F.B. Coleman, a medical student of the 1830's / William Dosite Postell.
- Postell, William Dosité, 1908-1982
- Date:
- 1945
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: F.B. Coleman, a medical student of the 1830's / William Dosite Postell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BIOGRAPHY, [Reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, July, 1945.] Peper VAN Ae MEDICAL STUDENT OF THE 1830'S WiILLTAM=DOSIT EY POSTELL aaa ee Recently, in examining a collection of old books which had been given to the Library of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine it was found that two of them were of unusual interest. On the fly leaf of the books is the inscription “ F. B. Coleman,” with his place of resi- dence given as Lexington, Kentucky. On further examination, it was found that one was the manuscript lecture notes, and the other a text used by Coleman while a student at the Medical Department of Transylvania University. In the catalogues of this school, Coleman is listed as a student for the sessions 1830-31 and 1831-32. His residence is given as Lexington and his preceptors as Drs. Pindell and Satterwhite. At this time Coleman could not have found a better school in the United States to train him in the art and practice of medicine. The medical department of this uni- versity always had an unusual faculty, and at no time was the school without some nationally known physician as a member of its faculty. The university was heavily endowed for a frontier school of that day, and its equipment and library compared favorably with any of the schools of the Fast. At the time of Coleman’s matriculation, Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785-1870) was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. He had been associated with Transylvania since 1815 and continued this association until 1850. It was not until 1844 that he consented that the chair of anatomy and surgery be separated. At that time he resigned the professor- ship of anatomy to devote himself entirely to surgery. As a surgeon, Dr. Dudley was without an equal in the middle west. His particular hobby was the roller bandage, and in his hands it became an agency equal in importance to the knife. However, it is as a lithotomist that he is best known. Patients came from everywhere to obtain the benefit of his skill. Unfortunately he was a poor writer and it was due only to the urging of his friends that he published a number of his cases. According to his Whe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33632005_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
