Chisolm, John Julian

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    Full name
    John Julian Chisolm
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    3
    Family
    Robert Trail Chisolm (father), Harriett Emily Schutt Chisolm (mother), Mary Edings Chisolm (first wife, 1852), Mary Elizabeth Steele Chisolm (second wife, 1894)
    Education
    University of South Carolina
    Occupation
    Military
    Educator
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Julian John Chisolm (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Chisolm made many contributions to medicine and surgery in his teaching, his more than 100 professional publications, his invention, and his founding of institutions. Besides his Civil War and ophthalmic writings, he is especially noted for his advocacy of early ambulation of patients after cataract surgery, for being one of the first ophthalmologists to perform surgery for cataract on an outpatient basis, and for his early practice of antisepsis in eye surgery. He was a leader in the development of ophthalmology as a surgical specialty during the nineteenth century, as was evidenced by his publications on the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders and his selection as the chairman of the Section of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat of the American Medical Association in 1884.
    Terry Hambrecht, "Chisolm, Julian John," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/12/12-00157.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Chisolm, John Julian," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5387.