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

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NINETEEN-NINE TERRA MARIAE The Chancellor, Hon. Austin L. Crotiiers, LL.D. Governor of Maryland. The Pro-Chancellor, Hon. Bernard Carter, LL.D. The Vice-Chancellor, Thomas Fell, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L. President of St. John ' s College. Proi-s. R. V. Cecil, A.M., and C. W. Stryker, B.. ' . For St. John ' s College. Profs. R. Dorsey Coale, Ph.D., and Randolph Winslow, A.m., M.D. . For School of Medicine. Proi ' s. John P. PoE, LL.D., and W. T. Branti.v. A..M. For School of Law. Prop. F- J- S. Gorgas, M.D., D.D.S. For School of Dentistry. Proe. Charles Caspari, Jr., Phar.D. For School of Pharmacy. 12

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TERRA MARIAE NINBTEEN-NINE 3Pr0f 00or CliarbB W. Mxtxl til A. il.. M, i. Charles W. Mitchell, A.M., M.D., Professor of Diseases of Children, Therapeutics and Clinical Medi- cine — so reads the catalogue of the University of Maryland ; and it is a good thing that it reads that way — a good thing for the University and a good thing for the students of the Medical Department who go out yearly from its portals. The road that Dr. Mitchell travels in his two-fold duty as teacher of Therapeutics and Diseases of Chil- dren is formed by the convergence of two separate paths, and along these ways have traveled many of the men whose names are mighty ones in University annals, and not alone in University annals, but in that larger field of human endeavor where men have labored in all generations looking for better methods and better results. Let us look back a little along these converging paths. Of all the men who were the predecessors of Dr. Alitchell in either chair, only one is living — Prof. Samuel C. Chew — and if his culture, his manliness and his righteousness are products of those times, they were golden days indeed. In 1841, Prof. Samuel Chew, the father of Prof. Chew, succeeded Prof. Samuel G. Baker in the chair of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. In 1852, Prof. G. W. Miltenberger followed Dr. Chew, who was transferred to Practice. Dr. Miltenberger held this chair until 1858, when he was made Professor of Obstetrics. There followed Dr. Miltenberger in the chair of Therapeutics and Materia Medica a man who ranks with the University ' s most illustrious names. Prof. Charles Frick, who died in his early manhood at the age of thirty-six. He had operated on the throat of a woman with diphtheria, who was a patient in the hospital, contracted diphtheria, and died. Dr. Miltenberger was his physician, and performed trache- otomy, but without avail. It is needless to say that this was a generation before the days of antitoxin. In i860, Edward Warren succeeded to the chair, but held it only two years, when he went south and held high rank in the medical service of the Confed- erate army. After the war he returned to Baltimore and demanded the restitution of his chair in the Uni- versity, and was refused on the ground that he had left his position without permission. He became one of the founders of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of this city, later on went abroad, and was a medical officer in the Egyptian army, and afterward 13