SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Alexander I. C. Skene, M.D. After a nationwide search for candidates a distinguished faculty of eight was selected. Their teaching responsibilities included two sixteen week courses of lectures. Dr. Austin Flint, Professor of Practical Medicine and Pathology, was the most eminent member of the faculty. Known as the American Laennec, he was the chief proponent of the stethoscope in the United States, stressing its importance in physical diagnosis. He is best known for his characterication of heart murmurs. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, Professor of Surgery was the first advocate of skin grafting. He was Medi- cal lnspector of the United States Army during the Civil War and returned to Long Island College Hospital to chair the Department of Military Medi- cine, the first of its kind in the United States. Dr. John C. Dalton, Professor of Physiology and Microscopic Anatomy, was the most renowned physiologist in America in his time. He studied under Claude Bernard, championed the use of ether anes- thesia and introduced animal experimentation into medical education. The other members of the faculty included Dr. R. 20 Ogden Doremus, Professor of Chemistry and Toxi- cology, Dr. James D. Trask, Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Dr. Joseph C. Hutchinson, Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Operative Surgery, Dr. DeWitt Clinton Enos, Pro- fessor of General and Descriptive Anatomy and Dr. Edwin N. Chapman, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. An 1863 graduate, Dr. Alexander J. C. Skene, joined the faculty in 1865 and became Professor of Diseases of Women and Clinical Obstetrics in 1870. He devoted 34 years as teacher, Dean of the Faculty and President of the College. He was an authority in his field and discovered Skene's ducts. The first graduates were mainly confronted with infectious diseases such as cholera, dysentery, com- sumption, small pox and yellow fever and street and industrial accidents. Students graduating in 1861 were offered training in Military Surgery. As many used this in the service of the Confederacy as in the Union Army. The Class of 1869, which was photographed in front of the Long Island College Hospital, had

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