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American Medical College of St. Louis
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- American Medical College (Saint Louis, MO)
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- American Medical College
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Dates of existence
1873-1911
History
American Medical College was organized in 1873. Its backers were promoters of “eclecticism,” which was an approach to therapeutics that emphasized herbal remedies. The first class graduated in 1874, when instruction was offered at 7th and Olive Streets. The college admitted two classes each subsequent year up to 1883, thereafter a single class annually but with a longer term of instruction. From 1878 until 1890 the institution was located at 310 North 11th Street in St. Louis, and then moved to 407 S. Jefferson Avenue. Some time around 1900 the faculty staffed what was billed as “the only eclectic hospital in the west,” Metropolitan Hospital, but this facility evidently did not remain open long. Flexner graded American along with several other Missouri medical schools as “utterly wretched” following his visit in 1909. In 1910 the college abandoned eclecticism and formally embraced “regular” medicine. The college purchased a new building and also opened a second hospital and a dispensary on Pine Street at Theresa Avenue. Again the clinical facilities were short-lived. In 1911 American merged with nearby Barnes University. The combined institution was renamed National University in 1912.
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American Medical College of St. Louis
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created December 16, 2019 10:40 AM
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
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- American Medical Journal was a medical journal published by the American Medical College of St. Louis from 1873-1916. The American Medical Journal
contains copies of most Announcements of the American Medical College of St. Louis. URL HathiTrust digital copy: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000543525?type%5B%5D=all&lookfor%5B%5D=American%20Medical%20J - Annual announcement, 1881-1882. PC059-S01-B01-F02 Folder, Part of American Medical College, Barnes Medical College, and National University of Arts and Sciences Collection. URL https://wustl.app.box.com/file/272588293768 (cover: Annual announcement of the American Medical College of St. Louis; page 3: Annual announcement for the winter and spring session of 1881 and 1882 )
- . PC059-S01-B01-F04b Folder, Part of American Medical College, Barnes Medical College, and National University of Arts and Sciences Collection. URL https://wustl.app.box.com/file/272588789244 (cover: Thirty-sixth Annual announcement of the American Medical College of St. Louis, 407 Jefferson Avenue, Session 1908-1909; page 3: Annual announcement for the