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

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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

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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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ELLA B. EYERITT, A.M., M.D. Professor of Gynaecology. Dr. Ella B. Everitt was born at Danville, Pennsylvania. After attending the public schools of her native town, she entered Wilson College for VVomen, from which she was graduated in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the autumn of the same year she began the study of Medicine at the Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania, receiving its diploma in ISQI. The degree of Master of Arts was subsequently conferred upon her by XVilson College. She served as Resident Physician in the NVoman's Hospital of Philadelphia from Sep- tember, 1891, to September, 1892, and immediately thereafter took charge of the Northwestern Hospital for lVomen and Children at Minneapolis, Minnesota, holding the position of Medical Superintendent for one year. She resigned to become Assistant Physician and Gynaecologist to the State Hospital for the Insane at St. Peter, Minnesota, where she remained three years. After a year of private practice at Mankato, Minnesota, she returned to Philadelphia to take charge of the NVoman's Hospital as Chief Resident, discharging the duties of that office and serving as a member of the gynaecological staff until her election to the Chair of Gynaecology in the W'oman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1902. In addition to her professorship, Dr. Everitt is Attending Gynaecologist to the Woman's College Hospital, Obstetrician to the Philadelphia General Hospital and Clinical Lecturer on Gynaecology in the same: Gynaecologist to the Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for Feeble-Minded and Epilcptic: Consulting Gynaecol- ogist to Bryn Mawr College, Gynaecologist to the Children's Aid Society of Penn- sylvania, etc. She is a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. She has contributed a number of articles to the literature of her specialty. W