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

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(4) The first American author to publish a complete text-book in Eng- lish on the Stomach. Designated by Boas as the best text-book on this subject in any language. The first author in the world to publish a compJete text-book on Diseases of the Intestines in 2 voliunes (Schmidt, E. Adol. Diseases of the Intestines. See Preface). Dr. Henuucter is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England ; an Hon. Member of Societa Physico Chemica, Palermo, Italy; and has received many other such testi- monials. In 19 1 3, he was Smithsonian Scholar at the International Biologic Institute of Naples, Italy. He is now editing two new works: I — Master Minds of Medicine and ' Physiology— a biologic and psychologic study of human genius as creative in these Sciences 2 — The Physiologic and . natomic Fundamentals of Piano Technique, and the Physiologic Psychology of Musical Appreciation. Dr. Heniinctrr is a rare couibination of artistic and scientific tastes, and lias achieved success in both fields. He has also a rarer combination of kindly feelings for his fellows and devotion to his friends. Dk. II. A. Keli.v. Dr. Hennneter is one of those rare possessions of a city — a niaji liu h up in his oi ni profession who has also found time and inclination to put his shoulder to the zi ' heel for the assistance and advancement of the musical art. The fact that he is recognised as a musical connoisseur makes his presence at any musical offering a guarantee to the value and importance of such an offering. W. G. OwsT. Musical I ' .ditor. Balto. News. I am glad to learn that you are to dedicate the University of Maryland Annual for IQ20 to m friend, Dr. John C. Henuneter, whose work and publications in ph ' siol()( y, in ' clinical medicine (especially gastro-enterology). and in medical history give him a place that is unique in the profession. Along different lines he has. as a pioneer, blazed new trials; and his accomplishments have gained recogni- tion not o)dy in this country but also in the leading countries in Europe. Lewkllvs F. B.vrker, M. D. admire J r. 1 1 etnmeter ' s many scientific achievenienis and am happy to number him among m friends. Si.MuN Flexner. EU

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to the decision of coming generations; liut tiiis we do know, that with them Dr. Hemmeter belongs. He, too, a master in his cliosen department, joys ever in that reaching out into the unknown, that effort to Ijring forth that hght that in all darkness dwells, as Faber so beautifully hymed it, long ago; and grasping ever so tiny a new fact, he must at once trace its outlines, apjily it to the needs of medi- cine, and let mankind know about it. We have many physicians of musical tastes among us, but who other than Hemmeter, after translating I3illroth ' s Physchological Aphorisms on Music and giving a musical setting to the Tzventy-third Psalm, could or would present, at the Baltimore meeting of the American Medical Association, a cantata entitled HYGIEIA for full orchestra and male chorus composed in honor of the Science and Art of Medicine, since performed in many of the larger cities in the United States. Yet Dr. Hemmeter has escaped that misfortune which has overtaken other medical teachers of broad interests. I ecently a remark was made in conversation that it is possible that Dr. Weir Mitchell ' s more enduring fame will be as a novelist. Holmes ' treatise on Puerperal Infection may fade before his Talks at the Break- fast Table ; but Dr. Hemmeter, whether speaking of musical themes or enquiring as to the nature of the Deity is, while reverent and impassioned, still preeminently and all the time a physiologist. It is to this that his remarkable array of mono- graphs and his text book on Practical Physiology are devoted ; it is to this that the honors showered upon him by medical and scientific associations testify ; it is upon this that his international fame is based. The atmosphere of Baltimore has, hitherto, not been favorable to the develop- ment of this type of mind. Philosophy and commercialism have ever been poor voke-fellows Even with his refreshing visits to European centres of science, it must have been difficult for Dr. Hemmeter to hold himself to his high ideals and to reach the place of honor to which he has attained. Our Medical School has in each generation had its men who did first things. To Dr. Henuueter are accorded quite a respectable list of these pioneer accom- plishments. He was ( 1 ) The first to make a radiogram of the human stomach. (See Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1896, pg. 609 and Barker L. F. Clin. Diag. of Interna! Dis. Vol. II, p. 307). (2) The first to devise a method for systematic intubation of the duodenum (See Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, April, 1896). The first in America to report and describe an infection of the human intestine with Lamblia intcstiiialis, a flagellate organism playing an important role in Trench Dysenteries of armies. (See Article on Lamblia by Chas. Wardell Stiles — Wash. Med. Annals 1902 ; also Book on the Rat and its relation to Public Health (U. S. Treas. Dept. 1910, pg. 91).

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W ' tfir mHiilli (ai ' doKa The editor breathes a sigh of reUef as he takes his pen in hand and begins to formulate an editorial, for him the grand finale of the 1920 issue of the Terra Mariae. He realizes in a dim visionary sort of way that the completion of this article will in so far as he is concerned, mark the completion of the annual and that from henceforth the editor and the Terra Mariae will travel dit¥erent paths. Looking forward to the moment of separation with anticipation he wonders if Shakespeare did not say parting is such sweet sorrow for his especial benefit. And yet to say that the work was all laborious and unmitigated by moments of pleasure would be a misrepresentation of fact, for he can distinctly recall several meetings of his staff which, with the aroma of good tobacco stimulating his nostrils, and the as])ert witticisms of gifted lawyers soothing his ears, passed away in a surprising short time, the neglected annual being entirely forgotten. Of the nights through which the candles burned into the wee small hours as the editor vainly tried to forget for the moment the symptoms of syringomyelia and to remember for the benefit of the year book whether and is a noun or an adverb nothing will be said. To recall them gives him no pleasure and an attempt to describe them would most certainly cause the onset of acute mania or at least hysteria from which recovery would be doubtful. So without further delay or the customary excuses this resume of the Senior Classes in the University of Maryland is turned out into a world which we hope. Trtiehe