Price: $75.00
SKU: 54983
PUBLISHER: Published in Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion.
MEDIUM: Wood engraving, modern handcoloring,
DATE: 1856.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 3 7/8 x 6" 98 x 150 mm).
DESCRIPTION: Joseph Nash McDowell (1805-1868) rose to prominence as a leading physician west of the Mississippi during the 1840s, but his legacy is often overshadowed by his controversial methods, notably his unauthorized exhumation of corpses for anatomical study. Upon relocating to St. Louis in 1839, McDowell quickly garnered infamy for his grave-digging activities, earning him the moniker "Mad Doctor McDowell." His unorthodox practices, which included preserving his daughter Amanda's body in alcohol, fueled rumors and scandal. Despite these controversies, McDowell played a significant role in medical education, mandating human dissections for his students. During the Civil War, he served as Surgeon General of the Confederate Army of the West. Following the conflict, McDowell returned to find his medical school repurposed as a Union prison, where rumors of hauntings persisted. This image, a 19th-century perspective captured as a wood engraving and colorized to highlight the details, depicts the school he founded in St. Louis.
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CONDITION: Good condition.
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