David Wendel Yandell

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]

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]

The progress of medicine: an introductory lecture delivered in the University of Louisville, on the evening of October 4th, 1869

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

Temperament: an address