David Wendel Yandell
David Wendel Yandell (1826-1898)[1] was an American physician and soldier of the Civil War in South Carolina.
Early life[]
Yandell was born on September 4, 1826, the eldest child of Lunsford Pitt Yandell and Susan Wendel Yandell.[2][3] His father was one of the founders of the University of Louisville's Medical Institute.[4][3]
He attended Centre College and graduated with an MD from the University of Louisville in 1846.[5] Subsequently, he studied in London and Paris.[4]
He married Frances Jane Crutcher; the couple had four children.[4]
Work[]
Yandell was a distinguished author, teacher, and editor. He wrote several books, including The Microscopist, a Complete Manual on the Use of the Microscope, Curiosities of the Microscope, Physician's Pocket Dose and Prescription Book, and Agreement of Science and Revelation.[1]
During the American Civil War, he served on General Albert Sidney Johnston’s staff as Medical Director of the Army of the West.[6] He served in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga.[4] At Shiloh, he tended to Union as well as Confederate soldiers.[7]
In 1867, he became chair of science and practice of medicine at the University of Louisville and, in 1869, he became chair of clinical surgery.[5]
He was the co-founder and editor of the medical journal The American Practitioner, and was president of the American Medical Association in 1871. He also was president of the American Surgical Association [6][5]
In the last years of his life, he suffered from arteriosclerosis and dementia.[1] He died on May 2, 1898, and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.[4]
Selected works[]
Notes on medical matters and medical men in London and Paris
A clinical lecture on the use of plastic dressing in fractures of lower extremity
Pioneer surgery in Kentucky : a sketch
References[]
- ^ a b c Kelly, Howard; Burrage, Walter (1920). American Medical Biographies. p. 1277. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Yandell, David Wendel". hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu.
- ^ a b "Kentucky by Heart: Family of Louisville doctor David Yandell made mark on Kentucky, and the world | NKyTribune". Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ a b c d e Baird, Nancy Disher (1978). David Wendel Yandell : physician of old Louisville. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-5028-4. OCLC 933516007.
- ^ a b c "David Wendel Yandell, M.D. — School of Medicine University of Louisville". louisville.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
- ^ a b Hume, Edgar Erskine (July 1936). "Early Kentucky Medical Literature". Annals of Medical History. 8 (4): 324–347. ISSN 0743-3131. PMC 7939901. PMID 33943537.
- ^ Shapiro, Norman M. (1997). "The Star of the Collection" (PDF). Huntsville Historical Review. 24: 4.
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