Edward Curtis, b. in Providence, R.I., 4 June 1838, was graduated at Harvard in 1859, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1864. He had entered the army as medical cadet on 6 Sept, 1861, became acting assistant surgeon on 5 May, 1863, assistant surgeon in 1864, and was brevetted captain and major on 13 March, 1865. He resigned from the army in 1870, and began practice in New York city. During the later years of his army service he was in charge of the microscopical section of the medical museum, ad was especially engaged in developing the art of photographing through the microscope. He became lecturer on histology in the College of physicians and surgeons in 1870, and in 1873 was given the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, becoming professor emeritus in 1886. He was made assistant surgeon to the New York eye and ear infirmary in 1872, surgeon in 1874, and in 1876 became medical director of the Equitable life assurance society, retiring from active practice. Dr. Curtis has published a "Catalogue of the Microscopical Section of the U.S. Army Medical Museum" (Washington, 1867), and "Manual of General Medicinal Technology" (New York, 1883). (from (from "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2" edited by James Grant Wilson & John Fiske; pub. by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1887)
He was one of fourteen physicians that visited Lincoln's bedside in the Petersen house on the night of April 14, 1865 and along with Dr. Joseph Woodward, conducted an autopsy on President Lincoln in a guest room on the second floor of the White House on Saturday morning, April 15. (Thank you James Henkel)
He was one of fourteen physicians that visited Lincoln's bedside in the Petersen house on the night of April 14, 1865 and along with Dr. Joseph Woodward, conducted an autopsy on President Lincoln in a guest room on the second floor of the White House on Saturday morning, April 15. (Thank you James Henkel)
Edward Curtis, b. in Providence, R.I., 4 June 1838, was graduated at Harvard in 1859, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1864. He had entered the army as medical cadet on 6 Sept, 1861, became acting assistant surgeon on 5 May, 1863, assistant surgeon in 1864, and was brevetted captain and major on 13 March, 1865. He resigned from the army in 1870, and began practice in New York city. During the later years of his army service he was in charge of the microscopical section of the medical museum, ad was especially engaged in developing the art of photographing through the microscope. He became lecturer on histology in the College of physicians and surgeons in 1870, and in 1873 was given the chair of materia medica and therapeutics, becoming professor emeritus in 1886. He was made assistant surgeon to the New York eye and ear infirmary in 1872, surgeon in 1874, and in 1876 became medical director of the Equitable life assurance society, retiring from active practice. Dr. Curtis has published a "Catalogue of the Microscopical Section of the U.S. Army Medical Museum" (Washington, 1867), and "Manual of General Medicinal Technology" (New York, 1883). (from (from "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2" edited by James Grant Wilson & John Fiske; pub. by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1887)
He was one of fourteen physicians that visited Lincoln's bedside in the Petersen house on the night of April 14, 1865 and along with Dr. Joseph Woodward, conducted an autopsy on President Lincoln in a guest room on the second floor of the White House on Saturday morning, April 15. (Thank you James Henkel)
He was one of fourteen physicians that visited Lincoln's bedside in the Petersen house on the night of April 14, 1865 and along with Dr. Joseph Woodward, conducted an autopsy on President Lincoln in a guest room on the second floor of the White House on Saturday morning, April 15. (Thank you James Henkel)
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