Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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within a year at the early age of forty-eight. The extensive Miitter Museum and its liberal endowment under the administration of the College of Physicians, serve to keep his name in the grateful minds of the new generations. ' His place was taken by S. II. Gross, M.D., recently professor in the University of Louisville, a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of the class of 1828, who had made a great reputation as a surgeon, writer and lecturer. The following year Dr. Huston resigned, was made jbzzgksrrar r11zz'r1?n.f and was succeeded by 'l'. IJ. Mitchell, M.D., professor in the Medical School of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. In 1858 the faculty was bereft of one of its most valued members by the death, in harness, of Dr. J. K. Mitchell. Beginning his scientific career as Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin Institute, he published original researches on osmosis, the solvents for India rubber and the tests for arsenic. Later he was the author of important papers on medical topics such as the spinal origin of rheumatism. His most notable contribution was his persistentadvocacy of the view then entirely new, but which is now universally accepted, that malarial fevers, yellow fever and cholera are produced by the presence of low vegetable organisms in the body. On his death the professor- ship of Practice of Medicine was conferred on Samuel H. Dickson, M.D., recently of the University of South Carolina. When the Civil War broke out, as two-fifths of the class usually came from the Southern States, it is not surprising that in two years the roll of students shrank from 630 fthe largest class which up to that time had attended anygmedical college in this countryj, to only 275. The last course of lectures delivered by Dr. C. D. Meigs was in the session of 1861-62. As j1ngfQ'.v.vn1'e1m'rz'ln.v for that year he took the place of the new appointee, Professor Keating, whose health would not permit him to take the chair. In the following year the chair of obstetrics was permanently filled by Dr. Ellerslie Wallace, some time demonstrator of anatomy. For twenty years Dr. Meigs had been eminent among the associates who had given so much lustre to the history of the College. Famous as a scholar, eloquent lecturer and writer on obstetrical subjects, he was at home in the arts of painting and modeling, which he used with great dexterity to illustrate his lec- tures. At his resignation the faculty made a minute which said in part that they ft parted from him with intense and enduring regret. Never could anyone have more closely applied himself to the execution of the responsible duties that have devolved upon him. In 1864 the chair of chemistry lost its occupant, Dr. Franklin Bache, the greatgrandson of Benjamin Franklin, best known as one of the authors of Wood and Bache's United States Dispensatory. His eulogist, Dr. George B. Wood, considered him an extraordinary man, who worked diligently and thus did much for the public good- presenting to the young men an example of all that is morally excellent, lovely and of good report in mankind. He was succeeded by B. Howard Rand, M.D., a practiced lecturer on chemistry in different medical institutions. After eight years ot his connection with the College Dr. Thomas D. Mitchell died in 1865. In his endeavors for the wellfbeing and the instruction of the students he acted conscientiously and harmoniously with his colleagues, who held him in high esteem. His successor in the chair of materia medica was john B. Biddle, M.D., an accomplished lecturer who had won popularity as professor of that branch in the Pennsylvania Medical College. 21

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In the session of 1866'-67 the clinical opportunities were much enlarged by the establishment of a daily clinic, the medical cases being allotted to the skillful consideration of Dr. J. M. DaCosta as lecturer on clinical medicine. In the same year more extended facilities for learning the specialties of medicine and surgery were provided in a summer course. The work of the faculty was supplemented by Drs. W. H. Pancoast, S. W. Gross, J. Aitken Meigs, R. J. Levis and F. F. Maury. In the following year this list was augmented by the names of Drs. J. H. Brinton and W. W. Keen. After filling for twenty-live years the chair of institutes of medicine and for fourteen the oFHce of Dean, in 1868 Dr. Robley Dunglison was compelled to resign by the ill-health which in the next year caused his death. The Trustees accepted his resignation with expressions of regret and elected him r1m'rz7u.v jwW.r.mr. In him was a rare combination of varied culture and vast erudition, made useful by an industry which produced the best medical dictionary of its day, copious contributions to journalism and text-books on physiology, hygiene, matcria medica and the practice of medicine. The honors awarded him at home and abroad gave him a prestige that lent impressiveness to the easy flow and grace of'his discourses. In his thirty years of medical teaching this U Father of American Physiology signed his name to at least live thousand medical diplontas. The chair of institutes was next occupied by J. Aitken Meigs, M.D., a physician and anthropologist of repute. In 1870 the alumni formed an association to promote the interests of the College and medical education. In 1872, Hon. J. R. Burden became President and Dr. J. M. DaCosta received the appointment of Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, made vacant by the demise of Dr. Samuel Henry Dickson. During the fourteen years of Dr. Dickson's connection with the college his courtesy and rennement had made him agreeable to all, while his students reaped the advantage of his wisdom and ripe experi- ence. At this time the Hospital and Dispensary of the College were treating annually about six thousand free patients, with one thousand surgical operations, in quarters wholly inadequate. At the session of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1873, April 9, an act was passed for the endowment ofa new college hospital, by which the sum of one hundred thousand dollars was appropriated to the Trustees of the jefferson Medical College. To the same purpose large private subscriptions were made by the alumni and others. There was much anxious deliberation on the proposition of removal to a more roomy neighborhood. The present central location was considered most convenient to the patients who were the material for the clinics. A spacious lot near by was purchased for the new hospital. At the same time measures were taken to enlarge and improve the college buildings, to add a new front and to equip new laboratories. The Hospital was formally opened September 17, 1877, at which time it had cost for building and furnishing: For two lots of ground, . . . 353,000 oo For building, heating, plumbing, architect, etc., 124,919 83 For outfit, bedding, furniture, etc., 8,000 oo 31851919 83 23