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

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. I- ' 1. r - fvfava ' 3 as XC X I I , MLQMLAIMTTIY M i WWW! 'X .vu 7 i X:.la gi. QI L-1 -7- V M . wi-'wmv' wif 'N ,mann W.RS S Xilfgq X so 1 A . ., a fu 1i l'i,Ti.il,f a Y. fi 11,5 I1 xcfmcffsffrfmk xiiywisx? -,120 VM RSSUVD? Fila i QDr,, Clhyzfus CB., fleietzmver INETYfONE years ago, Daddy first 1 appeared on the scene, in Gettysburg, Pennf sylvania. Undoubtedly no one thought of calling h i m Daddy at that time. There he remained during the Civil , NVar days, until the day be' fore the battle of Gettysburg, when he left unceremoniously by flagging a train, when the capture of the town by the johnny Rebs seemed immif nent. His undergraduate days were spent at Pennsylvania College fnow Gettysburg Col' legej, from which institution he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1862. A book on anatomy and physiology fell into his hands sometime during this period, which book served as the guidepost of his life work. With this in mind he entered the Penn Medical Uni' J A oi m y ' 1 f 17 Al 8 f IU , fr 224,045 ' versity, a medical college in Philadelphia. While a student theme, he came in contact with Dr. Amos Russell Thomas, who held the chair of anatomy in that institution from 1896 to 1866. Daddy received his M.D. in 1865, but was listed as an instructor in the College from 1864 to 1869, so his association with Dr. Thomas was probably both that of student and fellow teacher. Constantly impelled by a desire to know more of the human body, in 1865 he took a course in anatomy from Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, who at that time conducted a private school of anatomy, and who was said to be able to obtain bodies when medical schools were bodyless. From time to time in the next several years, Dr. Weaver worked under Dr. Agnew's direction. When an instructorship in anatomy at Hahnef mann was offered to Dr. Weaver, Agnew urged him to take it, speaking of it as the chance of a lifetime. In the years of 1867f68 and 186869, the man who was to devote so many years of his life to the instruction oil others, sat on the benches for the last time at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and the jefferson Medical School, respectively. His studies in these institutions were entirely along anatomical lines. Upon the severance of his connections with the Penn Medical University, Dr. Thomas had become Professor of Anatomy at Hahnemann. In 1870 Dr. Weaver Eighteen

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lf enivozi ISTURIES are dull, drab things at best- merely notations of successions of facts, all differing in a way, and yet all very similar. Histories of great conflicts, of dashing, masterful generalship, of feats of great valor, and great loyalty to a cause, alone have the power to appeal to others than the true scholar and bibliophile. Yet, if we would learn, but two sources of learning are open to us-history and our own experience. If the life of man were more than a flash of light in the infinity of time and space, we might well cast aside all knowledge save that which we accumuf late in the school of our own lives. Then indeed could we build on solid foundations. To say that such a course is impossible is but to point out the obvious. To advance, we must build upon the lessonsethe mistakes and accomplishments, if you will-which history holds in its strongfbox. Upon that, if we are sufficiently wise, and live suffif ciently long, we may place an upright or two cast in the cauldron of our own expef rience. If any lesson can be learned in the foregoing pages, it is that of loyalty to a cause and submergence of self. We are not trying to preach-the great majority of sermons which have come our way have served to irritate us mightily-but we are doing our best to bring a realization to those of us who go out this year from 'this institution, and to any others who have need of such realization--that Hahnemann has existed and progressed because men had vision-and that Hahnemann can only continue to exist and progress through an increasing and greater vision in every man who proudly holds her diploma. Much has been said of Homeopathy in the preceding pages. It has served as the rallying cry and the standard about which our school has risen. We would in no sense minimize or decry that standard, but even as we pause to recognize its merits, we would remember that we are primarily members of a profession, which, with all its faults and blindnesses, has ever struggled onward toward light and truth, and that we are secondarily members of a subfdivision of that profession. We will remember that even as laboratories have been created to establish the rationale of our method of the treatment of disease, we must create more laboratories which will study the cause and prevention of disease. We will remember that the Great Physician is, after all, Nature, and that our efforts must ever be to aid, and never to interfere with that greatest of all consultants. We will, above all, avoid dogmatism in any respect. In such a way we may prove ourselves worthy successors of the founders. With such a spirit, no vision of the future can be too sanguine. Seventeen l V--- U . I I r 1 fi-Q I A i l l 5 r l 4 1 J --w ll. A ,f ,Alai X X, ,J ,. 59 ' .4 xx xx lx. - M A144 V W- - X gy' Nhf, fx V ' awww-fwfwfsmv:rfu.n ' 5' iv' I r si l X Q L, . ' D - fir Q if -, , , x . 48+ N ' D xy X 3 4 , PW lf L K , K X 1 61 Q .11 X. ggggfavfif i vvvvvv Ju A , . s i ' r E 'gi .

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Joined him in the capacity of Demonstrator of Anatomy. ln 1879 he was made l.ccturer on Surgical Anatomy. During this period, and the years which followed, he cstahlished the Museum. dissecting and preserving most of its speci- mens with his own hands. It seems almost in the realm ol the incredihle that one man could do the tremendour amount of work which he did. and at the same time lill the role of everfpatient teacher, counselor and friend. In the spring and summer of 1888 Harriet came into heing. Never in the history of anatomy or of medicine has such a task heen accomplished, Only inlinite knowledge, skill, and patience allowed of its completion, If those who read would know more of that task, let them consult l'1arrietls guarf dian. In Georges eyes each nerve holds a separate memory of the man who separated its tender lihrils from its native hed. No sainted relic was ever more holy to a devout pilgrim than are those white hranches to him. As a token of appreciation for the great work he had d o n e . Hahnemann gave Daddy an honorary 1VI.D. in 1891. Six years later, folf the death of Dr. Thomas, honor was mutually lowing hestowed when he hecame Professor of Anatomy. From that time until seven years ago Daddy gave of himself to Hahnemann. DLlI ing that time he was the most heloved figure on the faculty e last one to whom a newlvehatched gradua Sald !f'0dlW9--fl1C first one whom a long ahsent alumnus wished to see. His railing health has deprived us ol. the intimate friendship of this grand old man. Those ol us who know him have appreciated the extent of that loss. Nzuetecn