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

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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.

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

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I9I7 ( THg ErRAy jg) 191F Since that period a number of earnest workers gave their best years and efforts to the upbuilding of the college, and to keep it abreast ith the rapid advance in modern work and scientific teaching. In i897- ' g8 a division of the college was made into three departments — Aledi- cine, Dentistrj ' , and Pharmacy. The University College of Medicine was founded in 1893 by a number of Richmond physcians, under the leadership of Dr. Hunter McGuire, and grew rapidly, attaining a high position among medical colleges. On January 6, 19 10, the main college building was completely destroyed by fire, but the loyalty and determina- tion displayed by the faculty, trustees and students won the sympathy and admiration of the citizens of Richmond, who contributed more than $100,000 for a new building. A new building with every facility for the most advanced methods in medical education was formally opened May 22, 1912. Everything had been provided for the convenience of the student and for thoroughness and efficiency in teaching. The new Medical College of Virginia continues the work of the University College of Medicine and the Medical College of Virginia, which effected a con- solidation in 191 3. And thus we might well be proud of our Alma ] Iater, with its long roll of dis- tinguished teachers and alumni, challenging comparison with other centres of medical instruction, and recognized throughout the length and breadth of our land in priinis. 12