Tulane University School of Medicine - T Wave Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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J profession of I do solemnly swear by whatever I hold most sacred, that I will be loyal i medicine and just and genfTtTus to its members. ) That I will lead my life and practice my Art in uprigl; That into whatever home I shall enter it shall be for the bod of tne sick and the well to the utmost of my power, and that I will hold myself al oo om wrong and from corruption and from the tempting of others to vice. That I will exercise my Art, solely for the cure of my patients and the prevention of disease and will give no drugs and perform no operation for a criminal purpose and far less suggest such thing. That whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fitting to be spoken, I will keep inviolably secret. These things I do promise and in proportion as I am faithful to this oath, may happiness and good repute be ever mine, the opposite if I shall be forsworn.

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History Of Tulane Medical School ff ulane Medical School had its auspicious beginning as the Medical College of Louisiana in ■ 11 September 1834. Three brash young medical men, all less then 26 years of age, initiated the F I J beginning of medical education in Louisiana. They were Thomas Hunt, who was to become the ■ first dean of the medical school. Warren Stone and John Harrison. In addition to these three founders, the faculty of the school consisted of four other local physicians: Augustus Cenas, Charles Luzenberg. T.R. Ingalls. and E.B. Smith. Dr. Thomas Hunt Dr. Warren Stone Dr. John Harrison Establishment of the school was met with considerable opposition from the Creoles, whose ideas concerning medical education were based on the European system which stressed academics well grounded in the Latin and Greek classics. The idea of providing medical education without this foundation was utterly incomprehensible. Furthermore, the Creoles regarded all American universities with disdain and considered them hardly on a par with the European universities. When the medical school first opened its doors in January I $35, it became the first medical school in the Deep South and the fifteenth oldest in the country. The inaugural address was given by Dean Hunt in the First Presbyterian Church. In addition to this church, various other borrowed quarters were used for lectures. A lecture room in the State House and wards in Charity Hospital also served as classrooms. These temporary facilities were the only ones available for use during the next several years, while the faculty attempted to secure the necessary funds for construction of a permanent structure to house the fledgling school. , r u LU. Ucitcif A.A ' tiA.M.f ju t 4 v k « 9LAAJt itCiAX f — A4 olajuC '