Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Ellumni Elssociation HE Annual Reunion of the Alumni Association of Rush Medical College was held on Monday, May 21st, Tuesday, May 22d, and Wfednesday, May 23d, 1894. A new departure in the annual gath- ering was inaugurated at this time. Heretofore meetings had been held at various places in the city, but last year the meetings were all held at the College buildings. These meetings were exceedingly interesting and of unusual value. Large numbers of the Alumni were present from the various States and participated in the exercises. At ten o'clock, on May 21st, the exercises were opened by a clinic on Internal Medicine given by Prof. LYAIAN. At 1:30 P. 11. there was a clinic on Diseases of the Chest, Throat and Nose, by Prof. Ix0,x1.s. At 2:30 P. 11.a clinic on Skin and Venereal Disease, by Prof. HYDE. At 4:00 P. 11. the regular Class Day Exercises of the class of 1894 were held in the Amphitheater of the College. On Tuesday, May 22d, after an informal reunion of the Alumni at the College building, a clinic on general medicine was given by Prof. BRIDGE at 9:30. Then from 11:00 o'clock until 2:00 P. M. a reception was tendered to the Alumni in the Laboratory building. Students were at work on subjects of special interest to practitioners of medicine in the laboratories of Practical Anatomy, Chemistry, Histology, Pathology, Bacteriology and Experimental Physiology. A light lunch was served on the lower floor of the building. At 2:00 o'cloclc the Alumni and friends repaired to the Amphitheater of the College, where a surgical clinic was given by Prof. SENN. These clinics have been fully reported in THE CORPUSCLE at various times during the past year. At 4:00 o'clock a Scientific meeting was held in the College Amphitheater, and the fol- lowing programme was carried out. These papers also have appeared in full in THE CoRPUscLE: First, The Future Requirements of Medical Education, by Dr. PERRY H. RIILLARD, St. Paul, Minn. Second, Exhibition of Splint for Treatment of Ordinary Fracture of Leg or Ankle, by Dr. XV11. TUE.-XCHER, Portage, XVis. Third, Vaginal Tamponadef' by Dr. O. B.W11.L, Peoria, Ill. Fourth, Nature the Best Obstetricianf' by Dr. jxo. G. MEACHAM, jk., Racine, Wis. Fifth, Modern Transfusion, by Dr. L. L. MACARTHUR, Chicago, Ill. ln the evening arrangements had been made to attend Hooley's Theatre in a body to see the comedy of Charley's Aunt. This was one of the most enjoyable features of Commencement time, and the whole lower Hoor of the theatre was occupied by the Alumni and their friends. On VVednesday, at 9:00 o'clock, there was a Gynecological Clinic, given by Prof. ETHERIDGE, in the upper Amphitheater, and here, at 1:00 P. M., was held the annual business meeting of the Association. This meeting was called to order by Dr. A. L. NVright, class of '74, Carroll, Iowa, Ist Vice-President of the Association. The Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. john Edwin Rhodes, then read his annual report, from which we make extracts as follows: Attention was called to the fact from the membership in ISQ2, there was an increase in 257

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the total membership of SII for 1893-94. The funds at the beginning of the year were 82103, the amount turned over by the former treasurer. After unusual expenditures at the end of the year, there was a balance on hand at the time of the meeting of 551303. It became necessary during the year to entirely reconstruct the list of the Alumni. During the year circulars were mailed to those of the Alumni whose addresses could be obtained, calling their attention to the Association, and asking them to become members of it. The return of many of these letters enabled the Secretary to so reconstruct the list that at the present time it is as nearly accurate as it is possible to make it. Upward of ten thousand circular letters were mailed to the Alumni during the year, and a large number of copies of THE CoRPUsc1-E. It was suggested by the Secretary that some Alumnus in the city be appointed to have charge of the Alumni department of the journal. This was subsequently done by the selection of Prof. -Ino. M. Dodson. This department has been one of the most interesting in the journal. The Faculty, during the year, contributed in no small degree to the successful efforts of the Secretary in arousing the interest of the Alumni in a revival of the Association. The historyof the Association had never been written up, and it was with diffi- culty that data were found for the construction of such a history. However, from such data as could be obtained, it was written up by the Secretary and appeared in the PULSE of last year. Dr. A. I. Bouffleur, class '87, the Committee on Necrology, made a report from which we extract the following: Dr. 3obn 1benrQ flburpbg. In the death of Dr. Murphy, Rush Medical College lost one of its oldest and most loyal Alumni, and the medical profession one of its most distinguished members. His life was an exemplification of the motto, XVork wins XVorth, and it was bylhard, steady application to duty that this man reached the very leader- ship ofthe profession in the great Northwest. Dr. Murphy was born in New -Iersey in 1826, reared in Illinois, and gradu- ated from Rush College with the class of 1350. Immediately after graduating he located in the vicinity of St. Paul, with Whose growth and development into greatness he kept good pace until the inhrmities of age began to be manifested. Dr. lVIurphy had been a sufferer from diabetes for a number of years, and during the last six months of his life had suffered a great deal from numerous carbuncles about the head. Operations for their removal proved of but tem- porary relief, and on -Ianuary 51st he succumbed to the disease. Of late years it has been customary for his friends to refer to the deceased as the Grand Old Man. He was a man on all occasions. At college, at the bedside, on the battleheld, in legislative halls, as a surgeon, in domestic and social duties, he was ever known as a man-the same large-hearted, jovial, charitable man. 258