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

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School of Medicine MITCHELL ROSEXHOLTZ M.D. Assistant Dean, Student Affairs WILLIAM S. STONE M.S., M.D., D.Sc. Director, Medical Education and Research and Dean, School of Medicine University of Maryland

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The University ADMINISTRATION

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-I - ack in 1807, two prominent Baltimore physicians, who had been giving private lectures in Anatomy and other medical subjects since 1802, decided to found a Medical School. Chartered by the State and called the College of Medicine of Maryland, they located the anatomical theater of the new school near where Saratoga and Liberty Streets cross today. However, the citizens of that day were horrified at the thought of human dissec- tion and by no means friendly to a medical school in which this was rumored to be practiced. In fact, feeling ran so high they took the first building by storm and by the time the mob was finished, the school was destroyed, the second of such incidents in twenty years and would seem to underline the Baltimoreans’ attitude towards medical schools. Dr. Davidge and Dr. Potter, the two pioneer medical educators, however, were not discouraged and the first class of five was graduated in 1810, medicine in those days being a two year course, although the second year’s lectures were the same as the first. A new building — the present Davidge Hall — was built in 1812 on ground donated by Colonel John Eager Howard.