University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine - Reflector Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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IT ALL BEGAN . In l894, there was published in a local newspaper: lt gives the faculty of the insti- tution the greatest pleasure to make this announcement-the new building is completed- because they feel that they have the most tasteful, comfortable and best arranged medical college edifice in the United States-perhaps even in the world. So was announced the completion of the present medical school on High Street, an event heralded with mucli acclaim by Buffalonians at that time. The charter for the Medical School of the University of Buffalo was granted in TS46, with instruction given in the old Baptist church building, on Washington and Seneca Streets. Its second home was erected in 1849 on Main and Virginia streets at a cost of fifteen thousand dollars raised by public subscription, while the present location on High Street was established in March l893. The organization of the Medical School, was effected by a group headed by Dr. Austin Flint serving as Professor of the Principle and Practice of Clinical Medicine , until l852. The remainder of the faculty, totaling seven physicians included Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, Professor of Surgery, Dr. James P. White, Professor of Obstetrics and Dr. James C. Dalton as Physiologist. The late President Millard Fillmore acted as the first chancellor for twenty- eight years, during which time he served one term as President of the United States. The University of Buffalo School of Dentistry was started about T886 on its present site at 25 Goodrich Street and finally the Niagara University Medical School founded in T883 was merged with the University of Buffalo in June l898. In those early days, clinical teaching was provided for by the Sisters of Charity Hospital, also by the General and the Erie County Hospitals where bedside teaching was stressed in the early days. Time passes-and with time came progress-From the days of the new Medical and Dental Schools on High and Goodrich Streets respectively, when Buffalo was a city of about thirty thousand with few, if any paved streets, little in the way of sewers and no water supply except wells and water carts, from which water was sold, Buffalo and the Medical and Dental sciences surged ahead. Traditions and fame flourished-Drs. Moore, Roswell Park, Stockton, Delancey Rochester, Busch, Hartmann, Mann, and many others after them added luster to the school. Concerning Dr. Austin Flint, upon his death in 1886, Dr. Osler wrote: To die in harness was a fit conclusion for a life of ceaseless work, and of this we may be certain, that so long as there are practitioners of medicine on this continent, the name of Austin Flint will be held in esteem and reverence.

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BERNARD WAKEFIELD T l 0 N To Doctor Bernard Wakefield we respectfully dedicate our Medentian-To honor his great skill, his ability to inspire, his teaching acumen and his paramount place in the profession.

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Today Bultalo stands as a great medical center through the progress of time-and yet time itself managed to imbed itself into the present day Medical and Dental buildings adding to their traditions and fame. How befitting it is that now a new chapter in this same history book is about to begin. A new and long awaited Medical-Dental building is already under construction on the campus of the University of Buffalo, far to surpass the fondest hopes of those men who wrote the earlier chapters. lt is with the sincerest gratification and sense of nostalgia that we now carry this thought with us through this yearbook as a theme and await to have that announcement of i894 once again repeated. lt all began . . . and yet each beginning is but one note to further progress. Disease is from of old and nothing about it has changed, It is we who change as we learn to recognize what was formerly imperceptiblef'-Charcot