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

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Dr. Richard Bohannan Dr. Lewis Chamberlayne Dr. John Cullen Dr. Augustus Warner NO LIKENESS AVAILABLE Dr. Socrates Maupin Dr. Thomas Johnson

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On December 1, 1837, the president and trustees of Hampden-Sydney College created a medical department to be located at Rich- mond, and appointed to the first four chairs to be filled the petitioners who had sought the department ' s founding — Doctors Richard Lafon Bohannan, Lewis Webb Chamberlayne, John Cullen, and Augustus Lockman Warner. Two additional professors were appointed prior to November 5, 1838, the opening day of the first session; these were Doctors Socrates Maupin and Thomas Johnson. Through the years these six original faculty members have been regarded as the founders of the College.

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IKTCIBM ' j I f . WAl-i ' tji. u II . i-norKxtoit MEDICAL DFPARTMINT. .5 I! T ll .r,.,nn„n ' iM.T).1 jH.itni.i ' Hrtui ,mJ y lin.ipninc .■ » i [ ' ' ' fl 1 «toaL5j; jnc u.il -D,-p..r1,iunt ■ PROFESSORS ' TICKETS — The student paid $20 to the professors for each of the six courses. The College opened on November 5, 1838 in the old Union Hotel located at the corner of Nineteenth and Main Streets. An editorial in the Southern Literary Messenger for July, 1839, reads, When it is recollected that this college has suddenly sprung into existence unaided by public endowment, too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the individual enterprise, per- severance and energy, which have already achieved for it a character of stability and usefulness not surpassed by older institutions. The spacious and elegant building which it oc- cupies, could not have been better adapted to its various uses, if originally designed exclusively for such objects. The general lecture room has been fitted up in a style of superior taste, and is large enough, we should judge, to contain with ease two hundred students. There are, besides, two other lecture rooms for the chemical and anatomical classes, and we confess we were very agreeably surprised at the extent of the anatomical mu- seum, and, as far as an unprofessional spectator could judge, the completeness and excellence of the chemical apparatus. That however which must give peculiar value to the institution, is the presence of an infirmary within the walls of the building, in which the patients are provided with airy and comfortable rooms, attentive nurses (Sisters of Charity), and constant medi- cal attendance. The opportunity which is thus afforded for instruction at the bedside of the sick, by an easy and convenient transit from the lecture room, cannot it seems to us be too highly appreciated.