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

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nf|n 01. nuuteter - -J - - Urn o ■ CO 5j ' .y. A ' . BOND, M. D. Baltimore, Md. (Contributed by request of the Graduating Class of lil20 of the Medical Department, University of Maryland. March. 1920.) 1 will be my intention not to jiay any compliments to Dr. Hemmeter, because few methods of biog-ra])by are so certain to provoke anti- jiatby as this social form of idolatr} ' . He is still with us — those who read can judge for themselves. If in doubt, read biographies already written. Me is poignantly human, some lo e him for the very t faults he lias. Let them re ' iew his cultural experiences ; let them hear him render a Beethoven Sonata or paraphrase a Wagner opera ; .see him draw from the microscope a picture of any form of ]»thological condition of the stomach or liver or intestines, some of which microscopic drawings have found their way into Eurojiean medical literature. The Uni -ersity of Maryland has in its long career had among its Professors in the Medical Department a number of men ho had in them the stulT of which the highest type of physician is made — men who, while loving preeminently their special field of teacliing, loved also to roam in other fields of culture — whose heart- strings were so perfectly in tune that they thrilled to every note of the great har; of Nature. Read in Cordell ' s matchless Lives of the Saints of Medicine, of Dr. Shaw, poet and African traveler, who at thirty gave his life for Science in an ill-equipped laboratory. Of Dr. Crawford, a man one hundred years in advance of his times, who with an insatiable desire for light traced everywhere in Nature proofs of the existence of parasitism, and sacrificed his prospects as a medical practitioner to his efforts to base jiractice on the theory of germ infection as a cause of disease. Of Johnston, the surgeon, the microscope artist, whose delight was in the diatom and the polariscope. Of Chew, the student of humanity, w-hose masterly estimations of the therajieutic value of drugs were diversified by quota- tions from Shakespeare. ( )f Robley Dunglison, author of a three volume work on Physiology, which went through eight editions, and a Dictionary, 55,000 copies were sold during his lifetime, and in iSijj it had reached twenty-three editions. To this type of Nature-lover belonged those great master minds of a remoter past, wdnose deeils in various fields of science it has been Dr. Memmeter ' s effort to point out to his fellow medical men in his many publications on Medical Biogra- phy (see JANUS and J. H. LI. Merl. Reports). Whether great or small, we leave •Biopniphy of Professor Hemmeter in French L ' encyciopcdie contemporaine. Paris, April, 1901. An erican Men of Science, by Prof. McKeen Cattell, pape 142, The Science Press, New Yorl , The National Encyclopedia of American Biography, vol. IX, p. 373 l,Jas. T. White Co., Pub- lishers, New York ) . The Hi.stnry of the University of Maryland, vol. I, page 329 to 332 by Eugene F. Cordell. M. A. M. D. Men of Marix in America, pawe 179 (.lohnson-Wynn Co., Publishers, Washington, D. C.) Encyclopedia Americana, vol 8 Article on Professor J. C. Hemmeter t American Co., New York and Chicago). The World of Intellect, vol. 1, Berlin. 1910. Nm