University Medical College - Scalpel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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's. qualifications, were turned away. Likewise from year to year scores of undesirable ap- plicants havelbeen refused admittance, but the enrollment has been well maintained by drawing a more select class of students than could have been induced to enter a school of a lower standard. U. M. C. has never been a trailer but always up with the times, often taking the lead in the move for better medical education. The first training school in the West for nurses was established by the trustees of U. M. C., likewise the first obstetrical clinic in the state was established in 1890 by Dr. L. A. Berger, then professor of obstetrics. Again she was the first school in this section of the country, with one exception, to extend the length of each year's work to eight months. All of this growth and development has not come without much toil and sacrifice, many times 'strife and contention almost to the point of disruption, but today harmony and peace prevails and the institution stands as a monument to the men who have striven, toiled and sacrificed. The good accomplished for suffering humanity both directly and indirectly by University Medical College and University Hospital can never be estimated, and of the future a brighter horizon never dawned. With proper management she should receive endowment sufficient to place her on a par with the best medical schools of the land. Long life and prosperity to old U. M. C. TI-IE THREE FOUNDERS NOW REMAINING IN KANSAS CITY. FLAVEL B. TIFFANY J. R. SNELL GEO. W. DAVIS

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McGee streets, under the The corner stone was laid July 29, 1881, at Twelfth and auspices of the Masonic Fraternity. The Rev. Dr. C. C. Wood, acting Grand Master for K' P esident of the the state of Missouri, was Master of Ceremonies. D-r. Willis P. ing, r Missouri State Medical Society made an interesting and witty address. Another speak- ' an at- er was Henry P. White, afterwards lecturer of Medical Jurisprudence. There was tendance of three thousand people, and thus under very favorable circumstances the ' 1 1. f d first building, which was completed in December, was begun. Di. Henry F. Here or . J. R. Snell the first dean. The new school was to be named the HUniversity of Kansas City, having literary and other departments as well as medi- cal. Thus it continued until 1888 when it became necessary in order to own and control the property to change the charter to that of a medical school only. The school of law and oratory were discontinued. The first building being sold, a lot at its present site, Tenth and Campbell, was purchased and a part of the present building erected. The re- organized school was christened, University Medical College, the name being sug- gested by one of the trustees who was a graduate -of University Medical College of New York. The first set of officers after the reorganization were: President, J. W. Jackson, Dean, James P. Jackson, Secretary, Emory Lamphear, and Treasurer, Geo. W. Davis. was the first president, Dr The first course of instruction was given during the winter of 1881 and 1882. The first class consisting of twenty-five students, and from the first day to the present time the school has made a constant and material growth, until today she stands high among medical colleges of the West, and well she may, for the more than twelve hundred men that have gone from the h-alls of U. M. C. have proven a success. They have been up to date at the time they have gone forth, they have been practical men, they have been both scientists and artists, they have been an honor to the medical profession and to their Alma Mater, they have been loyal to the school that sent them forth and their success and loyalty have turned the attention of the young men contemplating a medi- cal course to investigate and later to enter University Medical College. On the other hand the men who have been supervising the school during its growth have endeavored to keep the school abreast the times- in medical education. Of these, in addition to its founders, only a few names can be mentioned for lack of space. Among them are J. M. Allen, the second president, Dr. C. A. Ritter, the present treasurer, Dr. S. C. James, dean from 1901 to 19017, Dr. Geo. Halley, professor of surgery, Dr. Jabez Jackson, the present president, Dr. James E. Logan, the present dean, Dr. Walter M. Cross, present curator, and Drs. Albert H. Cordier, J. M. Frankenburger and Jno. Punton trustees. Their works will be mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Dr. C. F. Wainwright, formerly dean, is now professor of clinical diagnosis in the Post Graduate School of New York. Likewise Dr. S. G. Gant, formerly professor of rectal diseases, is now occupying the same chair in the school mentioned above. Dr. Claude Hamilton, professor of chemis- try, was elected city chemist, and owing to his enthusiasm in his special work was in his own laboratory infected by the germs of phthisis, and died- as a result. Dr. Sam Dennett, at one time lecturer on anesthetics, has climbed to the top in his specialty, be- ing employed at fabulous prices by the best surgeons of New York, where he has amassed ErVaJS5biCLr'iI1n.e. llbrs. J. and J. P. Jackson, brothers, former being the father of our Kas, and fi-gr aiescgnfgsisalblgslliieclwlssssgjmitalsf forf-the Missouri Pacific Railway at Garnett, a few of these as an evidence of the kgmd im If at Kgnsas CIW' MO' I only mention and as the primary reason for her succless? afllhoimdauton on Whlchiu C' 15 builded, quantity. As a result of which five or six .ea ew mohto has been quahty Tamer than ting U' M. C.. on an equal Stalidino with Oyh rs aio w en the standard was raised, put- mation in one year nearly one h s er co eges of the American Medical Asso- f undred men, who sought admission without sufficient

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JABEZ N. JACKSON, A.M., M.D