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

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1. MISS SADIE HEATH CABANISS, R.H., SUPT. 2. CHRIS BAKER ' S MOTHER- MAID 3.MISS FRANCES ELLER SON.R.N. (FIRST GRADUATE OLD DOMINION HOSPITAL) 1897 Miss Cabaniss

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1882 isis came in 1882 when Gt Wm. Cameron of the Readjuster regime decided to readjust the Board of Visitors by appoint- ing a new Board, appointing to it only two mem- bers of the old board, Dr. Lewis Wheat and the Right Reverend Francis M. Whittle, both of whom declined to serve. The members of the new board met at Ford ' s Hotel, but Governor Cameron insisted they meet at the College, effect an organization, and in- spect the books. When they reached the Egyptian Building they found Dean James McCaw and Dr. John Wellford standing guard and refusing admission. They then organized on the grounds and W. E. Sims made an attempt to enter the building, but he was arrested by a policeman the faculty members had on hand just in case he might be needed. Sometime later the new Board held another meeting in an attempt to eject the faculty; this attempt also failed, as did a third. The old Board sought advice of counsel and convinced that they were still the only legally qualified Visitors, appointed a committee to confer with the Attorney-General. No progress was made here and the matter was finally settled when the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the old Board on April 30, 1883. 1895 In 1895, Sadie Heath Cabaniss began nursing education under the Nightingale Plan at the College at the Old Dominion Hospital. Then Miss Cabaniss, after having had the experience of practical nursing, set herself to other tasks, suggested by this work. When she resigned from the Old Dominion Hospital in 1901, she came into residence at the Nurses Settlement in the fall of that year. In 1909, Miss Cabaniss became the first pub- lic health nurse in the State. She subsequently suffered a severe illness, which necessitated her abandoning all work for a period of three years, but she subsequently served in North Carolina and Florida and finally in 1917 as a war measure served in the ship yards at Port Wentworth for several months. She finally returned to Virginia where she died in July, 1921.

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Facultv — 1894 1. Dr. Thomas J. Moore 2. Dr. Hunter McGuire 3. Dr. L. M. Cowardin 4. Dr. VVm. Gordon 5. Dr. [. . . Hodges 6. Dr. [acob Michaux 7. Dr. Joseph While 8. T. Wilbur Chelf 9. Dr. Landon Edwards 10. Dr. Moses Hoge 11. Dr. Charles Steel 12. Dr. Charles Chalkley 13. Dr. Paulus Irving 14. Dr. Stuart McGuire 15. Dr. John Winn 16. Dr. m. Oppenheimer 17. Dr. James Ellis 18. Dr. C. V. Carrington 19. Dr. Edward McGuire 20. Tom Haskins 21. Dr. John Dunn In 1893, a second medical college opened its doors just two squares from the Egyptian Building. Chris- tened the College of Physicians and Surgeons when it opened, it became in 1894 the University College of Medicine, founded by the great Hunter Holmes McGuire. He served as professor of surgery in the Medical College of Virginia from 1865 until 1880. During his distinguished career, he served as president of both the American Medical Association and the American Surgical Association and held many other important offices. The new college was composed of three schools: medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, the first two having three year curricula and the latter a two year program. Virginia Hospital provided the necessary clinical facilities for the school of medicine; those for the dental school were in the College building. According to Dr. Wyndham B. Blanton, estab- lishment of the new institution was to have a most salutary effect on the old; for it stirred the latter to stronger efforts which brought about great progress. Unbeknownst to its founders, the University Col- lege of Medicine was destined to have a life span of only twenty years as an independent institution. Ear- ly in the first decade of this century. Dr. Simon Flexner visited the medical schools throughout this country. The findings he reported in the volume now universally known as the Flexner Report changed the face of American medical education, resulting in the closing of many medical schools and the consolida- tion of others, leaving the country with fewer but stronger medical education institutions. Among the schools which were consolidated were the Medical College of Virginia and the University College of Medicine, the consolidated institution car- rying the name of the older institution. Medical Col- lege of Virginia.