Finding Aid to Medical Education: An Address

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MEDICAL EDUCATION : AN ADDRESS BY CHARLES MINOR BLACKFORD, JR.,
M.D. – 1891
In his address, Dr. Blackford gives a history of medical education from Hippocrates,
Aristotle, and Galen, through the disappearance of medical education during the middle ages to
the rediscovery of medical knowledge through university medical schools.
“Still the nineteenth
century has accomplished much and has made vast strides in developing and increasing our
knowledge of man’s physical nature and structure.” (pages 18-19)
CHARLES MINOR BLACKFORD, JR. (1865-1924)
Charles Minor Blackford, Jr., son of Charles Minor Blackford, Sr., and Susah Leigh
Colston, was born 5 September 1865, in Lynchburg, Virginia. A graduate of the University of
Virginia and of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, he also studied medicine in
London, Vienna, and Paris. He taught in a medical school in Atlanta, Georgia. He wrote
numerous articles for medical magazines, as well as historical articles for newspapers. He also
published Annals of the Lynchburg Home Guard, a history of a local military unit. He married
Julia Winifred Sears, daughter of William Goff Sears and Stella Bigelow, on 22 September 1897
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He died 6 November 1924 at his home in Staunton, Virginia.

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