Medical College of Pennsylvania - Iatrian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ARTHUR ALBERT STEVENS, A.M., M.D. Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine. Dr. Arthur A. Stevens was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His preliminary education was acquired in the Central High School of his native city and the University of Pennsylvania. F rom the latter institution he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1886. The following year was spent as interne in the Philadelphia General Hospital. Post-graduate courses were taken in the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Vienna and the London Post-graduate School. Dr. Stevens has held the position of Professor of Pathology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis, University of Pennsylvaniag Editor of University Medical Magazine. At present he holds the Professorship of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvaniag he is a Lecturer in Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania: Physician to the Episcopal Hospital and St. Agnes' Hospital, and Assistant Physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia County Medical Society, Philadelphia Pediatric Society, Philadelphia Pathological Society, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Among his numerous contributions to the medical literature, A Manual of the Practice of Medicine, Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Diseases of Circulatory System in the American Text-book of Pathology, stand out as most prominent in the world of science. I3

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FREDERICK PURTIOUS HENRY, M.D. Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. . Dr. Frederick Portious Henry was born in Middlesex County, New Jersey. His preliminary education was acquired in the private schools of Mobile, Alla.: Cranbury, N. 1.5 New York, Brooklyng Dresden, Germanyg Tours, Franceg and in Princeton University. In the year of 1868 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. From 1877 to 1879 Dr. Henry was Treasurer of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, and was President of the same from 1887 to 1888. During the years from 1881 to 1909 he was Censor of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and was President of the same in 1909. He has been Honorary Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia since 18903 Physician to the Episcopal Hospital, 1874-18885 Physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital since 18889 Physician to the ,lefierson College Hospital, 1888 to 1892. At present he is the Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Honorary Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital and Consulting Physician to the VVoman's Hospital of Philadelphia. Fellow of College of Physicians, Member of Philadelphia County Medical Society, American Medical Association, Association of American Physicians, Corres- ponding Member of the Royal Medical Academy of Rome, Overseas Member of Authors' Club, London, England. Editor of the Seventh Edition, Flint's Practice of Medicineg of the Standard History of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia. 13973 of the Founders' Week Memorial Volume, 1909. Besides these books he makes frequent contributions to numerous medical jour- nals, both American and European, and his works have greatly enriched medical literature. I2

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ADELJNIDE Wann PECKHAM, MD. Professor of Bacteriology. Dr. Adelaide XV:ird Peckham acquired her preliminary education in private schools of Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York. She received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the XVoman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1886 and from the XVoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1902. After graduation she worked for six years in the Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania, and took a special course in Pathology and Clinical Diagnosis in Johns Hopkins University. She is the Professor of Bacteriology in the XVoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and has been until very recently the Director of the Clinical Labora- tory of the XVoman's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has contributed to science experimental studies. Her work on the influence of the environment upon the biological process of the various members of the Colon group of bacilli and on a case of erysipelas genitalium due to the use of infected ointment has been a great addition to the present-day knowledge of bacteriology. ll