September 2025 Meeting Summary

At our dinner meeting on September 17th, Round Table member Dr. David Meyers gave an outstanding program on Civil War medicine. Attendance at the dinner meeting was 52.

Dr. Meyers is a retired professor of cardiology and preventive medicine at the KU School of Medicine. He has been interested in Civil War history since childhood. He spent two years in Richmond VA studying the war (and cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia).

Dr. Meyers has published 143 medical research papers, several medical book chapters, a book reviewing 134 Kansas City restaurants (published in 2003 - most have since closed), and is finishing a book on the 17 military hospitals in St. Louis during the Civil War (with help from Dick Titterington).

He joined the Omaha Civil War Round Table in 1981 and the Kansas City CWRT in 1995 (with a ten-year hiatus with the St. Louis CWRT). He has been a medical
re-enactor since 1990 - innocently declining the lead part in the second scene of the movie "Dances with Wolves" to his regret. Dr. Meyers was a founding member of the Society of Civil War Surgeons and has lectured widely on Civil War Medicine.