Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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- D I C - 31 This leads the historian to the sound inception of the 11.-pier. .s If Hahnemann Medical College. Dr. Hering secured the charter and completed the organization. He designed the seal. The ' ,:',gr: P ji '- 7p1,V If -V , lu' , ,liiigvr-1' 5, original college same over to his side and joined hands, There was a short period of residence in a building on Chestnut Street but this soon became inadequate for the uses of the college and arrangements were made for a permanent lguilding. The change was made to 16 and 18 North Tenth treet. Dr. A. R. Thomas was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy and Dr. F. E., Boericke became lecturer on Homeof pathic Therapeutics. Dr. Thomas, in his initial address, spoke of the success of the institute. At the end of this year a dividend of 35135.00 was declared to each of the members of 'T ' ' 1 the faculty. i t ' ':7.f5i5T5'1f5 9 if i i Q-'jf f.,g, 'A ,,F... ,,.,gg V , : ll ' ..'. .- A 0 ' ' LQ' So we have passed from a purpose to a realizationg from seed to a flower. We have followed the history of Hahnemann from the original congress of idealists to the division and later amalgamation of factions resulting in the establishment of the authentic college. The years then hold less important details, though still presenting periods dated by new administrations and new advances. Now our history becomes more detached and less circumspective. In the span from 1870 to 1880 we read of money being raised for a new hospital and are reminded that if events do not always recur in cycles, at least history does repeat itself. The clinical plan was continually extending through the college life and advancing its resources. At this period, the first commencement was held at the Academy of Music, Fiftyffour were graduated. Dr. Constantine Hering died July 23, 1880. He had been very intimately related to the interests of the college. At the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus of Materia Medica. Between the years of 1879 and 1882 the need of a new college was debated. The building on Filbert Street had become inadequate. The hospital had been established in the rear building since 1870. The old building on Cuthbert Street had been repaired and rebuilt for that purpose. It was in a back street. It was built over a sewer and its accommodations were scanty for a hospital. After the formation of committees, and after the initial tasks were completed, efforts were made to find a situation suitable for the erection of both college and hospital buildings. A plot of ground was selected on Broad Street between Race and Vine Streets and extending from Broad Street to Fifteenth Street. The premises on Broad Street were bought from the Cavit Estate for Si70,000, subject to ground rent. On Thursday, November 6, 1884, at 3.00 P. M., the cornerstone was laid. The college was on Broad Street. The Twenty VT .J-.' :.-, , sr' V' an 1 iii. '. .lil , icf, izvs' -212-L 51.15 9 F: .., ffm.. IZ ' , . -YQ ?Agx.A 871 'f':- V fi?-5 lv .1 ,. 3 .V 5,3 I lp, W7 ' 1 1 . if 0.52 lf 1'-Q . 1-.EQ . 1 - 12 -l V lg - E . 4 lj. . lffffg X . 5, . lt f1.A 1 lg? .. if A' , . lf. l . ' 4 J,1 Z7

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4 ra 1 as i -5 .W l l l -i -1 ,I 4 il JZ si .37 'Y l 1 . ,T .1 . j . 1 . 1 1 .f . -1 -Q .2 . ' Ti 4 ft LJ' Q 2 U -'i Ti ' .'.'J si' ff .153 . Hcp.. .Tffgg si -'-3 if-.5 art l .f--fi 4' fl? X' .X-1',?4 R Q 58.53 , 'Q 'I Q W lf. l 1 improvedg a skylight was added: a dispensary was also opened in the rear of the college and connected with this amphitheatre. The students had before this been attending the other hospitals of the city for clinical study. ' There is no note on the effect of the Civil War. Undoubtedly, there were enlistments, rollfcalls, and banded groups. On this score the record is silent. The college now was on a steadier basis. The period between 1865 and 1868 marked reconstruction. With this came the birth of a journal. The Halinemannian Monthly was published for the express purpose of printing lectures and other points of interest occurring in the college. In 1865, Dr. H. N. Guernsey became Dean and the Board of Trustees elected a Faculty. At a meeting in 1865 the Faculty voted to allow ladies to sit in the antefroom to listen to the lectures. This was the first concession made to the fair sex by the college and evidently the last. In 1866 Dr. Hering proposed that Dr. F. E. Boerickc be authorized to prepare a standard Homeopathic Pharma' copoeia. At the same time it was voted that the secretary be a committee to sell at not less than cost the allopathic medical journals in the library. It may be mentioned that they were not sold. The neglect of this motion was in tone with the later acceptance by this school of a dual therapeutic armamentarium. There is record of Boericke and Tafel hav' ing presented to the dispensary copies of the Standard Materia Medica of the day. it 'Wi N11 Zs m? s - I , A t,. 