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

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The death of Isaac Edmondson Atkinson. AI.D., at his residence, in Balti- more, on November 24, 190G, from pneumonia, removes from this community one who held the highest rank in the medical profession of Maryland and a most distinguished position among the Alumni of this University. He was born in Baltimore on January 23, 1846, of ancestry who came from the Eastern Shore, and he held the tenets of the Society of Friends. He was educated at the School of Arts and Science of this University and obtained his medical degree from the same source in 18Go, when he was only twenty years of age. He served his early apprenticeship in the General and Special Dispensaries, and for some years devoted himself with enthusiasm to diseases of the skin. He was recognized as a national authority upon this subject, and in 1887 was elected President of the American Dermato logical Association. He held many other offices of honor, among which were the Presidency of the Clinical Society and of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Consulting Physician of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and various chairs in this University, viz: Dermatology, 187y- ' 81; Pathology, 1881- ' 86 ; Materia Medica, 188G-1900. He also held the Deanship of the Faculty of Physic from 1890- ' 93. He contributed largely to the development of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, and was a member for many years of the State Lunacy Commission. In 1883, during the smallpox epidemic, he was chosen to superintend the movement for its sup- pression. He contributed many articles to medical journals and was one of the authors of Pepper ' s System of Medicine. Dr. Atkinson was one of the leading consukants of Baltimore. He was well equipped for professional duty, his knowledge being exact and thoroughly up-to-date. He possessed a quick appreciation and a strongly judicial mind, great self-possession, a cheerful serenity of temperament, and a gentle and attractive mapner. These qualities secured for him the confidence and affection of a large circle of friends. He was one of our most expert diagnosticians, and used the resources of the Materia Medica with skill and confidence. The solicitude shown regarding him during his last illness was universal, and a multitude attended his funeral services from Emmanuel P. E. Church. •■}Ie is not dead, but rests, to live, As long as loving memory can Keep green a name that strove to give Its best alike to God and inan. E. F. C. 21

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Board of Regents of the University of Maryland. Bernard Cartick. LL.D., Provost. Samuel C. Chew, AI.D., Hon. John P. PoE, F. J. S. GoRGAS, M.D., D.D.S., Jas. H. Harris, M.D., D.D.S., R. Dorsey Coale, Ph.D., Richard M. Venable, Esq., Randolph Winslow, M.D., Thomas A. Ashey, M.D., Edgar H. Gans, Esq., Wm. T. Brantly, Esq., Hon. Henry D. Harlan, L. E. Neale, iM.D. ' , Charles W. Mitchell, M.D., J. Holmes Smith, M.D., D. M. R. Culbreth, M.D., John C. Hemmeter, M.D., Ph.D. Charles Caspari, Jr., Phar.D., Daniel Base, Ph.D., Henry P. Hynson, Ph.G., Hon. Henry Stockbridge. LL.D. 23