Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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john H. Brinton, M. D., L L. D. Late Emeritus Professor of Practice cf Surgery and Clinical Surgery 28

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Ross V. Patterson, M. D Sub-Dean 27

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John H. Brinton, M. D., L. L. D. R. BRINTON was born in Philadelphia, May 21, 1832, springing from one of the N R., fp oldest and most prominent families of Colonial days. .5 F. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and graduated with the degree S of Bachelor of Arts in 1850. He matriculated at Jefferson, and in 1852 received his medical degree. The year following graduation was spent abroad, in further study at the great clinics in Paris and Vienna. Returning, Dr. Brinton entered upon general practice, and became associated with Professors Agnew and H. H Smith, in teaching operative surgery at the old anatomical buildings on College Avenue. On Prof. Smith's withdrawal, Dr. Brinton took up his work. At the outbreak of the Civil Wal', Dr Brinton entered the army medical service, and was made a Brigade Surgeon of Volunteers. ln this capacity he served with General Grant at the battle of Belmont, Missouri. Later he accompanied Grant in the campaign of 1862, on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, which resulted in the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, ofNashville, and during which the battle of Shiloh was fought. In 1862 Dr. Brinton was ordered to Washington to prepare the Surgical History of the Rebel- lion, and later to found the Army Medical Museum. After two years ofwork along these lines and other special duty, he was sent to Louisville and assigned to the office of Medical Director under General Rosecrans, and served with him through the Missouri campaign. Later he served as superin- tendent and director of general hospitals at Nashville, Tenn., and afterward as Acting Medical Director of the Army of the Cumberland. A ' At the close ofthe war Dr. Brinton returned to Philadelphia and resumed the practice of his pro- fession. Shortly afterward he was appointed lecturer on operative surgery in the summer course at Jefferson, and later, he was elected one of the surgeons to the Philadelphia Hospital, being associated with such men as Drs. Wm. Pancoast,-F. F. Maury, S. W. Gross and Harrison Allen. He remained in this position until 1882, when he resigned to take the chair of Practice of Surgery and Clinical Sur- 29