Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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mandamus obtained from court, as the charter of the college at Canonsburg had not yet been amended so as to enable it to confer the medical degree. G ' In tl1e summer of 1826 Dr. W. P. C. Barton was appointed to a new chair of materia n1edica. Litigation and discord between two of the professors affected unfavorably tl1e class of 1826-27. The old theatre building proving entirely inadequate, a member of the Board of Trustees, Rev. Ezra Styles Ely, D. D., offered to advance tl1e money to erect a suitable building, the College to take a lease upon it for five years. This building was constructed upon a lot situated on Tenth Street, between what are now called Sansom and Moravian Streets. By August, 1828, it was ready for the tenant, which has been in continuous possession ever since. The chair of midwifery having been declared vacant, Dr. john Barnes was appointed lecturer ffm fL'l1yP0l'6 for one session, and in rtpril, 1827, l1e was elected Professor. At the opening of the session of 1827-28, Dr. N. R. Smith resigned tl1e chair of anatomy. The juncture was critical, but Dr. George McClellan undertook the course on anatomy as well as his own on surgery. The Trustees being dissatisfied with the teaching in midwifery, on june 19, 1828, all the chairs were vacated and on the 26th of the same montl1 the faculty was reconstructed as follows: Surgery, George McClellan, D.D. 5 Medicine, john Eberle, M.D. 3 Materia Medica, W. P. C. Barton, M.D. 3 Institutes, B. Rush Rhees, M.D. 3 Chemistry, jacob Green, M.D. As the chairs of midwifery and anatomy were vacant, Dr. Eberle took the extra work in n1idwifcry, and anatomy was taugl1t by Dr. George McClellan, assisted by the demonstrator, Dr. Samuel McClellan. In january, 1830, Dr. George McClellan was relieved of anatomical teaching by tl1e appointment of his brother, Dr. Samuel McClellan, to the chair. In the hope of securing a more satisfactory assignment of labors in 1830, Dr. Barton having resigned, Dr. 'Eberle was transferred to the cl1air of materia medica, while undertaking to teach midwifery, and Dr. Daniel Drake, of Cincinnati, was appointed to the cl1air of practice of medicine. The session of I83O-SI opened with every professorship occupied by a man of proved ability as a writer and teacher. At the end of the session a disaster was experienced in tl1e resignation of two of the most eminent profes- sors, Daniel Drake and john Eberle. This loss and other changes made in the personnel from various causes had an unfortunate influence Upon the prosperity of the institution. For the session of 1831-32 Dr. Usher Parsons, of Providence, R. I., held the chair ot midwifery, Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison of anatomy, vice Dr. Samuel McClellan resigned. At theiend of the session Dr. Parsons resigned and Dr. Samuel McClellan was appointed professor of n1idwifery, medical jurisprudence and diseases of women and children. By 1834 Dr. john Revere had been appointed professor of medicine and a mutually acceptable organization was effected, which persisted for six prosperous Years. The teaching corps was much strengtl1ened by the election of Dr. Robley Dunglison to the chair of institutes in June, 1836. In 1838 the larger classes called for more commodious quarters, and it was decided that the old building must be altered and enlarged. To do tl1is it was desirable that the title to tl1e property, hitherto vested in Rev. E. S. Ely, should be transferred to the Board of Trustees. As these Trustees in Philadelphia were subordinate to the parent Board and could hold property in tl1eir name only, a 11ecessity arose for a distinct charter, wl1ich would enable the Philadelphia Trustees to hold and modify tl1e medical college property as a separate institution. . I5

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l l l l l l l i l i l 1 l 1 1 At the session of the Legislature held in the Spring of 1838, a charter was obtained creating The jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, an independent corporation H with the same powers and restrictions as the University of Pennsylvania, and the Trustees then holding office were reappointed with ff power to increase their number to fifteen, and to be sclfclective. At the meeting which accepted the new charter the Board of Trustees closed the old connection very gracefully by passing unanimously the following resolution : !Feso!zfm', That the President be directed to communicate to the mother Board at Canonsburg, that in accepting the charter which separates them from the jefferson College at Canonsburg, the additional Trustees are influenced by the conviction that such a separation is for the mutual benefit and convenience of both bodies, and desired it for no other reason 3 and that this Board will retain a grateful sense of the kind and fostering care ever exhibited towards them by the parent institution, and will in their new capacity be always ready to acknowledge their past obligations and to exchange, in every way in their power, kind offices with Jefferson College at Canonsburgf' The Trustees executed a lease on the College premises for twenty years, which gave them the privilege of paying off the principal at any time before the lease expired. In time they came into full ownership of the property, having made from time to time the alterations called for by the growth of the school. The happy outlook was soon beclouded by the personal difficulties of the faculty. These dissensions became so urgent that on the roth of june, 1839, the Trustees dissolved the faculty, and organized another out of the more congenial members of the previous body, with some new appointments. The name of Dr. George McClellan does not appear in the reorganized faculty. In his place was put Dr. joseph Pancoast, and Dr. R, M. Huston replaced Dr. Samuel McClellan. As Dr. George McClellan is conceded to have been the master spirit in founding the school, it is proper in this history to give some account of his career. He had shown a marked aptitude for surgery before he studied medicine. In ten years after beginning practice he was among the foremost surgeons of the world, showing in his operations consummate skill joined to an alertness of mind which made him ready for the most trying emergency. His lectures evinced enthusiasm, clearness and thoroughness, His methods were characterized by brilliancy and dash rather than by cool calculation. It was very hard for him to submit to author'ty or to control the impulses of his ardent temperament. . In 184r, new difficulties came to a crisis, and on the 2d of April, all the chairs were again vacated, and the faculty reconstituted as follows: Robley Dunglison, M.D., Institutes, J. K. Mitchell, M.D., Practice of Medicine, joseph Pancoast, M.D., Anatomy, R. M. Huston, M. D., Materia Medicag T. D. Miitter, M.D., Surgery, Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Obstetrics, Franklin Uache, M. D., Chemistry, succeeding to the chair on the death of Dr. jacob Green. At last was brought together a group of teachers of approved merit who would work in harmony. Under their ftfgflllllt' the College throve apace. During the first seventeen years there had been many disagreements ending in withdrawals, some of them involuntary. In that time there had been eight incumbents to the chair of midwifery. At different times vacan- cies had been filled for short periods by men of unusual ability. Their stay was so short as to prefigure the early decline which seemed to be the fate of an institution whose history was marked by such extraordinary vicissitudes, due in the main to internal discords. Having lived through I7