University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Hon. John P. Poe, Ex-Attorney General of Maryland. The position of Provost was tilled by that eminent scholar and jurist, the Hon. Severn Teackle Wallis, from 1S70 until his death in 1894. The second Provost of the University of Maryland, the Right Rev. James Kemp, D.D., conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. upon Lafayette in the University Building, October 9, 1824, during the last visit of that illustrious Frenchman to the United States. The diploma was enclosed in a handsome silver box, and was the first instance of the conferring of this degree. The present Provost, Bernard Carter, Esq., is one of the most eminent members of the Baltimore legal profession. In 1820 the Museum of t ' le Medical Department of the University, in Practice Hall, a large building adjoining the University Building, received through Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison, of Scotland, who occupied the Chair of Surgery in the University Medical Department, the anatomical collection of the celebrated Scotch Anatomist, Allen Burns, which in variety, excellence and number was superior to any other in this country. Dr. Pattison resigned in 1827, and was succeeded by the celebrated surgeon. Professor Nathan R. Smith, M.D., who occupied the Chair of Surgery from 1827 to 1869, and was Emeritus Professor of Surgery from that time until his death in 1877. The University Hospital, first known as the Baltimore Infirmary, was erected in 1823, on the southwest corner of Lombard and Greene streets, to which extensive additions were subsequently made. In 1896 it was determined to remove the main Hospital building and erect a much larger one on the same site. This new building is at the present time far advanced, and will be completed during the present year, when the University of Maryland will possess a hospital, which in accomodations, equipment and appearance, will compare favorably with any other in this country. In 1837 the first dental lectures in America were delivered in the University of Maryland by Dr. Horace H. Hayden, one of the earliest practitioners of Dentistry in Baltimore. Following the example of Harvard, Penns l ' ania, and other Universities, in 18S2, by an Act of the Legislature of Maryland, a new department was established under the title of The University of Maryland Dental Department. The first Faculty of Dentistry consisted of Ferdinand J. .S. Gorgas, A.M., M.D., D.D.S , Professor of the Principles of Dental .Science, Dental Surgery and Dental

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Prosthesis; also Dean; James H. Harris, M.D., D.D.S., Professor of Operative and Clinical Dentistry ; William E. A. Aiken, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Chemistry; Samuel C. Chew, A.M., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; F ' rancis T. Miles, A.M., M.D., Professor of Physiology; L. McLane Tiffiiny, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Surgery ; J. Edwin Michael, A.M., M.D., Professor of Anatomy ; John C. Uhler, M.D., D.D.S., Demonstrator of Prosthetic Dentistry; Erank L. Harris, D.D.S., and Lewis M. Cowardin, D.D.S., Demonstrators of Operative Dentistry ; Randolph Winslow, A.M., M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. A new Dental Building, containing a large, well arranged, and fully equipped Infirmary and Laboratory ; alsoa Museum, together with extracting, impression, and reception rooms, was erected on Greene street, adjoining the University building, in 1882, to which several additions have since been macie. The success of the Dental Department has been remarkable, as during the first session which commenced October i, 1882, sixty-six students were matriculated, and at the first Commencement in the following March, the degree of D.D.S. was conferred upon the members of a graduating class numbering thirty-four. Every year since its organization the number of matriculates has increased, over two hundred being present at the recent sessions. In connection wiih their dental lectures, dental clinics and Infirmary and Laboratory practice, the dental students attend the same lectures as the medical students on Anatomy, Chemistry, Physiology, Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; they are also admitted to all the surgical clinics. The instruction in all branches of dental science is as thorough as it is possible to make it. The University of Maryland at the present time consists of three departments : Medicine, Law and Dentistry, all moving along the lines of progress and building the fame of the University far and wide. 28