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From: "Bill Schwarz" <>
Subject: Re: [OHBUTLER-L] Docs in training, 1800s
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:42:49 -0500

Nancy is correct. There was a Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College around the turn of the century (20th) until at least 1914, when my grandfather graduated from it.

Bill Schwarz

>>> <> 10/29/98 09:49PM >>>
> By the way do you have anyidea where someone would
> have got to be a doctor back then?

I think doctors-to-be studied one-on-one with other physicians, a lot
like current medical students do preceptorships with practicing docs.
But there were also medical schools back east, and wasn't there one in
Cincinnati?

One of my mom's relatives was a doctor, but in the Civil War he was
injured when a mule rolled over on him. When he came back to Butler
County, his wife became a doctor to work with him. Without looking
it up, I think she went to an eclectic school in Cincy for her training, if
this makes any sense. I believe she treated women patients, probably
OB and pediatrics. Mom knew her as an old woman, and called her
"Grandma Doctor" although she was probably some sort of great aunt.

Nancy Sween

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