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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 '
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In 1 836. the governor of the state attempted to help the medical faculty obtain funding for the erection of a school building. A measure appropriating $60,000 for this purpose was proposed and passed by the senate, but it was defeated by the house. It was not until 1843 that any definitive action was taken. On March 22 of that year, a law was passed permitting the medical faculty to erect a building on a lot belonging to the state, on Common Street between Baronne and Dryades Streets. There were two conditions attached to the law: first, the faculty should donate their services to Charity Hospital without pay for ten years, and second, that one student from each parish would be admitted annually to the medical school for the next ten years. The senator and representatives from each parish were to name each candidate. The state also reserved the right to reclaim all properties at the end of the ten year period. The fact that this new bill gave the faculty of the school professional privileges at Charity Hospital created an uproar among the town ' s medical practitioners. The opposition was based on the belief that the medical school would be given a monopoly over medicine and surgery at Charity. When it was made clear that this was not the case, the medical community joined together, resulting not only in the best medical care the city had ever seen, but also providing the school with a clinical teaching hospital that was gradually evolving into one of the top such facilities in the country. Charity Hospital is credited with being the first institution of its kind in the country, having been established in January 1736. almost 100 years prior to the founding of the Medical College of Louisiana. The hospital initially opened with a total of five beds and served not only as a hospital, but also as an asylum for the indigent of the city. The original hsopital was located on a sight that is now known as the French Quarter and has since occupied four other buildings, including the present facility which was opened in 1 939. Throughout the early 1 800 ' s. the hospital expanded, until, by the mid 1 850 ' s. Charity was one of the largest hospitals in the world. It had the capability of housing 1 ,000 patients, although some patients were sleeping on pallets on the floor or sleeping two to a bed. At the present time the number of beds is given as 1 .640. However, the lack of nursing personnel has forced the closure of several wards, resulting in an actual number somewhat below this figure. Meanwhile, having obtained legislative approval for professional privileges at Charity Hospital, the faculty immediately set about drawing up the plans for a building to house the medical school. This building was estimated to cost $6,000 and was not completed until the end of 1843. In 1845. a Constitutional Convention specified that the Medical College of Louisiana was to become the Medical Department of The University of Louisiana. Two years later additional funds were appropriated to erect buildings for the new university. The original building was returned to the state to be used by the newly established law department. A much larger building was erected adjacent to the original medical building for use by the medical department. At the time of its founding, the number of medical students consisted of a grand total of eleven. From 1 834 to 1 859. the number of students grew from I I to 276. Just prior to the Civil War in 1 86 1 . the number of students increased dramatically to 404 because of political and sectional hostility which induced Southern students to abandon Northern colleges. When the war broke out. most students joined the war effort in such numbers that, by 1 862. only 94 students were enrolled. Federal occupation of New Orleans forced the closure of the medical school later that year. N. ' u, Orkoa Cii.trily Hotpiul IS34 -I9}9
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