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Collection Overview
Title: Joshua B. Flint Papers, 1844-1847
Extent: 1.0 Folders
Date Acquired: 04/09/2003
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Letters to Joshua B. Flint cover such diverse topics as a family member who was under consideration as consul to Buenos Aires to a friend writing for medical advice. The documents are agreements involving the Louisville College and the Kentucky School of Medicine. (4 items)
Collection Historical Note
Joshua Barker Flint was born at Cohasset, Massachusetts, on October 13, l801, and went to Harvard College, graduating A. B. in 1820 and M. D. in 1825. He practised in Boston for twelve years, served in the legislature, and from 1832 to 1835 edited the Medical Magazine, there, in conjunction with A. L. Peirson, Elisha Bartlett and A. A. Gould. At the insistence of Dr. Charles Caldwell he was invited to Louisville in 1837, as teacher of surgery in the Louisville Medical Ins titute, later known as the University of Louisville. At the close of his third term he retired but was reinstated in the same chair after the lapse of a few years. In the winter and s pring of 1847 he administered ether for the first time in Kentucky and perhaps in the west. It was for an amputation of the lower limb, the ether being then called "letheon" and administered by the aid of a complicated a apparatus. From 1852 to 1854 Flint was professor of surgery and dean of the Kentucky School of Medicine. His fine scholarship, literary and professional, made itself evident to all appreciative observers. He was not ostentatious in this regard. His sound judgment as a practitioner of surgery and his rare dexterity and coolness as an operator were readily recognized. In the field of operative surgery he was distinguished beyond all other men of his time for his conservatism. In teaching, his style was quiet, eminently and purely didactic. His lectures derived their ornament from correct rhetoric and classical illustrations. He died at Louisville, March 19, 1864.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Found in collections.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1
- Barcode: 31234013928237
- Item 1: ALS J.T. Flint and Samuel F. Train to Dr. Joshua B. Flint, 13 Jul 1846
- In this letter his cousin answers his question about J.C. Flint's qualifications to be appointed consul of Buenos Aires. Samuel Train, the owner of a cargo ship also comments about J.C. Flint. The first part of the letter is also signed by Alfred Peabody.
- Item 2: ALS D.A. Mount to Dr. Flint, 30 Oct 1847
- Mr. Mount, school teacher at LaGrange, KY, is writing about a problem he has with his eyes.
- Item 3: DS Trustees of Louisville College to Sam'l Dickinson, et al., 20 Aug 1844
- The trustees are granting the use of their building and furniture to Sam'l Dickinson, Branch A. Saunders and Tevis Saunders for 5 months so that they can open a Mathematical and Classical School.
- Item 4: Doc. Agreement between Mrs. Helen Morton and the Faculty of the Kentucky School of Medicine, n.d.
- This agreement gives the college the vacant portion of the lot they currently occupy to build a "substantive brick building" for the use of the school.
