Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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bitter opposition, poverty and domestic contention, like a child that has been delivered painfully and survived dentition, the eruptive fevers and the dangers of puberty, the school had reached the maturity of its powers. With the faculty of 1841 came the reign of peace, order, and good fortune. There were no changes in the faculty for fifteen years. The conlidence of the public and of the profession was given in full measure to the friendly body of talented men, and as a result the school was prosperous to a degree surpassing any other medical school of its time. Prominent among the features contributing to its use u ness 1 p y, College, Dr. McClellan, whose name is intimately associated with every phase of its early history, was also the chief agent in creating its clinic. Having cultivated a charity practice at his office he easily supplied the infirmary at the college building, and on May 9, 1825, before the first session he performed the first operation in its amphitheatre. When the new building was erected in 1828 a small room in ! front, with an entrance under tl1e staircase, was used by him as a dispensary for his patients. He would draw upon these for illustrating his lectures. From such small beginnings the clinic grew, under the new faculty, to such dimensions that in a single year, 1856, no less than 802 medical and 813 surgical eases were treated, and capital operations of the rarest kind were performed before the class by such adroit Operators as Pancoast and Miitter. The accommodations at the College had been so poor that as late as 1841 even those who had under- f 1 and no ularit must be' ranked its clinic. The virtual founder of the gone serious operations were sent to their homes in carriages. In 1844 two rooms were rented over a shop at the southwest corner of Tenth and Sansom Streets and grave cases were treated here after operations. The anesthetic power of ether was first exhibited in Philadelphia by Dr. Miitter at the clinic, December 23, 1846. About 1849 the surgical clinic used two floors of a building adjoining the College on the north. Later this was remodeled to accommodate fifteen patients. In these narrow quarters the clinic was maintained until the Hospital was built in 1877. To accommodate the larger classes, in 1846 more ground on the north side was purchased for a new entrance and stairway, the lecture rooms were enlarged and the old gable front altered by the erection of a classic portico and pediment. On the death of the President, Rev. Ashbel Green, in 1848, the Rev. C. C. Cuyler served for one year and then was succeeded by Hon. Edward King, Ll..D., who officiated until 1873. The failing health of Prof. Miittcr in 1856 caused him to resign. He was elected fznfcrror cu1crz7z1.r. He had been assistant to Du Puytren in the Paris hospitals, and while abroad had worked for months under other surgeons of equal celebrity. He has the credit of having been the first to introduce into tl1is country the Edinburg quizzing system. He was elected Professor of Surgery at twenty- nine years of age, and at once displayed extraordinary talent as a teacher, eloquent, polished and much beloved by lns classes. He was equally successful as a clinical lecturer and operator. The surgical clinic, by :he associated zeal and efficiency of Miitter and Pancoast, became so famous that the amphitheatre was crowded with practitioners from all parts of the country. Always lacking in physical vigor, though abounding in nervous energy, Dr. Miitter was forced by increasing infirmities to bring his labors to a close. His death ensued I9 '

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