Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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I9I7 (5?.: THE-: RAy i9 l n Medical College of Virginia University College of Medicine

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I9I7 (g ' .:: ? THE ' RAy i9 I9I7 Dr. Stuart McGuire, Dean.

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I9I7 = i THE- H RAY m V)VI The School in the Past. |T a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Hampden-Sidney Col- lege, December i, 1837, a resolution was offered to the Board to establish a medical department in the city of Richmond. Following are some of the regulations adopted for the management of this department: . . . . shall for the present consist of six professors, viz., a pro- fessor of Anatomy and Physiology, of Theory and Practice of Medicine, of Surgery, of Therapeutics and Materia Medica, of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, of Chemistry and Pharmacy The lectures .... commence on the first Monday of November of each year and continue until the last week of March ensuing . . . . The president and trustees of Hampden-Sidney College shall confer upon the candidates (so recommended) a diploma with the title of Doctor of Medi- cine with the seal of the college attached. The matriculates for i838- ' 39 were 46 in number — 39 from Virginia and 7 from other States. Quoting from Mordecai ' s History of Richmond, . . . . The Union Hotel .... was converted into a medical school and hospital. Limbs, instead of cutting capers were cut in pieces in the ball-room ; potions were mixed instead of punches ; poultices supplanted pudding, and Seidlitz water, champagne. February 25, 1854, a charter of the Medical College of Virginia was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia, and on March 27, 1854, Dr. Tucker was elected dean of the faculty. In i859- ' 6o, by reason of the bitter sectional feeling. Southern students in the school at Philadelphia, under the leadership of Dr. Hunter McGuire, left, and many of them matriculated in the college here. On March i, i860, an act was passed appropriating $30,000 to the Medical College of Virginia, and the faculty wisely gave up the property to the State. During the war the Medical College of Virginia was the only medical school in the South that did not close its doors, and by holding two sessions each year was able to supply to the army the necessary staff of surgeons.