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

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College History HGOOD luck to you in the land of liberty, where you can do all that is good without let or hindrance. These were the words written to Doctor Constantine Hering by Hahnemann in 1833. P The following year, Doctors Hering, jeans and XVllll8I'I1S0ll founded and incor- porated the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, endowed with the privilege of conferring upon its graduates the degree of Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine. And thus was founded the first medical college of its kind in the world. However, there had been a previous institution at Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the teaching of I-Iomeopathy, also founded by Hering, but this school was more in the nature of a post-graduate course for those already graduates in medicine. In the fall of 1848 the rear of a building at 22Q Arch Street was leased and the doors of the first homeopathic college were opened, a single course of lectures being given. The faculty this first year consisted of nine, while tl1e class boasted of fifteen members. Without a doubt few of tl1e courses we are now burdened with bothered the first yea-1' men in those days. They never heard of Chandler's Organic Chemistry and yet they all became successful practitioners. The next year an old church building on Filbert Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, served as a college. The college faculty was increased as well as the number of students. So that we find at the second commencement, on March 2, 1850, held in the Music Fund Hall, twenty students on the list of graduates. Those who first founded the college had also in mind a dispensary where students would be enabled to put the theories of homeopathy into practice. The Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County granted a charter to tl1e 17

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Semper Fidelis Xvhen all the pregnant preface of the past is told, And historfs valid scroll has been unrolled, lVe'll see outstanding from the common herd of inert Q.-Xs dawn-tipped hilltops o'er a shadowed glenj Those who have served and given of their best- Serving unrecognized perhaps-now dominate the rest. Priest, poet, painter, philosopher, and warrior bold, Of hint who sailed the seven seas. of him who watched the fold. Lowlv and high, alike, their deeds recorded show QAs sunrise gilds a path along the driven snowy . Deeds of the mighty. often in smallest script are told: Deeds of the lowlv, often appear in burnished gold. Prelates hath pride: the poet sings his song and passes ong The painter but reflects what all mav see: philosophers are goneg Kings. courts and crowns last but a day: the warrior's sword is rustg QAs gorgeous foliage, fallen bv winter winds. returns to dustj . No more to prav. to sing, to paint, philosophise, to go to war, To rule, to sail again the seven seas-alas, no more. But what of hint, and of his kind, who humbly watched the fold, And guarded well the lNIaster's lambs, as shepherds did of oldg XVho helped the opening bud of life, who gave surceases from pain Q.-Xs on the parched and suffering earth descends the gentle rainj , Hlho eased the closing eves in death. who labored night and day? XVell may their names head all the rest, theirs was the Master's way. Through all the preface of the past, when history's deeds were written down, By day and night thev labored on, nor sought an earthly crown. And now, when secrets of the heart are bared, when pride and prejudice are done fAs valley mists and shades of night retreat before the risen sunj , Each brother of the healing art is given place, his story told, And here, beside the humblest names, read Semper Fidelis writ in words of gold. 16

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sickness, anc prac lC21 I' . g Homeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania o11 April 20, 1850. In 1852 a staff was Organized, a large building o11 Chestnut Street near the Schuylkill was leased and a lllhlllllll became 11ot a dream but an actuality. Vincent L. Bradford vv is elected president of the hospital board, and at its opening spoke: Let, then 'ill those who regard l1o111eopatl1y witl1 favor unite in the support of a cl1ar1t1ble establislnnent in which it shall at once be applied to the removal of pain ind l t' llv tauvht to a large succession of learners who in aftel clilluse its benefits far and wide. Two years later, however. tl1e hospital life will was forced to close its doors for want of support, its property and funds being given to the Soldiers' Hospitals during tl1e Civil XVar. Manx ellorts to organize a new hospital proved futile until on September 9, 1862, a XVO1llZlI1'S association for tl1e nianagenrent of a hospital was forn1ed. These ladies started a hospital in the rear of tl1e college building for wounded and sick fm C age Tee- .--fvebf, if :ff . g ': - Vi- 1-2 fZifLi?g?35'ie-Sli?-'e'yi'? '' 'l' LHP' 'I-. -.1 su ' Z fl f'M1aea.11f. ff Lai.-dgigsgT5?: ..- 5511ni-1' my jst x in -rf -24 . m l .1 X 1 '---4-.11f1e-was-. 11 1' ' EE 1P 'l E? 1r '1-'ll- w lll in EE i nu la il - .- 1 1. ll il T il ' lllllllllll Le' T 1 Q' 13 ll 111111111 ff 1 - ' E l 1 : 'rl F 'F l'1 l 1: -- T 11 1 ll all ill 551- if ' - si -- 1. 1 11 M 'V A1 1 R N- ' 1 . ll 1 E .1l1i 1-if M ll 1 1, :1 1'glf'L,L,1 . -f- 1 as I 2 ' -I 1' 'lv 2 .1 1 11 ... ll' , ll 1 ' Q 531' ul 11 -1 I Lau: - 11 ' sc. 1111ll11+1e ...s Ls- 1 im - ' 'f ' 1 111 11 1 1 1 - '1' C- iiillli 1 Q Q tm 1 -1 Q 1 1 li, lillllil l i 'i 1' ' ll ll ll El! 1. i I ll lu 11 li 1-Hill ll I ll Ill U' ' 'll 1 ll .45 .il 1 1 111111111 ,sa ...Q 1 L 1 1 IL we-- ' liil ' l1,1l1'f S. :alll 1, ..1 ll 1 it if sfefi i nl Il 'Il ' lm I ml JU 1 U 1. v,-T ,I ig 11 :.1,,,, 1. .. I, lu 5 . 1111 , , UU i f - ll-l ', 5 - ug p ln III' 1 1 ll S3 ji -Jlg ' 11 '1-- 1 ' -,:f '-S 1, 1 ---Lf.. ?'T.--- 5:-2,541-.iff f , q ugmn2 glial-.. ,Al llil ,, ,.11 'G-' Y7:.f-- 4- ,i,cJ', qW,,,,B.,1q1-1 'if-ff 'f ' ff soldiers. To this institution canre inanv who had been discharved uncurecl ronr . D I.'nited States Arnry Hospitals. But after tl1e war this hospital was also forced to close its doors. 1 The need for clinical material and increased facilities became 1nore and more apparent in order to keep the college open. And so i11 1869 the faculty held a fair in the Horticultural l-lall, the proceeds to be used for the construction of a hospital. Seventeen thousand dollars was raised at this ti111e. ln 18711 a property on Filbert Street was purchased and a hve-story brick hos- pital was erected on this property. During the early eigl1tee11 seventies we note some contention between rneinbers of the Hospital Corporation and the faculty. lVe hnd tl1e Hospital Corporation at this time endeavoring to keep tl1at institu- tion separate from the college. and the contending wish of tl1e faculty to erect an anrphitheatre to pernrit of adequate clinical instruction. This condition gave way eventually to the present corporate title. 18