Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This volume completes the series on the history of medicine in Virginia, prepared under the direction of the Medical Society of Virginia. The two previous volumes covered the period from 1607 to 1700 and from 1700 to 1800, respectively. This volume, which covers the period from 1800 to 1900, is written and published in the same interesting and attractive style that characterized the other volumes. The opening chapters concern the early efforts to organize medical schools. There were no medical schools in Virginia during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Most of the Virginia students found their way to the University of Pennsylvania, from which up to 1816 there had been 4,254 students graduated in medicine from the South, and of these 1,749 were from Virginia. Likewise, many Virginians graduated from Jefferson Medical College during that period. The medical department of the University of Virginia was planned by Thomas