Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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