Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE Was chartered by a special act of the Legislature of the State of Illinois, February, 1837. It has graduated more than four thousand physicians. This Seventeenth Triennial Catalogue contains the names of all its trustees, presidents, professors, assistant and adjunct professors, lecturers, quiz masters and Cl81J.1OI1St1'3.lDO1'S who have been connected with it since the date of its charter. Opposite the names appear the various titles borne and the length of service each has rendered. This Catalogue contains also the names of its alumni, together with the course of lectures at which they were graduated, and the consecutive number receiving the degree at each commencement. The hrst course of lectures was delivered in the second story of a frame building on Clark street, opposite the present location of the Sherman House, in the city of Chicago. The building next occupied was on the corner of Indiana and Dearborn streets, in the north division of the city. In the course of fifteen years of residence in that division, three different buildings were occupied, each successively larger than its predecessor. The great Ere of 1871 destroyed the College, with all of its appliances for instruction. Subsequently, from 1871 to 1375, a temporary and rudimentary structure was occupied at the corner of Arnold and Eighteenth streets. on the same lot with the Cook County Hospital. Thence a removal was made to the edifice familiar to the greater number of its alumni, on the corner of IVood and Harrison streets. In 1337 the college became the medical department of the Lake Forest University. To-day this institution occupies tivo large buildings, each Eve stories in height. One is the original structure built in this locality in 1374-5: on the opposite side of Harrison street is the Labor- atory, with a frontage of one hundred feet on a lot one hundred and thirty-six feet in width. This Laboratory furnishes every facility for practical instruction in anatomy. in histology and pathology. in bacteriology, in chemistry, and in materia medica. It contains several recitation rooms, in which are daily in- structed by quizzes and recitations six hundred students. The present classes number eight hundred and forty-eight matriculates, the largest number collected in any Medical School in this country for the session of 1894-5. The clinics are held in the upper lecture room. In them every type and variation of medical and surgical disease is exhibited, and all the minor and capital operations of surgery are performed every Week throughout the year. On the north Wall of the upper lecture room are displayed the bronze busts and oil portraits of all the Presidents of the College and of deceased members of the Faculty. A series of tablets of the different classes, from 1843 to the present date. surrounds these Works of art, each tablet presenting a class motto in imperishable brass. Adjacent to the main building is the Presbyterian Hospital, with a capac- ity of over two hundred beds. The connection between the upper amphitheater of the College and the hospital is such that the patients are readily transferred for diagnosis or op' erative treatment from one building to the other. The Faculty of the College, almost Without exception. constitutes the staH' of the hospital. 27-l