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

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I 1 1 I I 1 F ?.- 1 ,WT QT W X..-- 1 - aa, l 'Aja X 'P N lmfmalhlii C4i,i44uA LAJAQAIJMQJQQQB 5 TWSYKN N KX ' 5QXfxf 5' P11131 S4-y' QUE' -' 5, H ' jggmau SXEXLLLLNQSLE N71 . , 1 . xx' - , 1 gy Q A01 1 . B33 1: 121- f Q 1 1 i 1 tgflfeamlfil L f A WK' xi CiS l:QZ.7..'g L? f 115 Jmmmmwm J 22,1218 I CLQK I students, had been an integral part of it. On April 20, 1850, the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County granted a charter to the Homeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania, A large building on Chestnut Street, near the Schuylkill, was leased, a staff was organized, and the hospital was opened in 1872. Vincent L. Bradford, president of the hospital corporation, spoke at its opening: Let, then, all who regard Homeopathy with favor, unite in the support of a charitable establishment in which it shall at once be applied to the removal of pain and sickness, and practically taught to a large succession of learners, who, in after life will diffuse its benefits far and wide. Two years later it was forced to close its doors for want of support, its property and funds being given to the Soldiers' Hospitals during the War of the Rebellion. i . s Ei?-.L-eeeeise s - 4421 L - -ETEQ, ,gfrg-igii l T QJQQT' xg . .. ull' - 5 d?f?1glS'.'i,, r 1 - T Q-it - ' 4 ' Y I! .Il ' '1 , .f-' +m4N.f f-'sn .-e ,ze NEB 'Hn ' ' ' fi Q i l l 1..l1i n Q Q I Q fer:-f ful -f if 1111111 . I1 I . ll' w ill , I ILL. 1' ilitlzf 'aa s' ' I , ll l I l M ' I 1 S pier 1 Img I QE :ll I , gi I - A . N -ae- 1. 1 11111 . - -, -A :I :in 'ii' lilflifsfdi I ' 'Ea 1 1211 l' IM? ' u li Ill Ill Ill' 'll T f lla.. 11 'ii-l lllll ' 1 at A 1 ET W -:J - . Lariat - - es- - M - 1. .1 ia .-11 111111 11 . an Il!,i1'Il T ly - I, Ml hw ii- E W-1 E-3 an 'l II . ::' H 555 W '1 iii fi '91 lull s m, I-1 1, - 522' H' lu' ill . - Ill U l - ' l 'anal' r fi rm , fa rf' A-. :if A f ' ' A ..-Ma ss .: ...-:-W- : 's q -af A-f ' ,,L....g FIRST HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL IN PHILADELPHIA Many efforts to organize a new hospital failed until September 9, 1862, at which tim-3 a womans association for the management of a hospital was formed. These able ladies started a hospital in the rear of the college building, for wounded and sick soldiers. In this institution were treated many who had been discharged uncured from United States Army Hospitals. After the war, this hospital likewise closed its doors. The need for clinical material and increased facilities, led the faculty in 1869, to hold a fair in Horticultural Hall, the proceeds to be used for the construction of a hospital. This netted the unexpectedly large sum of flS17,000, In 1870, the Filbert Street building was purchased, and a five-story brick hospital was erected on the same property. The historian notes some contention between the members of the Hospital Corporation, and the faculty during the early eighteen seventy's, the contention centering around the desire of the hospital corporation to keep that institution separate from the college, and the contending wish of the faculty to erect an amphitheatre to permit of adequate clinical instruction. This condition eventually gave rise to the present corporate title. In 18137 a schism occurred in the college, due to the abolition of the Chair of Special Pathology and Diagnostics, held by Dr. Raue. This movement was instituted Fourteen

