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

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I ' ROl ' . SAMrKK C. CHKW.

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and renieml)er the other fellow may be in the same half-sad, half-happy plight; feel there is nothing sai l l)ut in jovial comradeship, and bear in mind we all are good fellows together. As an Editorial Board we wish to offer no apologies for anything that may be consid- ered a defect in this book. Yet we do feel that we have the right to ask you to consider the many difficulties that have hampered us as an amateur staff ' ; remember, also, it is no trifling- task to procure the necessary amount of fit material for these pages, ' ith such con- sideration on }-our ]:)art, kind reader, we expect only fair and lenient criticism. Again, re- member that this Annual is not supposed to represent only the fertile minds of those chosen as Editors, rather it is to be the product of the student body. Hence it can only be of merit in proportion to their effort. We wish to extend our most hearty thanks for and appreciation of much valuable mate- rial from friends not directly connected with the Staff. As Editors, we are wiser today than we were yesterday. Naturally we feel we could edit another volume better than we have this one, which is our first and also our last. This edition of Terra Mari.E is now public propert} ' . Our results are at your mercy. If we have failed or succeeded to interest you is not for us to judge, but for you to say. In either instance, our only excuse for having undertaken what was almost an endless — and sometimes a thankless- — task, is College Spirit born of loving gratitude to our Alma Mater— the University of Maryland. THE EDITORS.

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The Chair of Medicine in the University of Maryland. t Samuel C. Cukw, M.D., Professor of the P ractiee of Medicine. AT THE foundation of the School of Medicine in the University of Maryland one hundred years ago the first physician appointed to the chair of Practice was Dr. George Brown, who was born in Ireland in the year 1755, and who in 177!) obtained his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh, which was then, as it has continued to be, a famous seat of medi- cal learning, largely through the great reputation of the Munros, who were known successively as Primus, Secundus and Tertius, and who were followed by other teachers of distinguished ability down to John Hughes P ennett and George Balfour of our own day. In 178;} Dr. Brown emigrated to Baltimore, where he attained great success as a practitioner, and where he was appointed to the chair of Medicine in this school at its foundation in 1S07, and was president of its Board of Regents until 181 :i. Dr. Brown was the grandfather of the late George William Brown, Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of this city, and at one time an instructor in the School of Law in our Univer- sity, and he was the great-grandfather of my friend, . rthur George ISrown, one of the most prominent members of the Bar of Baltimore at present, whose hereditary connection by this two-fold tie with the University of Maryland is, I am sure, a source of gratification to others of his friends, as well as to myself. Dr. Brown, though appointed to the chair of Practice, did not enter upon its duties, but re- signed the position almost immediately and was s ucceeded in it by Dr. Nathaniel Potter, who was thus the first actual or active incumbent of the chair, which he filled from 1807 to 184;{, the year of his death. I have no personal recollection of him, but there are two things which, when I follow Prospero ' s counsel and look into the dark backward and abysm of time. are among the very earliest engraven upon the tablet of my memory. One is the solemn tolling of bells which, on inquiring what it meant, I was informed, being then a little child, was for the death of the first President Harrison, who died, it will be remembered, just one month after his inauguration. The other record upon the tablet is that of someone at my home, I know not whom, uttering the words, Dr. Potter is dead. These two events of the long past have no con- nection with each other, except the fact that each is the record of the termination of a life. Although, as stated, I have no remembrance of having ever seen Professor Potter, his face is yet familiar to me, as it is to others now living, from the portrait of him which for many years has hung in the Faculty room of the School of Medicine. The attitude in which he is represented in the picture is that of a scholar holding in his hand a volume, which was one of his own works, Potter on Contagion, as is shown in the picture. Now it is most interesting