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

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In Honor Dr. J. Edmund Bradley The retirement oi Dr. |. Edmund Bradley from his position of Professor and Head of the Department ' of Pediatrics creates a difficult void to fill. He has held this position for seventeen years, and has been associated with the Medical School since 1935. Assuming chairmanship of the Department in 1948, Dr. Bradley completely reorganized the Department of Pediatrics em- phasizing didactic training and research. This active Department persists as one of the best organized and most productive departments in the school. His leadership was soon recognized nationally and Dr. Bradley was made a Fellow of the National Academy of Pediatrics. As physician and professor, his patients and students always came first. As Dr. |. C. Krantz has said of Dr. Bradley, “H e walked among us a great man, adorned with dignity and sea- soned with humility.”

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The University of Maryland School of Medicine 1807 — The founding of the Medical College of Maryland, which later evolved into the University of Maryland 1813 — The first Medical College Library was established 1823 — This Medical School was the first in America to build a hospital specific- ally for bedside instruction of medical students 1824 — Dr. George Frick presented the first treatise in eye diseases by an American 1824 — Dr. H. G. Jameson was the first in Great Britain or America to excise the cervix uteri. 1833 — First medical school in the U.S. to make anatomic dissection a comprd- sory part of the curriculum 1848 — Dr. Thomas Murphy performed the first ovariotomy in Baltimore 1848 — For the first time in America, Diseases of Women was separated from Obstetrics 1853 — Dr. Frances Donaldson was the first in this country to advocate biopsy and microscopic diagnosis of malignancy, and to advocate excision and incision as operative and exfoliative techniques for the diagnosis of malignancy. 1866 — Dr. Frederick Van Bibber organized the first clinic on Diseases of Ghil- dren, and thus began the first teaching activities in a medical specialty. 1867 — The Medical School was the first to establish separate chairs for Diseases of Women and of Ghildren. 1873 — The first clinic for Diseases of the Eye and the Ear was established 1874 — The Maternity Hospital, associated with the Gollege of Physicians and Surgeons, was the first of its type to be founded in the U.S. 1893— Dr. James Burns was the first in the world to catheterize the male ureter in a living subject The University of Maryland School of Medicine is the fifth oldest American medical school. Davidge Hall is the oldest bixilding in the nation used continuously for the teaching of medicine. 6

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In Honor Dr. John C. Krantz Tlie retirement of Dr. John C. Kmntz as Professor and Head of the De- partment of Pliarmacology cnhninated thirty-three years of service to our Medical School. During this period, 3 ' 3, ()()() future physicians were e.xposed to the principles of pharmacology and the intelligent use of drugs under the aegis of Dr. -Krantz and his Department. Dr. Krantz, as educator, scientist, and gentleman, brought honor and tame to himself and the University. Teaching was his first love, and as a lecturer, there are few who surpass. His research activities produced more than three hundred publications, the largest group of which deal with volatile anesthetic agents. His textbook of pharmacology is currently in its sixth edition and has world-wide distribution. This modest, kind, gentleman, scholar and friend shall be missed. 8