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

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'. 2 ALICE XYELD T.xL1.,xNT, AB., MD. Professor of Obstetrics. Dr. Alice W'eId Tallant was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her preliminary education was acquired in the private schools of Boston, and in 1897 she graduated from Smith College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. From 1897 to 1898 she taught in a Boston private school, at the same time carrying on special work in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . In the fall of 1898 she entered the johns Hopkins Medical School, from which institution she received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1002. She pursued special studies in Pathology at the Harvard Summer School and carried on post-graduate work in Obstetrics at the New York Lying-in Hospital. From 1902 to 1903 she was an interne at the New England Hospital for XVomen and Children, Boston. From 1903 to 1905 she worked in clinics of the Massachu- setts General Hospital and the Pope Dispensary of the New England Hospital, and at the same time she was Medical Examiner for the Gymnasium at Bates College. From 1904 to 1905 she was Assistant Physician to the Pope Dispensary of the New England Hospital. In 1905 she was made Professor of Obstetrics in the Woxnaifs Medical Col- lege of Pennsylvania and Obstetrician-in-Chief to the College Ilospital. and in 1906 she was appointed Physician to the Girls' Department of the House of Refuge. She attended Professor Bumm's clinics in Berlin in the summer of 1909. Member of the American Medical Association. the Pennsylvania Medical Society, Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Ohstetrical Society of Phila- delphia, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Social Disease, the Amer- ican Academy of Medicine. She has contrihuted to the literature of her specialty articles including Ob- servations on the Occurrence of Br0adbent's Sign. Infant Mortality in Obstetric Practice, and A Study of Fever in the Puerperiumf' 18

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HENRY Moiuus, M.D. Professor of Anatomy. Dr. Henry Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pa. After attending the public schools of the city, and studying at Bryant and Stratton's Business College, he finished his preliminary education at Princeton University, where he was a mem- ber of the Class of 1874. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Jefferson Medical College in 1878. Soon after, he was elected the assistant of Professor I. M. DaCosta in the Jefferson Medical College Hospital and was given charge of the Out-PractFce Department of the same hospital where he also was in charge of the Out-Practice Surgical Dispensary until 1883. Among the various teaching positions held by Dr. Morris, we mention that of Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Assistant Dem- onstrator of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in that same institution, Quiz Master in Anatomy and in practice of Medicine to the Medical Quiz Association and Instructor to the Preparatory for the Army and Navy Marine Hospital in the United States. In 1895 he was elected Professor of Anatomy in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphiag honorary member ofthe Altoona College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In addition he is a prominent member of numerous non-medical orders and organizations. His contributions to Medical literature have been: An article on Anatomy in the American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in 18813 Essentials of Gynaecologyf' Essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, The Condition of Biddle's Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Essentials of Practice of Medi- cine. The Condition of Biddle's Materia Medica and Therapeutics from 1883 to I887,u and numerous papers. I7

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- HARRY CLAY Dmvna, M.D. Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery ana' Clinical Surgery. Dr. Harry Clay Deaver was born in Shady Side Buck. P. O., Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Having attended public schools, he finished his preliminary education in West Nottingham Academy, Cecil County, Maryland, and entered Pennsylvania Uniggrsity, from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1 5. He was an interne at the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Deaver has held a great many oiifices in the past, and at present he is the Professor of the Principles and Practice of 'Surgery and Clinical Surgery in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Visiting Surgeon at the Epis- copal Hospital, Surgeon-in-Chief at the Kensington Hospital for Women, Surgeon at the Children's Hospital of the Mary I. Drexel Home, Consulting Surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Gynaecology, the Obstetrical Society, College of Physicians, the Academy of Surgery, the Pathological Society, and of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. Of his contributions to medical literature we may mention his works on Hernia in Children, Appendicitis in Children, with report of 500 cases, and Mesenteric Cysts. I9