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

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in fields all over the world. James Carroll was serving under Walter Reed on the Army ' s Yellow Fever Commission in Cuba; in Panama in 1906, Samuel T. Darling was publishing accounts of a new and unknown disease — histoplasmosis. W. T. Council- man was Dr. Welch ' s first assistant at the Hopkins and was later to be Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. ONE HUNDRED YEARS In 1907, the University marked the centen- nial anniversary of its founding. A four day celebration was honored by the pres- ence of distinguished medical men from all parts of the country and the principal ad- dress recounted the progress of the school thru the century, during which it had pro- duced 6,000 physicians. With this backward glance, the university then moved on to another period of change. In 1912 Dr. Arthur M. Shipley was named Professor of Surgery and was to hold this post for 34 years. In 1913 Dr. Gordon Wil- son became head of the Chair of Medicine and attained national prominence in the field of diseases of the chest. It was in 1913 also, that the University School of Medicine was consolidated with the Baltimore Medical College. In 1915 the University merged with the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons. The latter had been founded in 1872 and had, in its turn, ab- sorbed the Washington University of Medi- cine in 1877. Washington had been the first rival of the University of Maryland in Bal- timore, having been created in 1827 by a University graduate during the regents- trustees battle. The faculty of the Baltimore Medical College and that of the College of Physi- Anatomy Laboratory 20

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The University buildings in 1890. New University Hospital — 1897. rir.c£mfi i ? ■ = ' ■-- ' ' ' sT ' t- ' ■ ' jm WEKfnmimmns sfm i iMm 19

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Operating Room, University Hospital — 1898. Centennial Celebration, 1907. 21