'l 4 is ii lnlMf:,5,'w E 12,-EY W., 1 Xgmxkv- Ei iv l G x --xx 'E :W fx .,. f. -Q 45+ as ,Z - E Tags F, N Nw 9 L j l'Il X 7 ii , f ill V 4 11 i 4, 1 fl V38 iii? is 'five Q' gi fm - .P If in lil, Ilia ' si 1 1 My I Nilfj ' Mi, : - ii 1 -. jar ii'--e -',,4 ll 121125- 3 A crisis now occurred when Dr. Lippe, who controlled most of the stock of the college, declared that the Chair of Pathology and Diagnostics was contrary to pure ii v ' , rm .A . . . j'--if., f.f2,f- if .1,-'1'-1 'L 1: .. Ii1::.- 'f ' , ' ' f'1:.i'5q 1 ---Tex' - 'A ' .':'-1--'.1 ,. 4 4 -.-I . x 1 ZH 'Jer-f-Ligzi -n l 1 Q sfcmfvsuvzm- 251 7, 1 ? x .-:.. lf f 1' T aq if i:'Ei:xig qf2 i3tc -e in ' jle ,AA 'N -y' , , - Homeopathy and should be abolished. Dr. Hering objected to this position and due to the autocratic manner in which Dr. Lippe maintained it, he withdrew from the chair to which he had returned after an absence. Efforts at conciliation were futile. Dr. Hering organized a new college. The original college continued sessions. This was the new Hahnemann Medical College instituting itself as a rival to the old Homeopathic School. Both sides were alternately conciliatory and depreciative. There were no cordial relations between the students of the two rival colleges. Bitter accusations were made from both sides. The time was ripe for the Homeopathic Schools to start cutting their own throats. There had to be a victor and victory. It seemed that the contest was onefsided. The last meeting of the old Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania was held February 27, 1869. The professors split the financial balance. - Nineteen

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'I 1 I.,.1 v .i -1 J 41 wi WNXI, 155' , .e .Aa . ,J C J I, xixu 'f'TLl .Ya .4 1 K F , ,1- ' f 5 3 ' ' ifiifl . 5. 1- , , I Q iX .'x3'.ff . fl xl' gif! 'HSL ring, 115-1- eff-as 2:52 ' 'XE N241 r Jai . I' is . s.i,f F rs jg '. .5 , . . , , ' , . . ,s v, , 19 - MEDIC .sl Governor of Pennsylvania spoke. The ceremonies were conducted by the Masonic Lodge of Pennsylvania. In the cornerstone, among other sundries, were placed the Organon, Philadelphia daily papers, medals in com' ss we-5 t ' -'NN 51 if --fQ4X, memoration of the Centennial, and lists of Alumni. This year X in Z the Alumni was formally organized. Dedication week of 51,1 ryf iqf- the new hospital and college was held during September 20 fifiifwg' .. K 1 .N -- N'--'L 2. 11. to 25, 1886. ,IM 55 ' 1152. 1 I , - 1 14, icxe-' I xxx .I Y Aa Q K ' l M' . 'M ' 177 ' ., , , , f 7 , .' I9 Lfgflbi I j ld,I ii,lfr ' ll fl ll f .4 The historian states: That the students who came to attend lectures in 1886 came to a magnificent building situated on one of the world's finest streets. ,J . .R xnxx... . v t In 1887 a threefyear course was made obligatory. This l i, I fl El? -f, -, 4 was the first step in the gradual extension of the medical curriculum. There is no other comment. Hahnemann was il H1 .q . ...., , V 3' igj?.?? Y'-I l g I 11 I 'i X' U i':..:.P,'U-'- i 253' 'f I L7 -' 22811, '. I ,7 2 i 5-,g rew ,,, U 3-e.,. 1' . . 5-'- . wif- f Z ' , g E the first college in the country to advocate a threefyear study. . ,. W The announcements of 1890 and 1891 later spoke of ' TATU I I the advisability of a fourfyear course and a plan was offered in anticipation of the next meeting of the Faculty to decide this. After the session of 1894 and 1895 the fourfyear course became obligatory. Again Hahnemann took the lead in this scholastic innovation. During the summer of 1894 changes were made in the Faculty. Dr. W. B. Van Lennep became Associate Professor of Surgery. Dr. O. S. Haines became Clinical Professor of Medicine. Dr. H. L. Northrop became Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. Later Dr. Van Lennep became Professor of Surgery. Cn October 1, 1894, there were over seventyffive matriculates. The next year the Senior Class at graduation numbered sixtyffive. The place of Dr. A. R. Thomas, who was ill at this time, was taken by Dr. J. E. James as acting Dean. In 1895 the death of Dr. A. R. Thomas, who had been Dean for twentyfone years and largely responsible for the purchase of the property and building on Broad Street and f the building of the Hahncmann Hospital on Fifteenth Street, ushered in a new era in the history of the Hahnemann Medical College. XX Dr. Thomas was succeeded by Dr. H. L. Northrop in the Chair of Anatomy. Dr. Pemberton Dudley, a devoted apostle of Samuel Halinemann, was elected Dean and served until 1904, when Dr. Charles M. Thomas, the son of Dr. A. R. Thomas, a M brilliant surgeon, was elected Dean. 7 .frf . VU: 41' ?EgA N Wx yl 'hifi 3 I X' NW Ml' He tai X rx 1 Y? riff In 1906 Dr. Herbert L. Northrop was elected Dean and served for four years, being succeeded by Dr. Williaiim B. Van Lennep in 1910, and he by Dr. Willizim A. Pearson in 1914. Twentyone