Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE CLINIC NINETEEN-SIXTEEN i,Bruf.QIherti,B.5Bruhaker, Q. ., .B ROPESSOR ALBERT PHILSON BRUBAKER was born August 12, 1852, at Somerset, Pa. He received his early education at the Somerset Academy, and began his medical career in the office of his illustrious father, Dr. Henry Brubaker, who was widely known throughout VVestern Pennsylvania, not alone on account of his success as a general practitioner, but on account of his scientific attainments and his devotion to the profession of medicine. He held the medical leadership due to his technical skill, intelligence, integrity and liberal supply of good common sense. Dr. Henry Brubaker was of Swiss extraction. He was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1827, educated by private tutors, at Allegheny College, and in 1851 was given his medical degree and diploma by jefferson Medical College. Immediately following his graduation he returned to his native county and started on a career that quickly placed him in the front ranks of the practitioners of the day. Dr. Henry Brubaker was a scholarly gentleman and an untiring student until the day of his untimely death at the age of sixty-two. He was a helpful man, a Christian man, and in Somerset and surrounding counties his memory will be forever cherished as one who was a beloved leader among men. In the history of Pennsylvania, one incident in the professional life of Dr. Henry Brubaker that should inspire the medical men of today, especially those who are standing at the beginning of their careers, will serve to illustrate his lofty sense of professional ethics and his wide humanity: A workman in a railroad camp near Somerset was taken down with a virulent attack of small-pox. The neighborhood soon became panic stricken, fearing that the dread malady might become epidemic. No one save Dr. Brubaker dared enter the house in which death lurked, but he did, and as often as three and four times a day, until death made his visits and ministrations no longer necessary. Then, in the teeth of a wild mountain storm, with the mercury twenty degrees below zero, he fashioned a rude casket, placed the body of the dead man in it, and, lowering it into the grave dug with his own hands, offered a prayer for the repose of the victim's soul. An incident which shows the very spirit of the man and reveals to us his heart of hearts! Dr. Henry Brubaker was a man full in learning, ripe in knowledge, rich in experi- ence, of sympathetic temperament, liberal in spirit and just in act. Thus a rare parental legacy was given to his eldest son, Albert Philson Brubaker, who, as a member of the Class of 1874 of jefferson Medical College, graduated with honor and distinction. In the succeeding years he was associated with Dr. james C. VVilson, now our Emeritus Professor of Medicine, in the Medical Clinics of the jefferson Hospital. About this time he became intensely interested in Physiology, doing experimental and research work, in 1880 he was appointed Demonstrator, and in 1885 Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, a position which he held for twenty-two years. Two years later the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Dr. Brubaker by Franklin and Marshall College as a tribute to his scholarly attainments. 4