Description: This illustration depicts the Bacon Building at the Academy of Medicine, which was founded on the northwest corner of Walnut and Sixth Streets in Cincinnati. The illustration appears in "The Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, Centennial Issue," published in 1957. Cincinnati physicians established the Academy of Medicine in 1857. It served primarily as a social and educational club for local physicians. Members met together to share knowledge, to establish standards for medical education, and to debate medical treatments for various illnesses affecting the community. The Academy of Medicine has continually operated since the 1850s. In 2003, the organization provided local residents with a physician's referral service, public lecturers, and health information telephone line. The Academy of Science, which originally only allowed men to join, eventually formed a women's auxiliary. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04205
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Medicine; Other--Health Care; Physicians--19th century--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dr. Nelson Banks Sisson of Gallia County, Ohio with his third wife, Carrie Weather Holt Sisson, ca. 1890-1899. They were married in 1890. He was an abolitionist, supporter of the Republican Party and the temperance movement, and served as surgeon for the 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01056
Subjects: Physicians--Ohio; Other--Family History; Medicine; Civil War
Places: Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: This sketchbook, measuring 12 by 10 inches (30.48 by 25.40 cm) when open, is a sample of the work of Samuel Swan Walker. A native of Butler County, Walker (1806-1848) was an itinerant miniaturist during the late 1830s and 1840s. A trained doctor, he made his living traveling throughout the western and northwestern parts of the state painting portraits of well-known Ohioans and giving art lessons to wealthy patrons. The sketchbook is approximately 35 pages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1518_1534097_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Physicians; Sketchbooks & albums
Places: Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Dr. Albert Cooper. Cooper was a physician in Columbus, Ohio, who practiced through 1925. This photograph, ca. 1910-1919, depicts the doctor wearing a chapeau or bicorne hat, along with medals of the Knights Templar, a fraternal organization. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04092
Subjects: Medicine--History; Physicians--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio); Fraternal organizations
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Diploma from the Medical College of Philadelphia for a doctorate degree in medical arts, issued to Laura M. Fairchild in 1851. The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania was one of the only institutions granting degrees to female medical practitioners during this time. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04115
Subjects: Medicine--History; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Physicians; Women--Employment
Places: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Illustration showing the Medical College of Ohio, 1835. Daniel Drake founded the Medical College of Ohio in 1819 in Cincinnati. Prior to the Medical College's establishment, most doctors learned their vocation through an apprenticeship system. Drake hoped to bring some of the finest doctors in the United States to Cincinnati to provide students with multiple perspectives on the practice of medicine. He also hoped that a diverse faculty would encourage discussion of medical practices and improve patient care. In 1896, the Medical College of Ohio merged with the University of Cincinnati, and later changed its name to the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04141
Subjects: Other--Health Care; Medicine--History; Education--Ohio; Physicians--19th century--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: Exterior photograph of the Dr. Increase Mathews House. Located on 304 Woodlawn Avenue in Zanesville, the Increase Mathews House is Muskingum County's oldest building. Dr. Mathews was an early medical doctor in Zanesville who purchased land near the Muskingum River in 1801 and built a single story sandstone house on this land four years later. He inhabited the home for fifty-one years, and added two stories to this cottage in 1884. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_011_001
Subjects: Zanesville (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Historic buildings--Ohio; Physicians--Ohio
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Miriam Kerruish Stage of Cleveland, Ohio. Stage (1870-1929) was included on the "Ohio State Honor Roll" from the League of Women Voters of Ohio, ca. 1930, which listed prominent Ohio women involved in the suffrage movement. Her brief biography from the Honor Roll reads: "Miriam Kerruish Stage (Mrs. C. W.) graduated from Smith College, became a doctor, and practiced until her marriage. As a member of a family of liberals, she naturally identified herself with all liberal movements in Cleveland, including the suffrage cause. She co-operated with Mrs. Stockwell in the difficult task of interviewing candidates for public office. She was president of the Board of the Woman's Hospital. Mrs. Stage was impatient of discriminations against women in all fields." This photograph comes from the League of Women Voters of Ohio Collection. The League of Women Voters was first formed at the national level in early 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Soon, additional leagues began to form at the state and local level, with the League of Women Voters of Ohio being organized in May 1920 in Columbus. The League was first formed to empower women to use their newfound right to vote, and today its primary purpose remains citizen education. To this goal, it supports voter registration efforts, provides information on candidates and issues, sponsors debates and offers publications on public policy and voter engagement topics. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS354_B10_LWVO_MiriamKerruishStage
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; League of Women Voters of Ohio; Suffragists; Activism; Medicine -- History; Physicians--Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This engraving is an oval portrait of James Henry Salisbury, M.D. (1823-1905), a physician who specialized in the study and treatment of infectious diseases. Salisbury has wavy hair and a substantial beard. The subject's signature is located at the bottom center of the white border. The engraver's name and location are printed underneath the image ("Samuel Sartain, Phila."). Salisbury was born in Scott, New York, on January 12, 1823. He graduated from Albany Medical College in 1850 and practiced his medical specialty in New York and later in Cleveland, Ohio. A pioneer in the germ theory of disease, he became very interested in the relationship between diet and illness. He experimented with diets, using himself and other healthy individuals as subjects. He served as a physician during the American Civil War and treated soldiers suffering from intestinal ailments with a diet of coffee and minced beef patties thereafter known as "Salisbury steak." In 1864 Salisbury moved to Cleveland, where he helped establish the Charity Hospital Medical College. He was the author of many books and articles; among his best-known works is "The Relation of Alimentation and Disease" (1888). Between 1858 and 1861, Salisbury and his older brother, Charles Babock Salisbury, researched the earthworks and mounds of the Ohio Valley. In 1862-63 the brothers presented the American Antiquarian Society with their findings (charts, maps, sketches). James Salisbury died in Dobbs Ferry, New York, on September 23, 1905 and was buried in Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05886
Subjects: Salisbury, James Henry, 1823-1905; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Health Care; Physicians--19th century--Ohio; Nutrition
 

Description: This print shows Samuel Swan Walker sitting in his Cincinnati studio surrounded by paintings and personal belongings. A native of Butler County, Ohio, Samuel Swan Walker (1806-1848) was an itinerant miniaturist during the late 1830s and 1840s. A trained doctor, he made his living traveling throughout the western and northwestern parts of the state painting portraits of well-known Ohioans and giving art lessons to wealthy patrons. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1489_1500534_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Artists; Physicians
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: A nurse and doctor treating an employee with a foot injury at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company hospital, Columbus, Ohio, 1915. Jeffrey operated one of the first industrial infirmaries in the United States. It was staffed with a full-time doctor and nurses. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01339
Subjects: Physicians--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Dr. Arthur K. Lawrence in the rear room of his three-room office at 681 East Long Street in the Williams Building, Columbus, Ohio. He is surrounded by medical equipment. Arthur Kelton Lawrence (1877-1954) was the son of Thomas Lawrence and Martha Hartway Lawrence. Martha escaped from slavery and was taken in by the Kelton family in Columbus, who also employed Thomas. The two were married in 1864. Lawrence served as a hospital steward in the 9th Battalion of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish American War. After the war, Lawrence became a doctor and established a medical practice in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1277_781359_114
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Physicians; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Medicine -- History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)