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Umm Out the CPast I N A LETTER to Hering in 1833 Hahnemann wrote: Good luck to you in the land of liberty, where you can do all that is good without let or hindrance. Belying these words, in 1848 the National Medical Convention went on record as being deinitely opposed to the teaching and practice of Homeopathy. The stimulus served as the rock upon which should be built the college which we call ours. In the same year in which the above resolution was adopted, Doctors Hering, jeans, and Williamson founded and incorporated the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, with a charter allowing it to confer upon its graduates the degree of Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine. This was the iirst institution of its sort to be founded in the world. The only previous institution for the teaching of homeopathy in this country was the Allentown Academy of the Healing Art, also established by Hering. From records which can be obtained, this was more in the nature of a postfgraduate school for instruction in therapeutics. In the fall of 1848, the college first opened its doors-an event sounding far more impressive and ceremonious than was probably the case. The rear of a building at 229 Arch Street was leased, and in this building one course of lectures was given, The faculty, this first year, numbered nine, and the student body fifteen. Hemocytof meters and sphigomanometers were in all probabilities few in number. Instruction in blood chemistry was said to be shockingly superficial. The following year the college moved to an exfchurch building on Filbert Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth. Additions were made to the faculty, and apparently the student body was increasing proportionately, for on March 2, 1850, at the second commencement of the college in Musical Fund Hall, twenty students were graduated. The building on Filbert Street was destined to be the mecca of homeopathists for some years to come. From the inception of the college, a dispensary, for the practical instruction of 1 F V-- 1 1 V A,-3 X fi 1 - Xi 4 u rx X' gjx iQx!,q,6E5Q 1 .grmmvvm-muh lv .,,,,.,,, D2 X Thirteen V 1 f 'aa:am:.' I wqwg 1 .,.mnnsvi Y K 17 '1 QML1' - Nl X 0' ' ' l' 5 -, ,316 22 xl Q' 1 P r '-V1 . i V 1-, , A, N 6 -,a'ff:a2 LQ .35'I'fv vvvvvvv A v LR il i 'I ' WT ' n 1 T I , f V'

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by Dr. Lippe, who contended that such instrucf tion was contrary to pure homeopathyf' It led to the withdrawal of Dr. Hering and other members of the faculty, and the founding of The Hahnemann Medical ,7 iflfl ff. .'-P In lug . , f - 2' NT Vi ff' ' College of Philadelphia, by Dr. Her' M , ing. For a time, both institutions 'V V continued to exist. The Medif f 2 A ' cal Investigator for August, 1867, I mentions the older institution, and with some sarcasm says that it offers to give a 'thorough medical education' taught by only seven professors. During the session 1868f69 the relations between the two rival colleges were anything but cordial. The rivalry ceased, and union was once more effected in 1869, when, through some highly delicate politics, a controllf ing share of the stock of the old college passed into the hands of Dr. Hering, At this time it was decided that the new name should stand, as a tribute to the founder of homeopathy. Once again, out of strife had come increased strength. As this era drew to its close, Hahnemann piof neered in the adoption of a threefyear course. By 1880, the contention between college and hospital had become acute, and the facilities and equipment of both had become inadequate and obsolete. The machinery for the construction of a new hospital and college was put in motion. Negotiations and more negotiations were the order of the day. The usual number of setbacks occurred, but finally, and largely through generosity of the faculty, in September, 1883, the sum of 3101666.67 was paid for a piece of ground lying between Broad and Fifteenth Streets, above Race Street. Here the work of erecting a new college building was begun in the fall of 1884, with the laying of the cornerstone. Work continued over a period of two years, and in September, 1886, the new college was dedicated. In 1890, largely through the efforts of Dr. A. R. Thomas, who served for twentyfseven years as Professor of Anatomy, and for twenty years as Dean of the College, and to whom college and hospital alike owe an eternal debt of gratitude, the new one hundred and fifty bed hospital was opened. The establishment of these two modern buildings was a milestone in the history of homeopathy, and an anchor which was destined to hold Hahnemann in the front rank of medical schools-or perhaps we would more advisedly say that the men who made these buildings possible were sheet anchors, capable of weathering any vicissitudes. The year that saw the opening of the hospital, also saw the laying of plans for a fourfyear course. Four years later this was put in effect. For forty years the hospital and college contributed their share to the healing of the sick. Improvements were made as improvements came, but eventually the instituf tion once again began to feel the twinges of growing pains. History repeated itself Fifteen F... It f - 1 , a - 1 lat 2 s I i 1 f 1 le 1 gas., P' 'nfl H ,xx , ff fy Xxyggg 1 ? T1pAau.A:. A1 xrvuifixg I Alle! V I W: 415 .1, ,Jwf 1. ililUTTY7WWii?iI I' .'1'f- 1 x-x wax xsxug ,wit 1 'X STU I . ,i , c L- . - 6 - xr. 1 x X Bi ? 1- 51 I lb ,r LE' A duff ' 1.1 Cc Q. UQ ala Q'-'12, INA imc- ,