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

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lOOLS 1817 • I9§ HIS SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY WAS INSATIABLE . . . CHARLES EDWARD BROWX-SEQUARD was born In Port Louis, Mauritius, on April 8. 18)7. His father. EcUvard Brown, was an American but young Charles affixed his French mother ' s maiden name, Sequard, after her death. His graduation thesis at the University of Paris on Researches and E.xperiments on the Physiology of the Spinal Cord gave an early indication of his later attainments in physiology and research but gave no inUling of the restless nature which never permitted him to remain in any of his many teaching appointments. Political difficulties pre- cipitated his departure from France in 1852 and he taught and practiced in New York for a year. He returned to France only to leave for Mauritius during a cholera epidemic on that island. He next appeared at the Medical College of Virginia where he taught the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence during the session 1855-56. Here he did much of the work on the central and sympathetic nervous s stem and the glands of internal secretion which was later to make his name forever famous. Space does not permit a detailed account of subsequent professorships in Paris, London, Boston, again Paris, New York, again London, again Paris, and finally Geneva. On April 1, 1894, his wanderings were brought to an end following a cerebral accident in his beloved Paris.

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William T. Sanger, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D. NEVER COMPLETE A VITAL institution is never finishetl; that might he called its glory. Some better service, some new avenue of usefulness, or some new physical necessity constantly recurs. Whenever the Medical College of Virginia is thought to be complete, that will be an unhappy day. There must always be new needs to be met. Every student as well as every member of the faculty can play a part in meeting these needs. If each one of us in the next few years should interest someone sufficiently to make provision in his will for the College, and if succeeding generations of students should also accept this simple yet challenging responsibility, the institution would have ample resources for continued development. Whether or not this is done is chiefly a matter of interest and of consequent persistence and tact. To see one ' s College continue to flower in usefulness and prestige is truly reward enough; by some curious compensatory process, moreover, the prestige of alma mater adds to the prestige of her graduates. Conversely, the prestige of alumni sustains and further builds the prestige of alma mater. {17}.