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

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EXPANSION

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In 1861 eleven southern states had seceded, the first shots of the war had been fired at Fort Sumter, and J Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America . The College found itself playing an important role in educating surgeons for the Confederacy and caring for the wounded and sick personnel . ? As the number of wounded grew larger and the war drew closer , makeshift hospitals sprang up all over Richmond . Drugs became scarce and expensive . The situation was desperate . k With the fall of Petersburg in April 1865 , Richmond was evacuated and sections of the city were burned by fleeing citizens to keep arms and supplies from falling into Union hands . After the siurender at Appomattox, Richmond was occupied by Federal troops, and the job of Reconstruction begun. MCV was saved from financial troubles by the General Assembly in 1866. Enrollment fell in the late 1860 ' s, but by the 1870 ' s the college was ready to begin its Era of Expansion. rAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ' ••AAA AA A A • A A A flashback 1 1

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1870-1935 VlRfilNiA UOSJ ITAL ' S NEW AMBULANCE. : iiiy iHiliiiiiiii; ' :,! I ' ;ii ' iiiS!!S:i ' ;n ' ' :ii; ' l!!P!!!!!!!N!l!!! ' ' :!ri;i ' ;;! ■• ' ' :s! ' S. K,::;;;; iii ' ,,i l ' f ' iil! ' ' | ' iY wwmi With the war over , the U.S. began its era of expansion . East met West as railroads linked the Establishment East with the western frontier . Industrialization began to mustiroom , ' ' cooperates , monopolies , ' ' and labor unions became household words . The U.S. in this time became fascinated with the inventions by Bell , Edison and others . In this atmosphere of growth , the Medical College of Virginia began to expand also . In 1893 , a second medical school opened , the University College of Medicine; 1895 the School of Nursing was added and in 1898 the schools of Dentistry and Pharmacy were founded . The University College of Medicine and the Medical College of Virginia were consolidated in 1913 and the MCV name retained . As WW I began, MCV once again provided physicians to the armed forces serving throughout the world where men in U . S . uniforms were fighting . When the great influenza outbreak hit the U.S. in 1918, junior and senior medical students helped the State Health Department fill the demand for physicians . Classes were even suspended for some time . The Depression hit MCV hard but out of those dismal times came a face-lift that MCV is still undergoing today. flashback 13