University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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A DEDICATION Not alone to the student who for a few brief years is detained within these walls and is then released to take up the profession to which he has been introduced; but also to those in the later years who maintain the devotion, the enduring energy, to know the truth and let it be their guide, do we, the editors, dedicate this book. This school, this cluster of buildings here in downtown Baltimore, by its very nature, by the simple fact of its having been erected at all, is also dedicated to the same individuals; just as have solid buildings and temples for centuries past. But all this tradition and these fine buildings are not erected for the student and the student alone. We are students for a reason, and all this energy to make us students is not directed at learning in the abstract, but in its application. It is hoped that in learning all these sub- jects and facts and in applying them that we will not forget the one to whom the entire effort is directed, the patient.

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,■ . .• . i-: THE SCHOOL ,« - iM The students in the picture to the left are enjoying a custom of lounging between classes in front of the main medical school building. Assuming that this custom has been unbroken through the years this is the one hundred thirty-eighth consecutive such group to be allowed this particular privilege before this particular building. Annually since 1812, when the building was completed, there have left from these doors an unbroken succession of Doctors of Medicine. This is unique among medical school buildings on this continent and a point of pride among our gradu- ates. Indeed the school itself, although founded only four years prior to the construction of this building, is antedated by only four other American medical schools. The school has been strengthened from time to time since its inception by a method which, were it not for the ultimate purpose and results obtained, would remind one of those used by the various trusts and monopolies that have dotted .American history. This method is the elimination of competition, in this case by the ingestion and assimilation of three other medical schools which at one time or another have had their individual existence here in Baltimore. The first to be thus engulfed was the Washington University School of Medicine which was established in 1827 and merged in 1878. Through this maneu- ver the teaching beds at Mercy Hospital were placed under control. The Baltimore Medical College and the Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons were the other two to join us and were enfolded in 1913 and 1915 respectively.

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These freshmen, standing on the preclinical side of Greene St., are probably thinking of almost nothing at the moment but Anatomy. In the background looms what for them is yet to come, when as seniors and interns days, nights, and weekends will be spent in the Hospital.