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

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MATCH March 5, 1975 Wake up Frank, the lecture is over Wow! Your mission Tom is to spend three more years in Baltimore. “Yes Scott, all the nurses at Grady love beards. It ' s great that Woody loves us That bastard got my place! Why are these people smiling? Kl 1 ! --. 1 I I I ff •

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Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison Granville Pattison To most students and Baltimoreans, there was no doubt that the greatest lecturer at Maryland was the eloquent Scottish professor, Granville Sharp Pattison. He made no lasting medical dis- coveries but his energy, his reputation and his incredible charisma invigorated the Medical Col- lege. He radiated greatness whether he pos- sessed it or not, and more importantly he gave his associates a sense of greatness. Wherever Pattison went he attracted admirers. Students regularly applauded his lectures, and most of them, assumed as he did, that they had heard the world ' s greatest authority on whatever he had discussed. He was elected dean of the medical faculty within a year of his arrival. Extraordinarily handsome, he especially impressed the women. Wives and debutantes of Baltimore pursued him with notable success and 50 years after he left Baltimore, his amours were legendary. It was said that he had taken so much mercury (for V.D.) that he was afraid to touch a doorbell for fear of electric shock. Pattison arrived in Baltimore in 1820 with the usual storm of controversy in his wake. He had left Glasgow because of the adultery charge concerning the wife of a fellow professor. Landing in Philadel- phia, he advertised his presence and informed the University of Pennsylvania that he was available to assume the chair of surgery. Infuriated by their refusal, he attempted to organize a rival group of physi- cians hoping to drive the older school out of business. Tiring of that, he offered his services to Mary- land. As a part of the conditions on which he came, Pattison sold to the University a magnificent collec- tion of anatomical specimens that he had acquired in Glasgow. Containing over a thousand specimens of beautifully pickled normal and diseased organs, the collection was invaluable for teaching. Pattison received $7,800 and the University considered that a bargain. Dr. Davidge obligingly took the chair of anatomy so that Pattison could have the chair of surgery that he demanded. Throwing himself into University affairs, Patti- son was fully dedicated to its financial wellbeing as well as his own. To house new facilities and the swelling enrollment, he persuaded the fac- ulty that their eight year old building needed an addition. Completed in 1821, the new, two-story, $8,000 structure was northeast of the older build- ing. Undoubtedly Pattison ' s greatest project was the establishment of a teaching hospital adjacent to the school and administered solely by the pro- fessors for the students. The infirmary, as it was called, was the third University building. Situated across the street from the medical school on Lombard Street and a half a block east of Greene Street, the 60 bed hospital was ready for patients in the fall of 1823. A handsome 4-story building in the Federalist style, it cost the faculty $14,109 for construction and $2,500 for beds and furnish- ings. Resident students could obtain room and board in the hospital for $300 a semester and for the patients the fee for board, room, nurses and doctors was $3 per week. H University of Maryland ..rfr J rr » M Af

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What me worry, I know I ' ll match somewhere. Meet Arlie ' s boy, Tom Divilio New Mexico gets Maryland ' s Front Lobe syndrome. Thanks for all the help you ' ve been and the inter- est you ' ve demonstrated for the last four years Dr Maryland? I didn ' t even apply to Maryland. f v ' C if rv m I ' v i mm v 1 »■ ' j r iuK