: 1789
  Notes: Drs. George Buchanam, grandson of George Buchanan, the emigrant; Edward Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Andrew Wiesenthal, Miles Littlejohn and James Wynkoop begin practice at Baltimore.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 664
• Dates: 1798
  Notes: 1798, p. 104
  Source: Baltimore City Archives. A Name Index to the Baltimore City Tax Records, 1798-1808. Baltimore: Baltimore City Archives, 1981. See Ancestry.Com