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

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STUART McGUIRE, M.D.. LL.D. Prciidtnl Emcrilui Medical Collcce of Virginia 35

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xra LI r. J 1 . ji L. X i AA» K. McCaulev ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLLEGE WiM.iAM T. Sanger, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D Pnsld.nl J. R. McCaulev Sicrilary-Tn-asurir Lewis E. Jarrei r, Ph.G., M.D Su iiii:l,iiJ iil nf Ilospilah H. L. OsTERUi), A.M., Ph.D. . S. F. Bradei., B.MeF.., D.D.S. J. A. Reese, B.S. in Phar. . . Lui.u K. Woi.i , B.S.. R.X. . E. C. L. Mii.LER, M.D. . . . . SfOrlary nf llir M, J it ill Faculty . Sccrclaiy of tlic Drntal Faculty Secretary nf the I ' harmacy Faculty Secretary of the Xursiiiij Faculty Direetincj Librarian Florence McRae Librarian Pauline Williams, M.D Dean nf Jl ' nmen DEANS Lee E. Sutton, Jr., B.S., NLD. . ?L RRv Bear, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. . WoRTLEV F. RuDi), M.A., Pn.B. Frances H. Zeicler. B.S., R.N. . . School of Medicine . Sihonl of Dentistry School of Pharmacy . School of Nursing

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fh A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA INTRODUCTION MEDICINE in Virginia in the early colonial days was not creative nor epoch-making: nor did it altogether reflect continental medicine. Accord- ing to the exigencies of the time, it assumed features which were peculiarly in- digenous. Without cities, hospitals, professional contacts, books, or instruments, the early colonial doctor acquired a resourcefulness, independence of action, courage, and ingenuity bred only in the school of real necessity. Medicine in the 17th cen- tury in Virginia was the same as in the other colonies. It was not a productive but a fallow time out of which some very real contributions flowered during the suc- ceeding centuries. The first Cesarean section and the first oophorectomy in America were performed by a pioneer Virginia doctor. The priority in America for the opjration of cleft palate and club foot, in the use of plaster cast for the treatment of tuberculosis of the spine, and in the use of metallic sutures in vesico-vaginal repair, belongs to Vir- ginia. A Virginian promulgated the theory of evolution before Darwin, another described typhoid fever 113 years before Louis, another advocated the use of steam in the disinfection of infected ships. The first American pharmacopeia, the first autopsy, the first hospital, the first insane asylum on this continent were Virginia achievements. The earliest bill governing medical practice was drawn by the Vir- ginia Assembly; while the first American college to teach comparative anatomy, to institute the ten-months medical course, and to take a stand for adequate premedica! education was the University of Virginia. With these facts in mind, we shall recite briefly the facts in the development of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing, in this state, and the founding and establishment of the Medical College of Virginia. Edilur ' s A o , — rhc X-Rav is Kiatcfullv iiulchtcd to Ilr. Wymlhani H. HIantnn tor liis kind permission to the editorial staff to iim- liis various hooks, and cuts appearing; therein, in the writing of this history.