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

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TERRA MARIAE ( I MEDICUS 1951 The school circa 1870 The Annual Publication of the Student Bodies of THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE and SCHOOL OF NURSING Baltimore; Maryland

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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.