Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Stuart McGuire, M.D., LL.D. President Emeritus Medical College of Virginia i6

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The regulations drawn up at this time provided for six professors who were to give a course of lectures of five months (November toi March) each year. Two years previous study with a reputable practitioner, attendance upon a full course of lectures, dissection, and a thesis, were the requirements for graduatioon. The degree of M.D. was to be conferred by the president and trustees of Hampden-Sidney College. The first faculty and the courses given were as follows: Thomas Johnson, professor of Anatomy and Physiology. John Cullen, professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. R. L. Bohannon, professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. L. W. Chamberlayne, professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Augustus L. Warner, professor of Surgery, and dean. Socrates Maupin, professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. Forty-six students enrolled the first year. By 1850 there were ninety matriculates. At first a private venture, the state was finally aroused to foster it by substantial pecuniary help. For several years both the college and infirmary were under one roof, housed in the Union Hotel, Twelfth and Main streets. The Richmond papers of the day wrote enthusiastically of the physical outlay. The museum and chemical equipment were impressive. The school was much in the daily press at the opening of each session. For a week or tem days each professor gave a popular lecture to which the general public was invited. These lectures were fully commented upon in the papers the following day. In 1850 the school was moved to the new building on Shockoe Hill, which is now known as the Egyptian building. Here again the college and infirmary were under one roof. There were three lecture rooms, an airy dissecting room, and a basement. Gas lights were a feature. The infirmary had three wards and cared for patients for from $3.00 to $5.00 a week. Among the early faculties there occur illustrious names which should not be forgotten. Jeffries IVyman, a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Three years professor of Anatomy (1843-1847). He was called to the Harvard professorship of Anatomy. He became a distin- guished paleontologist as well as anatomist. It was he who was responsible for the splendid museum of our college in those days. Charles Bell Gibson. — Like so many others was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He was in the faculty from ' 1846-1865. He introduced ether anesthesia into Virginia. He was an orator and soldier as well as a great surgeon. David H. Tucker. — Student of medicine at both the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania. Then walked the hospitals, especially in Paris. He was a distinguished professor of medicine (1847-1869). Beverly R. IVelford. — Graduate of the University of Maryland. Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1854-1878). He enjoyed the distinction of being once president of the Amer- ican Medical Association. E. Broivn Sequard. — International physiologist, was just long enough in the faculty (1853- 1855) to establish a menagerie of dogs and cats in the basement and to leave upon his stu- dents an indelible impression of a great vivisectionist and original investigator in one of the fundamental sciences.

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William T. Sanger, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. President Medical College of Virginia